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Start Date: 28-Mar-1973 8:50 PM

End Date: 28-Mar-1973 9:09 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: White House Telephone

044-061.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:50 pm and 9:09 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 044-061 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 44-61

Date: March 28, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:50 pm and 9:09 pm
Location: White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the President.

[See also Conversation No. 425-26]

       Watergate
            -E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
                  -Grand jury appearance
                       -Immunity
                  -James W. McCord, Jr.
                       -John J. Sirica
                       -Subpoena for grand jury
                             -Effect on information for White House
            -Hunt
                  -Lawyer’s report to Paul L. O’Brien
                  -Grand jury’s offer of immunity
            -George D. Webster’s call to John W. Dean, III
                  -Meeting with Howard H. Baker, Jr.’s assistant, Hugh Branson
                       -Baker’s desire for liaison with White House
                             -Richard G. Kleindienst
                             -Murray M. Chotiner
                             -Webster
                                    -William E. Timmons’ call to Branson
                                -40-

      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                         Tape Subject Log
                          (rev. Mar.-09)
                                                  Conversation No. 44-61 (cont’d)



-Dean
      -John N. Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder
      -Need for criminal lawyer
            -Hiring by Dean
            -Dissemination of information
      -Mitchell
            -New York grand jury
            -Diary showing meetings
-Story
      -White House staff involvement after break-in
      -Hunt’s testimony
      -McCord’s knowledge
-Timmons
      -Webster
-Dean
      -Mitchell’s story
            -Meetings
            -Dean’s story
      -Prior knowledge
      -Magruder
      -Mitchell
      -Plea
      -Executive privilege
      -Mitchell and Magruder
            -McCord’s possible knowledge
                  -G. Gordon Liddy
                  -Preparations for Mitchell meeting
            -Approval of plan
-Mitchell
      -Martha (Beall) Mitchell’s call to the New York Times
            -Allegations
                  -Target
            -McCord
            -Target of allegations
                  -Magruder
            -Mitchell’s reaction
            -Herbert W. Kalmbach
                  -Hospitalization of Martha Mitchell
                                             -41-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Mar.-09)
                                                         Conversation No. 44-61 (cont’d)



                  -Magruder
                  -Approval of Liddy’s plan
             -Dean
                  -Criminal lawyer
                        -Possibilities
                  -Support from President
                  -Necessity of testimony
                        -Fifth Amendment
                        -Firing
                  -Testimony
                        -Fifth Amendment
                        -Lawyer-client relationship
                  -Haldeman
                  -McCord
                        -Grand jury
                        -Sirica
                        -Ervin Committee
             -Charles W. Colson