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Start Date: 18-Jun-1973 4:31 PM

End Date: 18-Jun-1973 5:45 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Sanchez, ManoloBuzhardt, J. Fred, Jr.Acker, Marjorie P.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

447-011.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 18, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., and Marjorie P. Acker met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:31 pm and 5:45 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 447-011 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 447-11

Date: June 18, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:31 pm and 5:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

     J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s location

Buzhardt entered at 5:15 pm.

     Sanchez’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     Leonid I. Brezhnev’s visit 

          -President’s forthcoming toast, June 18, 1973 

                 -Rose Mary Woods         


Sanchez and Buzhardt left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.

     Watergate
          -Ervin Committee hearings          

                -Timing     

                -White House response            

          -John Dean      

                -$4,000     


Marjorie P. Acker entered at 5:16 pm.

     Brezhnev’s visit      

          -President’s forthcoming toast             

                -Typing       

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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                    Tape Subject Log 

                                    (rev. March-2012)

                                                           Conversation No. 447-11 (cont’d)

                 -Woods

Acker left at 5:20 pm.

     Watergate
          -Dean      

               -Money        

               -Motives compared with other participants 

               -Handling of funds       

                     -Buzhardt’s conversation with Fred D. Thompson
                     -$4,000
                     -Possible subpoena of financial records
               -Ervin Committee
                     -Howard H. Baker, Jr.
                     -Motives
                     -Dean’s forthcoming testimony
                           -Timing
                     -Leonard Garment
                     -Buzhardt’s conversations with Samuel Dash and Thompson
                           -Daniel K. Inouye’s conversation with John J. Rhodes
                           -Maury Leibman’s [?] call to Garment
                           -Buzhardt’s conversation with Thompson
                                 -Doug Parker
               -White House response to possible allegations
                     -Charles W. Colson
                     -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                     -Henry E. Petersen
                           -William O. Bittman’s alleged blackmail
                                 -E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
                     -Charles A. Wright
               -Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
                     -Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, Hugh Scott
                     -Buzhardt’s conversation with Thompson
                     -Timing
                           -Meeting with Dean, June 16, 1973 in executive session
                           -Baker, Thompson
                           -Buzhardt’s questions for Thompson
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 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                   Tape Subject Log
                   (rev. March-2012)

                                         Conversation No. 447-11 (cont’d)

                 -Dean
           -Postponement             

                 -Thompson               

                 -Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.           

                         -Purpose
-Handling of funds
     -Bryce N. Harlow’s characterization
     -Amount
     -Lifestyle
     -Financial situation
           -Buzhardt’s son’s investigation
                 -Alexandria, Virginia             

           -Dean’s father          

           -Divorce        

                 -Alimony              

           -Testimony            

           -Haldeman’s $350,000                

                 -Colson’s $22,000
                         -Disposition
                                  -W. Richard Howard
     -Maurice Stans’s testimony              

           -$22,000          

           -$350,000           

     -Howard’s statement             

           -William J. Baroody’s advertising firm

                 -Amount             

           -Gordon C. Strachan             

     -$22,000       

           -Stans       

           -Strachan         

     -$4,000
     -Money for defendants
           -Bittman
     -Possible questioning
           -Affect
     -Possible release of information
           -Buzhardt’s forthcoming conversation with Thompson and Dash
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 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                    Tape Subject Log
                    (rev. March-2012)

                                           Conversation No. 447-11 (cont’d)

                  -Press relations
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
      -Timing       

            -Thompson’s view of Ervin             

            -Dash, Thompson          

      -Thompson’s view          

            -Conversations with Buzhardt statement       

            -Possible leak       

            -William P. Clements            

            -Roman L. Hruska           

            -Leaks       

                  -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s role in tap on Lawrence F.
                   O’Brien, Jr.’s phone
                  -Colson’s role
      -Colson’s forthcoming press conference, June 19, 1973 

      -Colson’s television appearance, June 18, 1973 

      -White House response         

            -Handling of funds          

            -Colson        

                  -David Shapiro          

            -White House response             

            -Ronald L. Ziegler’s view           

            -Handling of funds          

                  -Possible press response          

                  -Baker’s possible response          

            -Buzhardt’s work        

                  -Forthcoming conversation with Dash
-Forthcoming statement
-Possible procurement
-Location of copies
-Hruska’s request
      -Forthcoming Ervin Committee executive session
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
      -Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.’s statement
      -Meetings with President
      -Richard A. Moore’s possible testimony
      -Testimony concerning Moore
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. March-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 447-11 (cont’d)

                       -Petersen
                       -John N. Mitchell
                 -L[ouis] Patrick Gray’s statement, June 18, 1973
                 -Contacts with President
                 -Relationship with Moore

     President’s schedule

Buzhardt left at 5:45 pm.