Conversation: 433-038
Prev: 433-037 Next: 433-039Start Date: 1-May-1973 5:55 PM
End Date: 1-May-1973 6:24 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Klein, Herbert G.; Lewis, Hobart D.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On May 1, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Herbert G. Klein, and Hobart D. Lewis met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:55 pm to 6:24 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 433-038 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 433-38
Date: May 1, 1973
Time: 5:55 pm - 6:24 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Herbert G. Klein.
Watergate
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. November-2012)
Conversation No. 433-38 (cont’d)
-Klein’s possible response to questions
-Status of case
-Elliot L. Richardson
-John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John W. Dean, III and John N. Mitchell
Klein’s term of service
The President talked with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis between 5:57 pm and 5:58 pm.
[Conversation No. 433-38A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 45-102]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Klein
-Role with administration
-Knowledge of Watergate
-Compared with President
-Charles W. Colson
-Role in Watergate defense
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, and Mitchell
-Mitchell
-Role in Watergate
-Possible immunity
-Richardson
-Klein
-Role with administration
-Possible conversations
-Leaks
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] agents outside the offices of
Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-President’s reaction
-Leonard Garment
-Ownership of files
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 433-38 (cont’d)
Cabinet meeting
-Anne L. Armstrong
-George H. W. Bush
-William P. Rogers
-Armstrong, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Panel
Watergate
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell
-President’s statement
-Klein’s conversation with Colson
Klein’s future job at Metromedia
-Compensation
-John Kluge
-Abilities
-Success
-Company’s plans and finances
-Ross Baerd [?]
-Foster and Kleiser Outdoor Advertising
-Direct mail operation
-Television [TV] and radio stations
-California
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Robert H. Finch
-Klein’s assistance
-Political plans
-Senate
-Personality
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. November-2012)
Conversation No. 433-38 (cont’d)
Klein
-Possible term in office
Watergate
-Duration
-Ervin Committee
-Departures of Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-President’s role
-President’s previous speech, April 30
-Finch’s conversation with Klein
-Ted Stevens’s conversation with Klein
-Charles H. Percy
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Watergate
-Charles H. Percy
-Political future
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Watergate
-Charles H. Percy
-Special Prosecutor
-Richardson
-Edward W. Brooke’s statements
-James L. Buckley’s statements
-President’s personnel actions
-President’s previous speech, April 30
-Reactions of Pete Wilson and wife
-Telephone calls to Klein by unknown persons
-President’s investigation
-Test of friendship
-President’s previous speech, April 30
-Reaction of Ernie [?] [last name unknown]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 433-38 (cont’d)
Klein
-Term in office
Watergate
-President’s actions
-Klein’s position
-President’s instructions to Spiro T. Agnew
-Previous Cabinet meeting
-Percy
-Klein
-Possible actions
-Forthcoming press briefing, May 2
-Compared with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Judgment
-Unknown man’s forthcoming statement
-Compared with International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
White House staff
-Klein’s conversation with Rose Mary Woods
-Youth
-Klein’s role
-Cabinet
-Stephen B. Bull, David Parker, Leonard Garment and Peter M. Flanigan
-Possible meeting with Klein
-Need for leadership
-Morale
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-President’s 1952 Fund Speech
-Klein’s campaign work
Watergate
-Cover-up
-Mitchell
Press relations
-Klein’s role
-Forthcoming press briefing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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Conversation No. 433-38 (cont’d)
-President’s speeches
-Klein
-Possible conversation with Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White
-Rogers
Klein
-Future
-Wealth
-Possible role
-Assistance to Finch
-California
-Press relations
-Schedule
-Ziegler
-Mood
Watergate
-President’s actions
Marjorie G. Klein
Klein left at an unknown time before 6:24 pm.
Klein entered at an unknown time after 5:58 pm.
Klein’s call to Haldeman
-President’s reaction to FBI agents guarding Haldeman’s office
-President’s statement to Cabinet
-Roy L. Ash and Earl L. Butz
-Cabinet
-Feelings toward Haldeman and Ehrlichman
Klein left at 6:24 pm.
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