Conversation: 426-017
Prev: 426-016 Next: 426-018Start Date: 29-Mar-1973 5:35 PM
End Date: 29-Mar-1973 6:24 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On March 29, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:35 pm and 6:24 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 426-017 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 426-17
Date: March 29, 1973
Time: Unknown after 5:35pm - 6:24 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
Watergate
-James W. McCord, Jr.'s testimony
-Ehrlichman's conversation with John W. Dean, III
-Paul L. O'Brien's view of grand jury calling Dean
-White House staff's testimony
-John N. Mitchell
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Ehrlichman
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Loyalty
-Possible statement
-Ervin Committee
-Ronald L. Ziegler
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep.-2010)
Conversation No. 426-17 (cont’d)
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.'s press conference, March 29
-White House
-Los Angeles Times
-Edward J. Gurney's assistant
-Responsibility for Watergate
-Haldeman
-Richard G. Kleindienst and L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Donald H. Segretti
-Rebuttal by Kenneth W. Clawson
-Dean's statement
-Grand jury
-Compared to Ervin Committee
-Effect on Ervin
-Dean statement
-Answer by Ziegler to possible questions regarding illegal action by
White House staff
-Ervin Committee
-Executive privilege
-Limits
-White House options
-Agreement with Ervin
-Testimony of seven defendants before grand jury
-Dean, Charles W. Colson
-Effect of proposed White House statement
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman's statement to publishers
-Evidence
-Ehrlichman's meeting with Gray
-William E. Timmons
-Gray's confirmation
-Timmons's conversation with James O. Eastland
-Gray's conversation with Eastland
-Gray's desire to stay on at Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Materials at FBI
-Gurney's position
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. [?]
-John L. McClellan, Eastland, Robert C. Byrd
-Materials at FBI
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Dean
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep.-2010)
Conversation No. 426-17 (cont’d)
-Gray's confirmation
-Ehrlichman's consultation with Dean
-Need for public confidence in FBI
-Morale in FBI
-Dean
-Gurney
-Timmons
-Elections
-McCord
-Testimony
-Ehrlichman's questions and answers with Chicago Tribune
-Whittaker Chambers
-Alger Hiss
-Possible statement on Watergate, March 30
-Executive privilege
-White House cooperation
-Ziegler’s statement
-FBI
-Grand jury
-Ervin Committee
-Richard A. Moore
-Executive privilege
-White House cooperation
-Ervin Committee
-Reaction to leaks
-White House staff
-Roles
-Timmons, William J. Baroody, Jr., Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Richard ("Dick") Wilson
-News lead
-McCord
-Testimony before Ervin Committee
-Dean
-Possible testimony before grand jury
-Corroboration
-E Howard Hunt, Jr., G. Gordon Liddy, Cubans
-Grand jury
-Mitchell
-Magruder
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep.-2010)
Conversation No. 426-18 (cont’d)
-Colson
-Appearance at National Press Club
-Dean
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming call, March 30
-Gray
-President's schedule
-Ehrlichman
Ehrlichman left at 6:24 pm.