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Start Date: 29-Mar-1973 2:46 PM

End Date: 29-Mar-1973 3:01 PM

Participants:

Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")White House operator

Recording Device: White House Telephone

044-069.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 29, 1973, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:46 pm and 3:01 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 044-069 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 44-69

Date: March 29, 1973
Time: Unknown between 2:46 pm and 3:30 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Haldeman conferred with Ronald L. Ziegler at an unknown time between 3:01 and 3:30 pm. The
President can be heard in the background.

       John W. Dean, III
            -Grand jury testimony

[See Conversation No. 426-4]

[End conferral]

Haldeman talked with Dean at an unknown time. The President, John D. Ehrlichman, and Ziegler
can be heard in the background.

       Press statement
             -Ehrlichman’s draft
                   -Wording

       Watergate
            -Richard A. Moore
                  -Conversation with John N. Mitchell
                        -Endorsement
                               -Ziegler
            -Mitchell
                  -Conversation with Haldeman
                        -Criticism of Senate
            -Jeb Stuart Magruder
                  -Attorney
                        -James Bierbower
            -Dean

Ehrlichman talked with Dean at an unknown time.
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Mar.-09)
                                                               Conversation No. 44-69 (cont’d)




       Ziegler’s forthcoming statement
             -Dean
                   -Charges before Senate
                         -Advance knowledge of break-in
                   -Request to testify before grand jury
                   -Waiver of executive privilege
                   -President’s view
                         -Grand jury
             -Privilege
                   -Executive
                         -White House staff
                   -Attorney-client
                         -White House staff
             -Strength of language
             -Moore
                   -Mitchell’s reaction
                   -Magruder