Conversation No. 38-129

Date: April 20, 1973
Time: 11:32 am - 11:40 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry E. Petersen.

[See also Conversation No. 903-11]

     Watergate      

          -Ronald L. Ziegler’s statement to press 

                -Petersen’s conversations with President concerning grand jury 

          -John N. Mitchell        

                -Grand jury testimony        

          -Need to accelerate Grand jury’s activities
                -Statements by Jeb Stuart Magruder and John W. Dean, III
                -Problems
          -Mitchell’s testimony before grand jury
          -Lie detector tests      

                -Magruder        

                -Gordon C. Strachan        

                -Dean        

                      -Status of negotiations
          -Dean
                -Distinction between roles as counsel and as conspirator
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. January-2011)

                                                           Conversation No. 38-129 (cont’d)

                 -Disclosure of information
                 -Possible legal culpability    

           -Executive privilege       

           -Petersen’s conversation with Richard G. Kleindienst 

                 -Magruder’s departure from Commerce Department
                       -Resignation
                       -Suspension
                       -Compared with Dean and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
           -President’s schedule        

           -Cooperation by White House staff