Conversation No. 44-115

Date: April 9, 1973
Time: 7:55 pm-8:07 pm
Location: White House Telephone

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President.

[See also Conversation No. 425-47]

       Watergate
            -Ehrlichman’s meeting with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. and Howard H. Baker, Jr.
                  -Announcement
                  -John W. Dean, III
                        -Leonard Garment meeting with Senate committee counsel
                             -Information compared to executive privilege
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                  Tape Subject Log
                   (rev. Mar.-09)
                                        Conversation No. 44-115 (cont’d)



      -Charges
             -Political espionage
             -Donald H. Segretti
-Scope of committee’s interest
      -Watergate break-in
      -Political espionage
      -Political financing
             -Democrats
      -Baker’s interest
             -Bugging of Nixon airplane in 1968
                    -Need for evidence
                    -William H. Sullivan
-Committee schedule
      -James W. McCord, Jr.
      -Administration’s witnesses
      -Baker’s assistance
-Rules of evidence
      -Hearsay
      -Conduit people
      -Garment’s attendance
-Television [TV] coverage
-White House witnesses
      -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Charles W. Colson, Dean, Dwight L. Chapin
      -Harry S. Dent’s request
             -McCord’s testimony
      -Gordon C. Strachan
-Dean
      -Baker
      -Providing information
      -Presence during Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] interviews
      -FBI reports for Segretti
-Baker’s and Ervin’s desire for secrecy of meeting
      -McCord
      -Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
      -Committee counsel’s press conference
-John D. Ehrlichman’s meeting with Ervin and Baker
      -McCord as witness
             -Threats of press conference
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                NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. Mar.-09)
                                                         Conversation No. 44-115 (cont’d)



                             -Quality
                             -Testimony
                      -Ervin
                             -Assurances
                             -Relationship with Baker
                             -Democrats’ scandals
                -Ehrlichman’s conversation with Baker
                      -Democrats’ political sabotage
                             -Baker’s desire for White House assistance
                             -Henry L. Kimelman
                             -George S. McGovern’s people
                      -Fred D. Thompson’s relationship with Ervin
                -Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Ervin and Baker
                      -Announcement
                -President’s role
                      -Baker’s view
                             -Haldeman and Ehrlichman’s involvement
                                   -Watergate
                             -Ehrlichman’s assurances
                             -Results
                -Charles H. Percy
                      -Statement
                             -Haldeman
                      -Desire for presidential nomination
                      -Illinois
                             -Percy and Adlai E. Stevenson, III
                             -Democratic governor
                             -Future White House actions
                             -Base closings