Conversation: 040-020
Prev: 040-019 Next: 040-021Start Date: 11-Jun-1973 9:07 PM
End Date: 11-Jun-1973 9:23 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Buzhardt, J. Fred, Jr.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On June 11, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. talked on the telephone from 9:07 pm to 9:23 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 040-020 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 40-20
Date: June 11, 1973
Time: 9:07 pm - 9:23 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
Watergate
-Buzhardt’s meeting with Fred D. Thompson
-Cross-examinations
-John W. Dean, III
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-20 (cont’d)
-June 15 appearance in private session
-Thompson’s preparation
-Another meeting with Buzhardt
-Use immunity
-Archibald Cox
-Testimony
-Date
-Leaks
-Thompson’s cooperation with White House
-Knowledge of Dean’s role
-Investigation of Democrats
-Buzhardt’s cooperation
-Financing
-Timing
-Dean
-Information on testimony
-Conversation with Samuel Dash
-Forthcoming Grand Jury testimony
-Cox
-Subpoena
-Dean’s response
-Dean
-Letter from Harold Titus, May 22
-Immunity
-Buzhardt’s meeting with Henry E. Petersen
-Memorandum
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr. documents given to L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Petersen’s knowledge of Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Earl J. Silbert’s previous conversation with Dean
-President’s information
-Dean’s information
-Immunity
-Date
-Hunt
-Dean
-Possible compromise of Grand Jury testimony
-Conversations with President
-Contradiction
-Cox
-Jurisdiction
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-20 (cont’d)
-Relationship with Kennedy’s
-Possible subpoena of Petersen
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] interview of Petersen
-Peterson’s response
-Petersen’s conversations with President
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Possible immunity
-Cox
-Relationships with Petersen and prosecutors
-Titus
-Knowledge
-Dean
-Ehrlichman
-Reaction to subpoena of Maurice H. Stans in summer 1972
-Relations with prosecutors and Cox
-Compared to Haldeman and Dean
-Dean’s actions
-Ehrlichman
-Buzhardt’s meeting with Thompson
-Thompson’s role in hearings
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr., Dash
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Possible actions
-Lowell P. Weicker
-Staff member
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[Privacy]
[Duration: 2 s ]
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Watergate
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-20 (cont’d)
-Chronology of President’s conversations with Dean
-Dean
-Possible Ervin Committee appearance, June 15
-Use immunity
-Contempt charges
-Forthcoming Grand Jury appearance
-Ervin Committee
-Witness schedule
-Herbert L. Porter
-Stans
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Dean
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Thompson
-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Relationship with Dash
-Ervin Committee
-Relations between Democratic and Republican members
-Edward J. Gurney
-Thompson
-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Testimony of Dean, Charles W. Colson, Haldeman, and
Ehrlichman
-TV coverage
-Length of hearings
-Focus on Democrats finances
-Cooperation of Buzhardt