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Start Date: 27-Apr-1973 8:05 AM

End Date: 27-Apr-1973 8:35 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Oval Office

906-004.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 27, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:05 am to 8:35 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 906-004 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 906-4

Date: April 27, 1973
Time: 8:05am - 8:35 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Watergate     

          -John W. Dean III 

                -Meeting with Leonard Garment         

                     -Garment’s report to Ziegler       

                     -Dean’s attitude toward the President    

                     -Changes by the President       

                     -Possible action by President       

                     -Dean’s attitudes      

                           -President
                           -John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                                            -4-


                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                    (rev. October-2012)

                                                            Conversation No. 906-4 (cont’d)

                      -Watergate break-in
                            -President’s knowledge
                            -Involvement of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
                                   -Reports to Haldeman
                                   -Materials withheld from Federal Bureau of Investigation
                                    [FBI]
                      -Dean’s possible testimony
                            -Conversations with Haldeman and Ehrlichman after June 17, 1972
                                   -President’s knowledge
                -Ehrlichman and Haldeman           

                      -Herbert W. Kalmbach           

                      -Denial of information to FBI       

                -Possible action by President
                      -Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Dean, Gordon C. Strachan
                      -President’s responsibility
                -Information given by Dean to Earl J. Silbert
                      -Ehrlichman, Haldeman
                -Possible threat against the President

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:05 am.

     Telephone call for Manolo Sanchez

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:35 am.

     Watergate
          -Resignations       

                -Haldeman and Ehrlichman, and Dean 

                -Timing       

                      -Dean       

                -Leaves of absence        

                -President’s standards for staff     

          -L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s successor 

                -William M. Byrne, Jr.        

                      -Daniel Ellsberg case        

                -William D. Ruckelshaus          

          -Attorney General appointment          

                                 -5-

       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                          Tape Subject Log
                         (rev. October-2012)

                                                 Conversation No. 906-4 (cont’d)

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
      -Departures from White House         

            -Timing        

            -Effect of resignations      

                  -Ziegler, William E. Timmons
            -Grand jury action
-Dean’s possible departure
-Haldeman
      -Statement concerning White House staff involvement
            -Ziegler, Timmons and Richard A. Moore
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
      -Possible resignations
            -Timing
-President’s forthcoming speech
      -President’s responsibility for Watergate
      -Possible content
      -Education and format
-Popular sympathy for President
      -Timing of President’s forthcoming speech
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
      -President’s trip to Mississippi
            -Press reaction
-Special prosecutor
      -Henry E. Petersen
      -Advantages
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
      -Mississippi
-President’s conduct of business
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
      -Departures from White House staff
-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
      -Conversation with Ziegler
      -Forthcoming telephone call from Ziegler
            -Role on White House staff
-President’s forthcoming speech
      -Timing
            -Grand jury
                                               -6-


                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                         Tape Subject Log 

                                        (rev. October-2012)

                                                                Conversation No. 906-4 (cont’d)

            -President’s counsel       

                  -William P. Rogers, John B. Connally 

                  -Rose       

            -President’s forthcoming speech       

                  -Timing       

                        -Indictment of John N. Mitchell      

            -Staffing      

                  -Haldeman and Ehrlichman           

                  -FBI director      

                  -Attorney General       

                  -Communications staff       

                        -William J. Baroody, Jr.
                  -Columnists’ view of President
                  -[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
                  -James B. (“Scotty”) Reston, James J. Kilpatrick, Jr., Smith Hempstone, Jr.,
                   Crosby S. Noyes
                        -Action by President       

                  -Possible Congressional rhetoric      

                  -Haldeman, Ehrlichman         


Ziegler left 8:35 am.