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Start Date: 3-Jun-1973 10:48 AM

End Date: 3-Jun-1973 11:07 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Colson, Charles W.

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

168-028.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 3, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:48 am to 11:07 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 168-028 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 168-28

Date: June 3, 1973
Time: 10:48 am - 11:07 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

     Watergate     

          -White House response        

               -Ronald L. Ziegler, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. 

                     -John W. Dean, III      


     Watergate     

          -Dean      

               -Statement concerning contacts with President
                     -New York Times, Washington Post
                     -Cover-up
                     -White House response
               -Contacts with President
                     -February 27, 1973 with Richard A. Moore
                     -February 27 - March 15, 1973
                                -28-

       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                         Tape Subject Log
                         (rev. March-2011)

                                                Conversation No. 168-28 (cont’d)

            -Executive privilege
                    -March 12, 1973 order        

      -Telephone call to Colson concerning executive privilege order 

      -Motive         

-Colson
      -Forthcoming interviews
      -Howard K. Smith
      -New York Times
      -Timing
-Ervin Committee hearings
      -Sally Harmony, G[eorge] Gordon Liddy’s secretary
      -Whtie House response
-Dean
      -Strategy
      -Prosecutors’ statements
      -Expectations concerning revelation of Huston plan
      -Statement concerning meetings with President
            -New York Times, Washington Post, television [TV] networks
      -Contacts with President
            -January 1973, February 1973
      -Role       

            -Knowledge of break-in          

            -Jeb Stuart Magruder’s perjury           

            -Clemency offer         

            -L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III        

            -Cover-up        

      -Contacts with President
            -Funds for defendants        

                    -E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s attorney    

                    -Meeting with President        

            -White House involvement
                    -John N. Mitchell      

      -Possible immunity         

      -Role       

      -Conversations with White House staff 

            -Colson        

                    -White House staff involvement      

                    -Denials      

-President’s attention
      -Vietnam
                                 -29-

       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                          Tape Subject Log
                          (rev. March-2011)

                                                 Conversation No. 168-28 (cont’d)

      -November 1972 - January 1973
      -Mitchell
-Washington Post, New York Times, TV networks
-Washington Post
      -Compared to New York Times

      -Story concerning President’s possible Grand Jury appearance 

      -Possible White House response           

-Press coverage
      -Dean’s statement
            -Timing        

                   -President’s schedule         

                   -Erving Committee hearings      

                   -Popular opinion          

-News cycles
      -Ervin Committee hearings
-Dean
      -Contacts with President           

            -President’s will        

            -September 15, 1972            

                   -Indictments of burglars
      -Credibility       

            -Gary’s statement          

            -Jack N. Anderson column concerning former law practice 

            -Press treatment       

      -White House response
            -Ziegler’s view
      -Possible treatment by liberals
            -Compared to James W. McCord, Jr.
                   -Gerald Alch
      -White House response
            -Immunity
-Colson’s forthcoming interviews
      -Colson’s meetings with President
            -President’s knowledge
      -President’s investigation
-Dean
      -White House response
      -New York Times, Washingtin Post
            -Ziegler’s report
-Press coverage
                                               -30-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. March-2011)

                                                            Conversation No. 168-28 (cont’d)

                -Dean’s statement      

           -Popular opinion     

           -Dean       

                -Statements concerning contacts with President
                      -Popular opinion