Conversation No. 38-31

Date: April 14, 1973
Time: Unknown between 5:15 pm and 6:08 pm
Location: White House Telephone

John D. Ehrlichman talked with Richard G. Kleindienst.

[See also Conversation No. 428-28C]

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared Richard Nixon’s Special
White House Counsel for Watergate Matters and submitted to the Committee on the Judiciary of
the House of Representatives. This transcript can be found in Submission of Recorded
Presidential Conversations (SRPC), pages 629-638 (1-10). Please refer to the logging below.]

     Golf

     Watergate      

          -Ehrlichman’s investigation          

          -Ehrlichman’s report, April 14, 1973 

                -Hearsay       

                -President’s instructions        

                      -Ehrlichman’s conversations, April 14, 1973
                             -John N. Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder
                             -Magruder’s conversation with US Attorney
                                   -Previous grand jury testimony
                                   -Mitchell
                             -Perjury and conspiracy cases
                      -Ehrlichman’s conversation with Mitchell
                      -Ehrlichman’s conversation with Magruder
                             -John W. Dean, III’s advice to Committee to Re-elect the President
                             [CRP] staff concerning grand jury’s actions
                             -Earl J. Silbert’s statement concerning
                             Dean’s source
                      -Henry Petersen          

                -Joseph T. Sneed’s role in Watergate 

          -Possible special counsel        

                -Warren E. Burger and William P. Rogers 

          -Ehrlichman’s investigation          

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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                       Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. January-2011)

                                                              Conversation No. 38-31 (cont’d)

                 -Ehrlichman’s legal position    

                 -Extent      

                 -Evidence of violation of law 

                       -Petersen’s advice
                 -Magruder’s possible testimony
                       -Dean, Frederick LaRue, Robert Mardian and Herbert L. (“Bart”) Porter
                       -Mardian
                       -LaRue
                 -Motivation       

                 -Birnbaum and Sears         


     Ehrlichman’s schedule      

           -Meeting with Kleindienst and Petersen 

           -White House correspondents’ dinner