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Start Date: 14-May-1973 5:20 PM

End Date: 14-May-1973 5:42 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Higby, Lawrence M.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

436-014.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Lawrence M. Higby met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:20 pm to 5:42 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 436-014 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 436-14

Date: May 14, 1973
Time: 5:20 pm - 5:42 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Lawrence M. Higby.

     Watergate      

          -Ervin Committee        

                -Allegations against President        

                      -San Clemente property          

                            -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo     

                      -President’s financial situation  

          -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman 

                -Conversation with Higby         

                      -Grand jury testimony         



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    Watergate
         -Higby’s possible grand jury testimony 

               -Executive privilege       

               -Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]            

         -Haldeman’s grand jury testimony
               -Higby’s knowledge
                     -Possible consultation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
         -John W. Dean, III
               -President, Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
               -Newsweek story
               -Documents
                     -Possible contents
                            -E. Howard Hunt’s activities
                            -Ehrlichman
                            -Charles W. Colson’s relationship with Dean
                            -Allegations regarding President’s San Clemente property
               -Legal relationship to President

    Dean        

           -Knowledge of trust         

           -Nixon Foundation         

                  -Financial arrangements
                        -Purchase of President’s San Clemente property

    President’s San Clemente property 

          -Financial arrangements       

                -Public story      

                      -Blind trust
                            -Robert H. Abplanalp and Rebozo
                            -Cost
                            -Adjacent property
                            -President’s membership
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                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                              Tape Subject Log 

                                               (rev. May-2012)

                                                                           Conversation No. 436-14 (cont’d)

                          -Motives
                          -Nixon Foundation compared to blind trust
                          -Abplanalp and Rebozo
                          -Ronald L. Ziegler
                     -Nixon Foundation


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       President’s San Clemente property 

             -Allegations      

             -Dean as possible source 

             -[Santa Ana Register] 

                   -Laguna, San Clemente

       Watergate      

            -Allegations regarding campaign funds 

                  -Senate committee        

                        -Ziegler     

                  -Press coverage       

                  -Ziegler’s conversations     

                        -Frank DeMarco, Jr.
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       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                           Tape Subject Log
                            (rev. May-2012)

                                                   Conversation No. 436-14 (cont’d)

            -Herbert W. Kalmbach          

      -Higby’s meetings with Haldeman and Ehrlichman 

-President’s letter to J. Edgar Hoover regarding Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
      -Krogh’s role
      -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files
            -William D. Ruckelshaus
-Indictments
      -John N. Mitchell
      -Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Allegations regarding President’s San Clemente property
      -Source        

            -Ervin Committee            

            -Laguna Beach, California         

      -Dean
-Dean
      -Haldeman, Ehrlichman and President
      -Conversation with Higby
            -Haldeman and Ehrlichman            

            -President           

            -Timing         

            -Haldeman            

      -Statements         

      -Report        

            -Phone conversation with Higby         

      -Conversations           

            -Lawyers          

            -United States attorney       

-White House response
      -Strategy and visibility        

            -Norfolk, Virginia          

            -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.         

      -President’s schedule         

            -Haile Selassie        

            -Iceland        

      -Buzhardt’s role
      -Ziegler
-Haldeman
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                       (rev. May-2012)

                                                            Conversation No. 436-14 (cont’d)

                 -Opponents        

           -Ehrlichman       

                 -Conversation with Higby      

           -Dean’s documents         

                 -Possible contents    


Higby left at 5:42 pm.