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twist slowly, slowly in the wind. President Richard Nixon’s assistant for domestic affairs, John D. Ehrlichman, coined this expression on March 8, 1973, while on the phone with presi- dential counsel John Dean discussing the withdrawal of Patrick Gray’s nomination for director of the F. B. I. Gray had not been told about the withdrawal and was waiting for his appointment. “I think we ought to let him hang there,” Ehrlichman said. “Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.” |