Conversation: 894-002
Prev: 894-001 Next: 894-003Start Date: 12-Apr-1973 8:57 AM
End Date: 12-Apr-1973 9:55 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Ehrlichman, John D.; Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On April 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, John D. Ehrlichman, Henry A. Kissinger, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:57 am and 9:55 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 894-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 894-2
Date: April 12, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:57 am and 9:55 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
President’s schedule
-Meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Paul W. Keyes
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Party
-Changes
-Call to President
-Time
-Briefing for President
-Meetings about the economy
-Meeting with the President
-Briefing notes
-Dinner of White House Correspondents’ Association
-Awards
-Refreshments
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 894-2 (cont’d)
-President’s attendance in 1971
-Entertainment
-Reception line
-Mike Curb Congregation
-White House performance
-Reception
-President’s attendance
-Precedents
-Previous meeting
-President’s remarks
-Scheduling
-Keyes
-Meeting with President
-Briefing notes
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.
John D. Ehrlichman entered the room at an unknow time between 9:17 am and 9:55 am.
Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] suit about dismissed employees
-Status of case
-Administration’s response
-Appeal
-Court decision
-Judge
-Appointment
-Administration’s response
-Appeal
Watergate
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with William P. Rogers
-Tom Clarke
-Frank J. Lausche
-Special prosecutor
-Necessity
-Mitchell
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 894-2 (cont’d)
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Implications
-Ervin Committee
-Ehrlichman’s negotiations with Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
-Commencement of hearings
-James W. McCord’s forthcoming testimony
-Ehrlichman’s negotiations with Ervin
-Witness schedule
-Dwight L. Chapin
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Charles Colson
-Corroborating witnesses
-McCord
-Theft of document
-Bernard W. Fensterwald
-Sworn statements from staff
-Impeachment of John W. Dean, III’s investigation
-Attacks by Republicans
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Goldwater
-Peggy [Goldwater?]
-Goldwater
-Characterized
-President’s response to Goldwater’s letter
-William E. Timmons
-Goldwater
-Interview with Godfrey Sperling, Jr.
Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:26 am.
Call from Colson
-Return call by the President
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Appearance at Middlesex Club
-Time
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 894-2 (cont’d)
Call from Colson
-Colson’s location
Watergate
-Colson
-Contacts with Ehrlichman
-Fred F. Fielding’s conversations with Colson’s attorney
Base closings
-William E. Timmons
-Memorandum to President
-Henry Bellmon’s candidacy
-Oklahoma
-Pennsylvania
-Portsmouth, New Hampshire
-Kansas
-Robert J. Dole
-Number of employees
-Portsmouth
-Reduction of size
-Dole
-Implications of keeping the base open
-Characterized
-Ramifications of base closings
-Timmons
-Meeting with Dole
-Administration’s point of view
-Ehrlichman meeting
-George H. W. Bush
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Clark MacGregor
-Deal making
-Role as spokesman
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Harlow
-Deal making
-Dole
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 894-2 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Popular impression of President’s activities
-Statements to President
-Motives of participants
-Special prosecutor
-Sworn statements by White House staff
-Investigation
-Dean
-Goldwater, Armstrong
-Reaction to refusal to sign sworn statements
-President’s request for sworn statement
-Dean investigation
-Timing
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Dean investigation
-President’s request for sworn statements
-Sworn statements
-Colson
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-Chapin
-Dean
President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Peter J. Brennan
-Assistance
-Attendance
-Frederick B. Dent
-Brennan
-President’s remarks to Building Trades unions
Watergate
-President’s activity in investigating
-Special prosecutor
-Problems
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 894-2 (cont’d)
-Selection
-Judges
-Law school deans
-Joseph T. Sneed
-Charles A. Wright
-James Q. Wilson
-Background
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Wright
-Background
-Haldeman
-Possible appearance before Grand Jury
-Volunteering
-Mitchell’s reaction
-Connection with Donald H. Segretti
Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 9:26 am.
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger
Kissinger left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.
Watergate
-Haldeman
-Statement
-Ervin Committee
-Timing of release
-Content
-Results
-Testimony to Grand Jury
-Volunteering
-Problems
-Mitchell
-State of readiness
-Timing of release
-Grand Jury
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 894-2 (cont’d)
-Previous testimony
-Ehrlichman call to Kleindienst
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Chapin
-Haldeman
-Statement
-Connection with Segretti
-Possible wording
-Ervin Committee
-Televised hearings
-Ehrlichman’s negotiations with Ervin and Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Feedback from committee staff
-Televised hearings
-Haldeman
-Statement
-Name before Grand Jury
-Ehrlichman call to Kleindienst
-Kleindienst’s willingness to give information
-Personnel changes
-Kleindienst’s departure
-New Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] Director
-Special prosecutor
-Ervin Committee
-Forthcoming promulgation of rules
-Ehrlichman’s appearance on “Meet the Press”
-Release of sworn statements by White House staff
-Ehrlichman conversation with Richard A. Moore concerning Mitchell
-McCord’s testimony concerning reports
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-White House
-Ehrlichman conversation with Dean concerning reports
-Strachan
-Chapin
-Statements by White House staff
-Goldwater
-Rogers
-Special prosecutor
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 894-2 (cont’d)
-Possible statement by President
-Implication of Mitchell
-Funds
-Statements on involvement
-Dean
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
Brennan
-Country club membership
-President’s request
-Rogers
-Meeting with membership committee chairman
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 9:26 am.
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.
Watergate
-White House staff
-Dean
-Haldeman
-Comments by Republicans concerning Haldeman
-Goldwater
-Bush
-Gerald R. Ford
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Ervin on April 11, 1973
-Ervin’s opinion of situation
Ehrlichman left at 9:55 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 894-3 (cont’d)