Conversation: 328-023
Prev: 328-022 Next: 328-024Start Date: 29-Mar-1972 4:00 PM
End Date: 29-Mar-1972 4:48 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); White House operator; Kleindienst, Richard G.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:09:50
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:44:57
NARA Description:
On March 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, and Richard G. Kleindienst met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:00 pm to 4:48 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 328-023 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 328-23
Date: March 29, 1972
Time: 4:00 pm - 4:48 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell
-Robert C. Mardian
-Wallace Johnson
-ITT lawyer
-An affidavit
-Edwin Reinecke
-Indictment of Mitchell
-Johnson
-A lawyer’s testimony
-James O. Eastland
-Call to Mardian
-Hearings
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-Termination of hearings
-Witnesses
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-ITT lawyer
-Harold S. Geneen
-Current strategy
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Postponement
-Problems
-Eastland’s weaknesses
-Hugh Scott
-Clark MacGregor’s analysis
-Scott, Charles McC Mathias, Jr.
-Roman L. Hruska and Edward J. Gurney
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Marlow W. Cook
-Charles W. Colson’s view
-Kleindienst
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Options
-Floor vote to recommit
-Committee vote
-Kleindienst
-Withdrawal of nomination
-Statement
-Timing
-Colson’s strategy
-John V. Tunney, Edward M. Kennedy
-Press
-Life magazine charges
-Herbert G. Klein
-Severance of issue
-Problems
-Goals of strategy
-Hearings
-Mitchell
-Eastland
-ITT lawyer
-Testimony
-Reinecke
-Affidavit
-Amount
-Dita D. Beard
-Kennedy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 328-23 (cont.)
-Harold S. Geneen
-Testimony
-Flanigan
-Role in case
-Testimony
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s committee
-Ervin’s aims
-Executive privilege
-Meeting
-Arrangements
-Letter to Hruska
-Explanation
-Ervin’s rejection
-MacGregor’s negotiations
-Ervin
-Executive privilege
-Investigation
-Political motives
-Colson and MacGregor
-Eastland
-Relationship with Mitchell
-Mitchell and Mardian
-Concern over Kleindienst
-Hearings
-Mitchell’s views
-Problems
-Mitchell’s role
-Call to Mathias
-Scott
-Severance of issue
-Problems
-Gurney’s views
-Termination
-Executive session
-Geneen
-Eastland
-Kleindienst
-Failure of confirmation
-Political implications
-John B. Connally’s views
-Withdrawal of nomination
24
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 328-23 (cont.)
-Problems
-Colson’s view
-Handling
-Committee hearings
-Kleindienst’s statement
-Filibuster
-Circumstances
-Likelihood
-Votes to confirm
-Hearings
-Termination
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Reopening
-Filibuster
-Democratic strategy
-Eastland
-Mansfield
-Removal from political campaign
-Handling
-Colson’s view
-Need to act
-Timing
-Strategy
-Timing
-Hearings
-Reopening
-Mitchell
-Handling of confirmation
-Dealings with the White House
-Bryce N. Harlow
-John D. Ehrlichman
-MacGregor
-Meeting with President
-Discussion
-Haldeman
-Withdrawal of nomination
-Colson’s view
-Meeting
-MacGregor
-Ehrlichman
-Colson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 328-23 (cont.)
-Call to Kleindienst
-Meeting with the President and Haldeman
-Place
Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:48
pm.
[Conversation No. 328-23A]
[See Conversation No. 22-46]
[End of telephone conversation]
ITT case
-Hearings
-Kleindienst
[Haldeman talked with Kleindienst at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:48 pm]
[Conversation No. 328-23B]
[See Conversation No. 22-46]
[End of telephone conversation]
Forthcoming meeting with Kleindienst
-Entrance
-Walk to the White House
-Haldeman’s call
-Kleindiensts’s reaction
The President and Haldeman left at 4:48 pm.