His novels include the political thrillers The Company and The China Card, but he is better known for his memoir, Witness to Power.  A winner of the Distinguished Flying Cross in World War II who joined a Seattle firm after graduating from Stanford law school, he named his friend Bud Krogh to head a "Special Investigation Unit" within the White House.  His ties to "the Plumbers" were one factor in his April 1973 resignation, and he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for obstruction of justice 
His novels include the political thrillers The Company and The China Card, but he is better known for his memoir, Witness to Power.  A winner of the Distinguished Flying Cross in World War II who joined a Seattle firm after graduating from Stanford law school, he named his friend Bud Krogh to head a "Special Investigation Unit" within the White House.  His ties to "the Plumbers" were one factor in his April 1973 resignation, and he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for obstruction of justice and perjury in 1975, along with John N. Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman.  FTP, name this Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs implicated in the Watergate scandal.
His novels include the political thrillers The Company and The China Card, but he is better known for his memoir, Witness to Power.  
John D(aniel) Ehrlichman