Conversation: 045-027
Prev: 045-026 Next: 045-028Start Date: 26-Apr-1973 7:44 PM
End Date: 26-Apr-1973 8:02 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kleindienst, Richard G.; Petersen, Henry E.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On April 26, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Richard G. Kleindienst, and Henry E. Petersen talked on the telephone from 7:44 pm to 8:02 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-027 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 45-27
Date: April 26, 1973
Time: 7:44 pm - 8:02 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Richard G. Kleindienst.
[See also Conversation 431-9R]
Watergate
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Meeting with Kleindienst and Henry E. Petersen
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman and John W. Dean, III concerning E.
Howard Hunt, Jr.’s documents
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 45-27 (cont’d)
-Dean’s description of documents
-Leaks from Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Destruction of documents
-Inference from Dean’s remarks
-Possible Grand Jury testimony
-Ability to function
-Possible resignation
-Dean
-Immunity
-Subornation to perjury
-Gray
Petersen
-Conversation with President
-Ehrlichman’s orders
-Relations with Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s call to Petersen concerning investigation
-Gray
-Possible resignation
-Dean’s instructions concerning Hunt documents
-Possible testimony concerning documents
Kleindienst conferred with Petersen at an unknown time between 7:44 pm and 8:02 pm.
[Begin conferral]
Watergate
-Gray
-Possibility of indictment
[End conferral]
Watergate
-Gray
-Term in office
-President’s instructions for Petersen
-Dean
-Source of New York Times story
-Immunity
-Effect of possible testimony
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 45-27 (cont’d)
-John N. Mitchell, President, Gray, Petersen, Kleindienst
-Meetings with President concerning Watergate
-Conversations with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Gray
-Term in office
-Possible statement
-Grand Jury