Conversation: 433-067
Prev: 433-066 Next: 433-068Start Date: 8-May-1973 3:00 PM
End Date: 8-May-1973 4:27 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Moore, Richard A.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On May 8, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Richard A. Moore met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:00 pm to 4:27 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 433-067 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 433-67
Date: May 8, 1973
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:27 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Richard A. Moore.
Wedding
-President’s telegram
-Moore’s son
-Moore’s daughter
-Yale University graduation
-Intelligence
Watergate
-Moore and President
-Henry E. Petersen
-Conversation with President
-Moore
-Cover-up
-John W. Dean, III’s conversation with President, March 21
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s lawyer, William O. Bittman
-President’s reaction
-Dean
-Motivations
-Fear of prison
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 433-67 (cont’d)
-Compared to Jeb Stuart Magruder
-La Costa meeting
-Dean, John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, and Moore
-President’s knowledge
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-Dean report
-President’s knowledge
-Herbert W. Kalmbach and $350,000
-President’s meeting with Dean, March 21
-Funds
-Clemency
-Duration
-President’s meeting with Moore
-Dean
-Ronald L. Ziegler and Dean, ca. March 12
-Cover-up
-Separation of powers
-Press conference
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce appointment
-Meeting with Dean, March 20
-William C. Sullivan
-Challenge to Senators
-Possible statement by President
-President’s motives and knowledge
-President’s statements to Dean
-Moore’s opinion
-Moore’s conversation with Dean, March 20
-President’s knowledge
-President’s meeting with Dean and Moore, March 20
-Executive privilege
-John N. Mitchell
-Moore’s conversation with Dean
-Mitchell
-Previous meeting with President
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-President’s knowledge
-Dean’s call to Moore
-President’s call to Dean
-Dean’s forthcoming meeting with President
-President’s meeting with Dean and Haldeman, March 21
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 433-67 (cont’d)
-Bittman
-Dean’s meeting with Moore, March 21
-Dean’s previous meeting with President
-Dean
-Documentary evidence
-Presidency
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-Donald H. Segretti
-Haldeman
-Clemency
-President’s discussions with Ehrlichman
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Sullivan
-Timing of request, July 1972
-Dorothy Hunt
-Death
-1972 election
-Colson and Ehrlichman
-President’s discussions with Ehrlichman
-Hunt
-President’s conversation with Colson
-Hunt
-Dorothy Hunt’s death
-Dean
-Newsweek article
-Conversations with Ziegler
-Conversations with President
-President’s press conference, August 19, 1972
-Documents
-Preparation for Magruder’s testimony
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman
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[Statute]
[Duration: 28 s ]
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Conversation No. 433-67 (cont’d)
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Watergate
-Moore’s meeting with prosecutors
-Dean’s meeting with Magruder
-La Costa meeting
-Prosecutors’ knowledge
-La Costa meeting, February 1973
-Statement for President
-Forthcoming Senate hearings
-Committee to Reelect the President [CRP]
-Mitchell
-Conduct
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Dean’s statements regarding lawsuits
-Need for money
-Sullivan
-Moore’s lawyer’s conversation with John J. Wilson and Frank H. Strickler
-Moore, Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Magruder
-Paul L. O’Brien and Kenneth W. Parkinson
-Bittman
-Conversation with President, March 21
-$350,000
-Conversation with Moore, April 1973
-$350,000
-Garment, April 9 and Horace Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose, April 12
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Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 433-67 (cont’d)
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Watergate
-Moore’s meeting with Rose, April 8
-$350,000
-Frederick C. LaRue
-Dean’s previous conversation with Moore
-Dean’s conversation with President, March 21
-$350,000
-Bittman
-$350,000
-Legal opinion regarding intent
-Rose
-Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Kalmbach
-Intent in raising money
-Possible trials
-Mitchell
-La Costa meetings
-Moore’s reaction to break-in
-President’s reaction to break-in
-Cubans
-Democratic Party
-Recognition of Castro
-Mitchell’s call, June 18, 1972
-Magruder, Cliff Miller
-Watergate break-in
-Associated Press [AP] story
-CRP involvement
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Private agency
-Moore’s conversation with prosecutors
-Moore’s knowledge
-Mitchell’s diary
-Maurice H. Stans’s concern, Septmeber 1972
-Mexican money
-Moore’s meeting with Mitchell, LaRue, Robert T. Mardian, Dean, Parkinson,
Miller, and Paul L. O’Brien
-Public relations
-Lawrence F. O’Brien’s suit
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 433-67 (cont’d)
-Powell, Moore
-Subsequent meetings
-Patman Committee
-George S. McGovern
-Frank E. Moss
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Compared with Ehrlichman, Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr., and Hunt situation
-Dr. Lewis Fielding break-in
-President’s knowledge and activities
-Magruder, Mitchell
-Moore’s contacts with Mitchell
-Administration task force to respond to Senate
-Dean
-Wallace Johnson
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-William E. Timmons
-Ehrlichman
-Magruder
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-Moore’s involvement
-Money
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Knowledge
-Rose
-La Costa meetings
-Money
-Stans
-Dean
-Immunity
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-President’s actions
-Conversation with Petersen
-John J. Sirica
-Petersen
-Ervin Committee
-Sirica
-Ervin Committee
-Witness schedule
-Conversation with President
-Money
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 433-67 (cont’d)
-Million dollars
-President’s subsequent investigation
-Dean’s report
-Ehrlichman’s efforts
-Moore’s meeting with Ehrlichman
-Dean, Moore, and Ziegler meeting
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-Possible statement
-Moore’s knowledge
-Chapin, Gordon Strachan, and Segretti
-Dean
-President’s knowledge of involvement
-Segretti
-Mitchell and Magruder
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-Mitchell’s meeting with Ehrlichman, April 14
-Mitchell’s silence
-$350,000
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Departure
-Due process
-President’s speech [Republican fundraising event]
-John Andrews [?]
-President’s role in defense of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Mitchell
-McGovern’s comments
-New Majority
-Ethnics
-Veterans
-Dean
-Documents
-President
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-Dean
-Conversation with President, March 21
-Bittman money
-President’s response
-Dean report
-President’s speech, March 28
-President’s trip to California
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 433-67 (cont’d)
-John Ford salute
-Jack N. Anderson
-Dean
-Contacts with prosecutors
-Magruder
-Lawyer’s negotiations, April 6
-Meetings with President
-Dean’s possible resignation
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-President’s role
-Knowledge
-Cover-up
-Investigation after March 21
-La Costa meetings
-Money
-LaRue
-President’s knowledge of use
-Haldeman’s handling
-LaRue
-President’s knowledge
-Moore
-Future role on White House staff
-Rose
-Role
Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and La Costa
-Dean
-Failure to inform President
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Meeting with President
-Clemency
-Conversations with President
-Mitchell
-Hunt
-Colson
-Credibility
-Faking telegram
-Conversation with President regarding clemency
-Hunt’s family situation
-Rose
-Ervin Committee
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 433-67 (cont’d)
-Effect on defendants’ rights
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Mitchell
-Courts
-Sirica
-Possible injunction
-Immunity for Dean
-Possible indictments for Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-President’s meeting with Dean, March 21
-Funds for defendants
-Mitchell
-Dean
-Role in cover-up
-Magruder
-Charges against Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Work with Mitchell
-Meetings with President
-President’s logs
-Meeting with President, March 21
-Visit to Camp David
-Date
-Memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-Cover-up
-President’s knowledge
-President’s meeting with Thomas A. Pappas
-Ambassador to Greece, Henry Tosca
-Pappas’s aid to Mitchell
-Dean
-Conversation with President, March 21
-Pappas
-Kalmbach
-Moore’s advice to Dean
-Hunt
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-McCord
-Mitchell
-Magruder
-La Costa
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Knowledge
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 433-67 (cont’d)
-President’s previous speech, April 30
-Dean
-White House response
-Documents
-Alger Hiss case
-White House response
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Moore, Garment, and Rose
-1968 campaign
President’s schedule
-Briefcase
Moore left at 4:27 pm.