Conversation: 421-008
Prev: 421-007 Next: 421-009Start Date: 21-Mar-1973 3:05 PM
End Date: 21-Mar-1973 3:45 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On March 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:05 pm to 3:45 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 421-008 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 421-8
Date: March 21, 1973
Time: 3:05 pm-3:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
John N. Mitchell
-Meeting with President
-Trip to Washington
Haldeman’s meeting with John D. Ehrlichman and John W. Dean, III
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:05 pm.
Request for pencil
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.
Col. Robert J. Flynn
-Illness
-Prisoner of war [POW] dinner announcement
-Importance
-Mitchell
-Briefing for POWs
-Reaction to Haldeman's call
-Briefing by President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 421-8 (cont’d)
-Briefing by President on foreign policy
-Henry A. Kissinger, William P. Rogers
-Vietnam
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-President's schedule
President’s schedule
-William R. Tolbert, Jr.
-Suleiman Franjieh
-Lebanon
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Kakeui Tanaka
-Dinner
-California
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito’s visit
-Europe [?]
-Thailand
-Organization of American States [OAS] reception
-Latin America
-President’s attention
-Stephen B. Bull
Haldeman’s schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Dinner
-Rogers [?]
-Cabinet
Watergate
-Haldeman’s forthcoming meeting
-Ehrlichman and Dean
-Dean’s workload
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr., G. Gordon Liddy
-Money
-Watergate burglars
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Frederick C. LaRue
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 421-8 (cont’d)
-Aid for Haldeman
-Pressure on Mitchell
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Mitchell
[Unintelligible]
-Money for defendants
-Dean
-Cubans
[Unintelligible]
-Administration’s strategy
-Money
-Channeling to defendants
-LaRue
-Charles W. Colson
-Hunt
-Ehrlichman
-Ideas on strategy
-Sense of concern about Watergate
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Knowledge of Cubans
-William C. Sullivan
-White House staff
-Testimony before grand jury
-Guidelines
-Legal advice
-Criminal charges
-An attorney
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Liddy
-Testimony
-Hunt
-Ehrlichman and Krogh
-Discussions of Watergate
-Colson
-Hunt
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 421-8 (cont’d)
-Involvement in Watergate
-Colson
-Campaign practices
-Liddy
-Source of orders
-Testimony
-Knowledge
-Colson
-Dean’s statement to President
-Call to Magruder
-Pressure for information
-Intelligence operations
-Haldeman pressure on Magruder
-Legitimate activities
-Open recording of Democratic public statements
-Purpose
-Legitimacy
-Schedule information on opponents
-Sources
-News reports
-Grand jury
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:05 pm and 3:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 421-8A]
Request for call to unknown person
[End of telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Henry E. Petersen
-Grand jury
-Questions
-Subpoenas
-Files
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Sullivan
-Strategy for administration
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 421-8 (cont’d)
-Handling grand jury
[Unintelligible]
-Statements for Senate committee
-Use of executive privilege
-Question of potential guilt
-Sherman Adams
-Problem of grand jury
-Alger Hiss case
-Court decisions
-Press
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Hostility to President
-Grand jury
-Limitations
-Contrast with Senate committee
-Special prosecutor
-Appointment
-Tom C. Clark
-Grand jury
-Handling
Next meeting with Haldeman
-Time
Haldeman left at 3:45 pm.