Conversation: 897-003
Prev: 897-002 Next: 897-004Start Date: 16-Apr-1973 9:50 AM
End Date: 16-Apr-1973 9:59 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Ehrlichman, John D.; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On April 16, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:50 am to 9:59 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 897-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 897-3
Date: April 16, 1973
Time: 9:50 am - 9:59 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
President’s schedule
-Forthcoming Building Trades speech
-Meetings
-Problems with advance planning
Watergate
-William P. Rogers
-Possible meeting with Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-John W. Dean, III’s forthcoming meeting with President
-Vulnerabilities
-Taping system
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Possible revelations
-President’s role in investigation
-Grand jury
-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s appearance
-Frederick C. LaRue
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Magruder
-Appearance in court
-Indictments
-Guilty pleas
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-President’s instructions through Henry E. Peterson, April 15, 1973
-John N. Mitchell
-Dean
-Reference to bugs
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Plumbers operation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 897-3 (cont’d)
-Haldeman’s knowledge
-Employee of Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Ehrlichman
-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Executive privilege
Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 9:50 am and 9:59 am.
[Conversation No. 897-3A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
Meeting in the Oval Office
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Dean
-Reference to bugs
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] wiretaps
-National security
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Congressional inquiry
-Mitchell’s cancellation
-Haldeman’s knowledge
Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 9:50 am.
[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was initially prepared for the
Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) and can be found in Record Group (RG) 460, Box
174, pages 1-15. The Nixon Presidential Materials Staff reviewed the transcript and made
changes as necessary. This transcript has been reviewed under the provisions of the Presidential
Recordings and Materials Preservation Act of 1974 (PRMPA). The National Archives does not
guarantee its accuracy.]
[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was also prepared Richard Nixon’s
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 897-3 (cont’d)
Special White House Counsel for Watergate Matters and submitted to the Committee on the
Judiciary of the House of Representatives. This transcript can be found in Submission of
Recorded Presidential Conversations (SRPC), pages 780-787 (1-8). Please refer to the RG 460
transcript.]
[Begin transcribed portion]
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time before 9:59 am.
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:59 am.
[End of transcribed portion]
Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at 9:59 am.