Conversation: 445-006
Prev: 445-005 Next: 445-007Start Date: 13-Jun-1973 11:45 AM
End Date: 13-Jun-1973 1:29 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Buzhardt, J. Fred, Jr.; Sanchez, Manolo; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On June 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., Manolo Sanchez, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 11:45 am to 1:29 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 445-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 445-6
Date: June 13, 1973
Time: 11:45 am - 1:29 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
Press relations
-Vietnam agreement
-Paris
-President’s speech on nation’s economy
Watergate
-Popular opinion
-Maurice H. Stans
-Ervin Committee
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Attack on President
-Agreement
-John W. Dean, III
-Cross-examination
-Opening statement
-Duration
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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:45 am.
Delivery
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:29 p.m.
Buzhardt’s schedule
Watergate
-Dean
-Credibility
-Contacts with L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III and Henry E. Petersen
-White House response
-Forthcoming trial
-Transactional immunity
-Archibald Cox
-Possible evidence against President
-Possible evidence
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Samuel Dash
-Documents
-Tapes of Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s investigation
-Statements concerning Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Mary McGrory interview
-Forthcoming cross-examination
-Buzhardt’s preparation
-Chronology
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-President’s meetings with Dean
-Dates
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:45 am.
President’s briefcase
-Oval Office
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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:29 pm.
Watergate
-President’s notes, Haldeman conversations
-Dean
-Contacts with Ehrlichman
-President’s instructions concerning investigation
-Contacts with President
-February 27, 1973
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-John N. Mitchell
-Minority counsel for Ervin Committee
-Kleindienst
-Testimony
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Kenneth Keating
-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Mitchell, Ehrlichman
-President’s recollection
-Dean
-February 27, 1973 meeting with President
-President’s knowledge
-Ervin Committee
-Hiss case
-Leaks
-Wiretaps
-Henry Brandon
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Leaks
-William H. Sullivan
-Records
-President’s notes
-FBI
-Sullivan
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-Records
-Gray
-Effect of possible investigation
-A Navy yeoman [Radford]
-Executive privilege
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Executive privilege
-Kleindienst
-Ervin Committee
-Break-in
-February 28, 1973 meeting with President
-Ervin Committee hearings
-White House staff involvement
-Gray
-Testimony
-Charles W. Colson
-Dean
-Cover-up
-Ervin
-Dash
-John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy
-Bugging
-Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy
-1968
-FBI
-Sullivan
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National security]
[Duration: 6 s ]
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Watergate
-President’s recollection
-February 28, 1973 meeting with President
-Bugging
-1968 bugging
-Sentencing of burglars
-Federal Judges
-Sullivan
-Burglars
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Wife
-Possible clemency
-Donald H. Segretti
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-San Clemente
-Samuel Dash [?]
-Witness
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Howard H. Baker’s possible handling
-March 1, 1973 meeting with President
-President’s forthcoming press conference
-Gray
-Testimony
-Availability of raw files
-Bella S. Abzug
-Possible report
-Daniel L. Schorr
-Bugging
-1968 campaign plane
-Cartha D. DeLoach
-Effect on FBI of possible revelations
-Dean’s investigation
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-Gray’s investigation
-Hiss case
-March 6, 1973 meeting with President
-Gray
-Kleindienst
-Statement on executive privilege
-Sullivan
-March 7, 1973 meeting with President
-Gray
-1968 bugging
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:45 am.
Matches
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:29 pm.
Watergate
-Dean
-March 7, 1973 meeting with President
-Gray
-FBI leaks
-Lie-detector tests
-Dean’s contacts with Gray
-Jerry V. Wilson
-Civil suit
-March 8, 1973 meeting with President
-Forthcoming press conference
-Duration
-Henry A. Kissinger’s presence
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Gray
-March 10, 1973 telephone conversation with President
-March 13, 1973 meeting with President and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Forthcoming press conference
-Colson
-Future role with administration
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-Kenneth S. Rietz
-Attacks on President
-Mitchell [?]
-Briefing Book for press conference
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Haldeman
-Release of Dean report
-Sullivan
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Watergate
-Dean
-March 13, 1973 meeting with President and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-FBI
-Dean’s possible response to Ervin Committee
-Gray, Jerry Wilson
-Nomination
-Compared to Kleindienst [?]
-Chapen [?]
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Kalmbach
-Ronald Ziegler’s statement
-President’s legal work
-Frank DeMarco, Jr., President
-Kalmbach
-New York firm
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-John H. Alexander
-Kalmbach
-Ziegler
-New York firm, Kalmbach’s firm
-White House
-New York firm
-Donation of President’s papers
-Dean
-March 13, 1973 meeting with President and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Subornation of perjury
-President’s deniability
-Sentences of burglars
-Judge John J. Sirica
-Ervin Committee
-Targets of investigation
-Haldeman
-Chapin
-Gordon Strachan
-Knowledge
-Haldeman’s problem
-Colson’s relationship with Hunt
-Mitchell
-Knowledge
-Release of truth
-Ehrlichman
-White House staff knowledge of burglary of Democratic National
Committee [DNC]
-Strachan
-[Transcripts]
-Sullivan
-Chappaquiddick
-Possible testimony
-Kalmbach
-Bugging
-Sullivan [?]
-National security
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-March 14, 1973 meeting with President and Richard A. Moore
-President’s dictating habits
-President’s forthcoming press conference
-March 15, 1973 meeting with President and Moore
-President’s previous press conference
-Hiss case
-March 16, 1973 meeting with President
-FBI files
-Possible release
-Dean report
-President’s possible suspicions
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-March 16, 1973 meeting with President
-Need for truth
-Mitchell, Magruder
-Release of truth
-Dash
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Visit to Camp David by Dean and Moore
-Mitchell
-Ziegler
-1968 bugging
-Kleindienst’s view
-Mitchell, Colson, Haldeman
-Magruder
-Possible testimony
-White House staff knowledge of burglary of DNC
-Strachan
-Magruder
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Haldeman’s knowledge
-Magruder
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible White House staff testimony
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean
-Magruder, Sloan
-Possible testimony
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-Haldeman’s involvement
-Ehrlichman
-Break-in of Daniel Ellsberg’s doctor’s office
-Dean’s assertion
-Liddy
-Strachan
-Conversation with Dean concerning White House staff
knowledge of DNC burglary
-Break-in of Ellsberg’s doctor’s office
-President’s reaction
-Picture of Liddy
-March 20, 1973 meeting with President and Moore
-President’s notes
-Written interrogatories
-William O. Bittman
-Counteroffensive
-Mitchell
-Grand jury
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Robert L. Vesco
-Murray Chotiner, George Smathers
-Edward J. Gurney’s press conference
-White House response
-Ziegler
-Segretti
-Debriefing by Dean
-Moore’s response
-Need for statement
-Phone conversations with President
-March 20, 1973 meeting with President and Moore
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Kleindienst
-Sentencing of burglars
-Moore
-Statement
-Grand jury
-White House staff involvement
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-Strachan
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President and Haldeman
-“Cancer on the Presidency”
-Funds for defendants
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Kalmbach
-William O. Bittman
-Haldeman’s entrance
-$120,000
-$1,000,000
-Haldeman’s recollections
-Funds for defendants
-Washing money
-Cuban committee
-Clemency offer
-Funds for defendants
-Washing money
-Cuban committee
-Clemency offer
-Funds for defendants
-Hunt
-Haldeman
-President’s response
-Dean’s forthcoming meeting with Haldeman,
Ehrlichman and Mitchell
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman
-Content
-Dean’s previous meeting with Mitchell, Magruder [?], Ehrlichman
and Haldeman
-Mitchell’s knowledge
-Mitchell
-Conversations with President
-William P. Rogers
-President’s conversations, March 1973
-Kleindienst, Petersen
-President’s subsequent conversations with Dean,
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Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Dean
-Conversations with Prosecutors
-Magruder
-Break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
-Immunity
-Buzhardt’s conversation with Peterson
-Ellsberg break-in
-Petersen’s possible knowledge
-Photograph
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Dr. Lewis Fielding’s office
-Hunt’s story
-Liddy
-Release of information
-Petersen
-Petersen
-Contacts with President
-Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
-Prior relationship with Hunt
-CIA
-Hunt
-Mitchell
-March 22, 1973 conversation with President, Ehrlichman,
Haldeman
-Records
-Bittman
-President’s conversations with Dean after James W. McCord, Jr.’s
March 23, 1973 statement
-Hunt
-Ellsberg case
-Hunt
-Dirty tricks
-Plumbers
-President’s conversations with Ehrlichman
-$1,000,000
-Dean’s possible statements
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-Possible White House response
-President’s conversation with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s meeting with Dean and Mitchell
-Content
-Bittman
-Possible immunity
-Conversation with Colson concerning clemency
-Colson’s conversations with President
-Hunt’s wife’s death
-Gerald Alch’s testimony
-Effect on Bittman
-Money and clemency for burglars
-Clemency
-Colson, Bittman
-Ehrlichman
-Dean’s instructions to John Caulfield
-Hunt, McCord
-President’s conversations with Ehrlichman
-Dean
-April 1973 conversations with President
-Bittman
-Payments [?]
-Legal liability
-Intent of fund-raisers
-April 16, 1973 meeting with President
-Resignation
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Petersen
-Conversations with President
-Resignations of Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean
-Dean
-Conversations with President
-Petersen
-Dean’s meetings
-Liddy, Haldeman
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Magruder
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-Ehrlichman’s instructions to Kalmbach
-Haldeman and $350,000
-March 21, 1973
-Haldeman
-Break-ins
-Dean’s involvement
-Clemency offer, subornation of perjury
-Funds for defendants
-Bittman
-President’s call from Florida
-Bittman
-March 21, 1973
-Thomas A. Pappas and Mitchell
-Martha Mitchell
-Haldeman’s knowledge
-President’s methodology
-President’s response
-Ehrlichman
-Turning over of notes
-Moore [?]
-Cox
-Requests
-Documents
-Petersen and executive privilege
-Kleindienst
-Tape of President’s conversation with Dean
-Peterson’s review
-Misunderstanding
-President’s dictation
-Inventory of files
-Kleindienst, Petersen
-Documents
-President’s appointment logs
-Documents
-Specificity
-President’s tapes
-Ehrlichman, Colson
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-Telephone conversations
-Locations
-Cox
-Requests
-Ehrlichman’s tapes
-Notes
-Ehrlichman’s tapes
-Content
-Possible confrontation
-Timing
-Dean’s Ervin Committee testimony
-Dash
-Possible requests
-Cox
-Knowledge of case
-Possible indictments
-Dean
-Magruder
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Goal
-Statement
-Cross-examination
-Goal
-Content
-Conversations with President and Ehrlichman, Haldeman,
or Moore
-Possible perjury
-Possible effect
-Possible statements concerning Bittman
-Mitchell’s role in fund-raising
-Buzhardt’s speculation
-Possible fund-raising
-Maurice H. Stans
-Pappas
-Mitchell
-Frederick LaRue
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-Funds for defendants
-Fred Fielding’s testimony
-Possible immunity
-Cox
-Sirica
-Cox
-Effect
-Dean’s lawyers
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Relationship with Mitchell
-Gray
-Peterson
-Results of DNC burglary
-Conversations with Ehrlichman
-Strachan, Haldeman
-Dean
-Strategy
-Immunity
-Lawyer’s motions in court, June 12, 1973
-Sirica’s response
-May 22, 1973 letter from prosecutors
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Goal
-Offers to prosecutors
-Dr. Fielding break-in, lockbox
-President’s knowledge of coverage
-Phone conversations with President
-President’s records
-Haldeman’s phone records
Buzhardt left at 1:29 pm.
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