Conversation: 038-048
Prev: 038-047 Next: 038-049Start Date: Sunday, April 15, 1973 9:00 PM
End Date: Sunday, April 15, 1973 10:15 PM
Participants:
Petersen, Henry E.; White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Shaffer, Charles N.; Silbert, Earl J.Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On April 15, 1973, Henry E. Petersen, White House operator, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles N. Shaffer, and Earl J. Silbert talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 5:15 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 038-048 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 38-48
Date: April 15, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:00 pm and 5:15 pm
Location: White House Telephone
Henry E. Petersen talked with the White House operator. The President can be heard in the
background.
Telephone call
-Placement
Justice Department
-Hard Work
Petersen talked with Charles N. Shaffer at an unknown time.
Greetings
Peterson talked with Earl J. Silbert at an unknown time.
Watergate
-Shaffer presentation
-John W. Dean, III’s possible testimony
-Culpability of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Flight
-Funds for defendants
-Haldeman order to Dean
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 38-48 (cont’d)
-Gordon C. Strachan’s testimony
-Veracity
-Dean’s story
-Frederick C. LaRue
-Haldeman’s orders
Silbert’s schedule
-Rockville, Maryland
-Seymour Glanzer
-Don [last name unknown]
-Directions to Petersen’s house
-Shaffer