Conversation: 443-035
Prev: 443-034 Next: 443-036Start Date: 6-Jun-1973 5:43 PM
End Date: 6-Jun-1973 6:00 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Buzhardt, J. Fred, Jr.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On June 6, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:43 pm to 6:00 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 443-035 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 443-35
Date: June 6, 1973
Time: 5:43 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
Watergate
-Buzhardt’s meeting
-John W. Dean, III, unidentified judge
-Archibald Cox, Jim Thornburgh
-Charlie Henley [?]
-Leonard Garment
-Cox’s position
-Access to documents
-Constitution and Cox’s mandate
-Cox’s purpose
-Attacks on President
-Allegations against President
-Thonrburgh’s attitude
-Cox’s access to files
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2011)
Conversation No. 443-35 (cont’d)
-Henry E. Peterson
-Conversation with Cox
-Peterson’s conversations with President
-Attorney-client privilege
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:43 pm.
President’s schedule
-Tran Kim Phuong
-Meeting at the White House
-Details
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 6:04 pm.
Watergate
-Buzhardt’s meeting with Cox
-Petersen
-Privilege
-Memorandum concerning evidence against H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and
John D. Ehrlichman
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:43 pm.
President’s schedule
-Tran Kim Phuong
-Meeting at the White House
-Details
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 6:04 pm.
Watergate
-Buzhardt’s meeting
-Memorandum
-Petersen’s knowledge concerning Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Conversation with Cox
-Petersen’s conversation with President
-March 1973
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2011)
Conversation No. 443-35 (cont’d)
-Possible tape of President’s April 15, 1973 conversation
with Dean
-President’s April 15, 1973 conversation with Dean
-Content
-Petersen and Grand Jury reports
-Buzhardt’s meeting
-Cox’s requests
-Possible dictabelts of Haldeman’s and John D. Ehrlichman’s
conversations
-Ehrlichman’s dictabelts
-President’s meetings with Dean
-President’s meetings with Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and John
Mitchell
-After June 17, 1972
-June 6, 1973 to March 15, 1973
-Cox’s purpose
-President’s meetings with Haldeman and Ehrlichman after March 15, 1973
-Frequency
-Content
-Cox’s purpose
-Buzhardt’s meeting
-Cox’s procedures
-Inventory of files
-Time required
-Definition of President’s papers
-Executive privilege
-Cox’s jurisdiction
-Investigation of President
-Cox
-Possible future confrontation with President
-Subpoena
-Knowledge of case
-Buzhardt’s meeting
-Cox’s access to President’s papers
-Charles A. Wright’s view
-Cox’s possible subpoena
-Cox
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2011)
Conversation No. 443-35 (cont’d)
-Knowledge of case
-Memorandum of Ehrlichman’s conversation with Richard G.
Kleindienst
-Materials in possession of Special Prosecutor
Buzhardt left at 6:00 pm.