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Conversation: 045-005

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Start Date: 26-Apr-1973 12:23 PM

End Date: 26-Apr-1973 12:32 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: White House Telephone

045-005.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 26, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Richard G. Kleindienst talked on the telephone from 12:23 pm to 12:32 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-005 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 45-5

Date: April 26, 1973
Time: 12:23 pm - 12:32 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Richard G. Kleindienst.

[See also Conversation No. 905-19]

     Watergate
          -Daniel Ellsberg case       

               -Telephone call to President         

               -Possible actions in court       

               -Administration responsibility         

               -Government’s disclosure           

               -Break-in of psychiatrist      

                      -Responsibility
                      -Authorization
                            -J. Edgar Hoover
                            -John N. Mitchell’s defense
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. October-2012)

                                                               Conversation No. 45-5 (cont’d)

                             -John W. Dean, III
           -Dean      

                -Motives       

                -Immunity        

                -Conversation with Jeb Stuart Magruder 

                -Conversation with President       

                      -Funds
                -John D. Ehrlichman
                -Ronald L. Ziegler’s view concerning credibility
                -Credibility
                -Conversations
                      -Kleindienst, Henry E. Petersen
                      -President
                -Immunity
                      -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Ehrlichman
                      -President’s conversations with Peterson
                      -Use compared to transactional immunity
                      -Subornation of perjury
                -Forthcoming meeting with Petersen
                -Motives
                -Advantages to President
                -Conversation with President, March 21, 1973
                      -E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s demand for money
                      -President’s reaction
                -Immunity
                      -Dean’s possible reaction
                -Possible statements
                      -Credibility