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Conversation: 045-003

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Start Date: 26-Apr-1973 12:16 PM

End Date: 26-Apr-1973 12:21 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kleindienst, Richard G.

Recording Device: White House Telephone

045-003.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 26, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Richard G. Kleindienst talked on the telephone from 12:16 pm to 12:21 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 45-3

Date: April 26, 1973
Time: 12:16 pm - 12:21 pm

Location: White House Telephone 


The President talked with Richard G. Kleindienst.


[See also Conversation No. 905-17] 

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             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                              (rev. October-2012)

                                                        Conversation No. 45-3 (cont’d)


Tax legislation
      -Meeting
      -House Ways and Means Committee
      -President’s schooling

Watergate
     -Kleindienst’s conversations with Henry E. Petersen and Kevin T. Maroney
      concerning Ellsberg break-in 

           -Petersen’s and Maroney’s conversation with David R. Nissen 

           -Presentation to Judge      

           -Prosecutor’s knowledge       

           -Brady case, Supreme Court case 


Wounded Knee incident
    -Need for decision
          -President’s meeting with Kleindienst
    -John C. Whitaker, Leonard Garment, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
          -Interior Department, Justice Department   

    -Law enforcement problems          

    -Possible response        

    -President’s meeting with Kleindienst 

          -Bureau of Indian Affairs        

          -Preliminary materials       

                 -Cole      

    -Loss of life      

          -Justice Department’s plan         

                 -Defense Department          

                       -Use of gas       

    -Theft of weapons from Denver depot 

    -Public involvement         

          -Students       

    -Activists’ weakness         

    -Letter from George S. McGovern 

          -Support for action      

          -South Dakota         

          -Cole      

    -President’s meeting with Kleindienst 

          -Stephen B. Bull

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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. October-2012)