Conversation No. 869-13

Date: March 6, 1973
Time: 11:49 am-12:00 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John W. Dean III.

       Watergate
            -L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
                   -Confirmation hearings
                   -Talks with Dean
                   -Work with Senate committee
                          -Cooperation
                               -Reports in newspapers
                   -Richard G. Kleindienst
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            -Cooperation
      -Strategy in dealing with committee
            -Hardline
                   -Raw files
                         -Problems in disclosing
      -Nomination
            -Possible withdrawal
-James O. Eastland
      -Kleindienst's conversation with Eastland
      -Votes in committee
           -Phillip A. Hart, Birch E. Bayh, Jr., Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy, John
           V. Tunney
      -Ervin Committee hearings
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
      -Interview with WTOP radio
      -Dean's testimony
      -Peter M. Flanigan's testimony
-Executive privilege
      -Position characterized
      -Statement
            -Dean's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
            -Former White House staff
                   -Privilege
                   -Dwight L. Chapin, Charles W. Colson, Gordon C. Strachan
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
      -Interviews with Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP] staff members
            -Penny Gleason
                   -Background
                   -James W. McCord, Jr.
                   -Talk with FBI
                         -Gray rebuttal
-Gray
      -Nomination
            -Administration support
      -Confirmation
            -Standards
      -Performance with committee
            -Administration's opinion
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       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                        Tape Subject Log
                         (rev. May-2010)
                                                Conversation No. 869-13 (cont’d)



-FBI
      -Cartha D. ("Deke") DeLoach
      -William C. Sullivan
             -Report on past activities by FBI
                   -Report to Dean
             -Dealings with Dean
      -John W. Chancellor
            -Derogatory information
                  -United States Information Agency [USIA]
     -Change in file
           -Lyndon B. Johnson's orders
      -Examples of misdoings
     -Ervin Committee
           -White House position
      -Talks with Kleindienst
             -Concern about Howard H. Baker, Jr.
                   -Baker's statement
                         -Chicago Tribune
                         -Reasons
      -Witnesses
             -Preparation
                   -President's handling of Alger Hiss case
      -Baker
      -Ervin
      -Executive privilege
             -White House staff appearances
                   -Problems
                   -Gray
      -Dean
             -Double privilege
      -President's position on executive privilege
             -Press questions
                   -Clark R. Mollenhoff
                         -Hypothetical questions
                         -Dean's contact with Mollenhoff on the A. Ernest
                         Fitzgerald case
-Gray
      -Intelligence
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. May-2010)
                                                           Conversation No. 869-13 (cont’d)



              -Hiss case
                    -Perjury charge
                    -Whittaker Chambers
                    -Witnesses
                          -Preparation
              -Baker
                    -Cross examination
                          -Abilities

Dean left at 12:00 pm.