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Conversation: 164-021

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Start Date: 28-Apr-1973 6:33 PM

End Date: 28-Apr-1973 6:54 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ehrlichman, John D.

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

164-021.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 6:33 pm and 6:54 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 164-021 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 164-21

Date: April 28, 1973
Time: Unknown between 6:33 pm and 6:54 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

     Watergate      

          -President’s meeting with William P. Rogers 

                -John W. Dean, III
                      -Rules during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
                      -Voluntary testimony
                             -Immunity
          -Dean       

                -Statements to press        

                -Possible testimony        

                      -Subornation of perjury      

                             -Leonard Garment        

                -Voluntary testimony          

          -Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s schedule 

                -Meeting with President         

          -President’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler 

                -News stories concerning plumbers        

          -Plumbers        

                -Responsibility       

                      -Dean       

                      -Ehrlichman        

          -Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. and David R. Young, Jr. 

          -Purpose       

          -Electronic surveillance      

                -White House        

                -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] 

                                       -17-

             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. March-2011)

                                                        Conversation No. 164-21 (cont’d)

     -E. Howard Hunt, Jr. 

           -Contact with Ehrlichman       

           -G[eorge] Gordon Liddy       

     -Ehrlichman’s action
           -Conversation with Krogh or Young 

     -Results     

     -Ehrlichman’s action      


Prayers

Watergate
     -President’s conversation with Rogers 

           -Richard G. Kleindienst       

           -Rogers’s relationship with President        

           -Attorney General          

     -President’s forthcoming speech         

           -Haldeman and Ehrlichman            

           -Attorney General          

     -Rogers’s forthcoming phone call
     -Ehrlichman’s conference with attorneys 

           -Statements by Ehrlichman and Haldeman 

           -Possible statement by President        

     -Ehrlichman        

           -1972 campaign           

           -Telephone call to Herbert W. Kalmbach 

           -Cover-up        

           -Hunt’s papers        

                 -L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s actions     

                 -Fred F. Fielding’s knowledge        

                 -Plumbers         

                 -Dean’s knowledge         

     -Dean’s role in White House
     -Hunt’s papers
           -Henry E. Petersen’s knowledge
           -President’s conversation with Petersen concerning national security
                 -Illegal operations
                                           -18-


                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                    Tape Subject Log 

                                    (rev. March-2011)

                                                           Conversation No. 164-21 (cont’d)

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 

[National security]

[Duration: 9 s ] 


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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    Watergate
         -Hunt’s papers
              -President’s conversation with Petersen concerning national security
                     -White House
         -Hunt’s false cable concerning Ngo Diem
              -President’s conversation with Ziegler
              -Charles W. Colson’s involvement
              -Ehrlichman’s knowlege
              -John F. Kennedy
              -Ehrlichmas and Young’s study of Bay of Pigs
              -Colson’s involvement
                     -Conversation with Ehrlichman
              -Use
              -Ehrlichman’s conversation with Colson
              -President’s knowledge
              -Ehrlichman’s story for Life
              -Ehrlichman’s knowledge
              -President’s knowledge
              -Ehrlichman’s knowledge
                     -Colson
              -President’s knowledge
              -Life story
              -Television [TV] network interview
              -Use
         -Hunt-Colson operations
         -Colson
              -Conversations with President concerning Hunt
                     -Timing
                                            -19-


                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. March-2011)

                                                              Conversation No. 164-21 (cont’d)

                       -Lucien E. Conein       

                 -Statements on relationship with Hunt 

           -President’s forthcoming speech       

                 -Timing        

                 -Length         

           -Leave of absence         

                 -Ehrlichman’s conversation with Haldeman         

           -Ehrlichman        

                 -Separability from Haldeman        

                 -Gray and Hunt’s files      

                 -President’s conversation with Rogers    

           -President’s information from Petersen 

                 -Grand Jury         

                       -Fred C LaRue       

           -John J. Wilson         

           -Leave of absence