Conversation: 909-027
Prev: 909-026 Next: 909-028Start Date: 2-May-1973 2:46 PM
End Date: 2-May-1973 3:21 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:46 pm and 3:21 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 909-027 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 909-27
Date: May 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 2:46 pm and 3:21 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
Watergate
-President’s previous speech
-Previous Cabinet meeting
-President’s remarks
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.’s call to Ehrlichman
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Krogh’s possible affidavit
-Krogh’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson, May 1, 1972
-Leonard Garment
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Ellsberg break-in
-Obstruction of justice
-Failure to report
-John W. Dean, III’s conversation with Krogh
-Photographs
-Henry E. Petersen, L[ouis] Patrick Gray and Earl J. Silbert
-President’s knowledge
-Krogh’s conversation with Richardson
-President’s knowledge
-Petersen’s knowledge
-Petersen’s and Richard G. Kleindienst’s conversation with President regarding
Ellsberg break-in
-Timing
-Old Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Content
-Documents
-Petersen and Kevin T. Maroney
-President’s response
-Krogh’s telephone call to Ehrlichman regarding Ellsberg break-in
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-27 (cont’d)
-President’s knowledge
-Possible statement by Krogh
-Fruits of break-in
-National security
-David R. Young, Jr.
-Possible statement by Krogh
-President’s approval
-Krogh’s possible conversation with Richardson
-Kleindienst’s conversation with President
-President’s conversations with Dean
-William O. Bittman’s threats
-Krogh’s concern
-Timing
-Ellsberg break-in
-Knowledge of Petersen, Gray, and Silbert
-President’s knowledge
-Kleindienst
-Dean’s conversations with President
-Blackmail
-Dean’s conversation with Ehrlichman, March 20, 1973
-Bittman’s threats
-Money for E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Ehrlichman’s responsibility to President
-Dean’s contacts with President
-Krogh
-Possible resignation
-Feelings regarding actions
-Young
-Possible resignation
-Claude S. Brinegar
-President’s recommendation
-Possible affidavit
-Authority compared to Ehrlichman’s view
-National security
-President’s knowledge of break-in
-Photograph
-Dean
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-27 (cont’d)
-President’s conversation with Dean
-February 27, 1973
-Bittman
-Executive privilege
-President’s speech, April 30, 1973
-President’s conversation with Kleindienst and Petersen regarding break-in
-President’s response
-President’s telephone conversation with Petersen at Camp David
-National security
-President’s subsequent conversation with Ehrlichman
-Dean
-April 18, 1973
-Timing of events
-President’s conversation with Kleindienst and Petersen regarding Ellsberg break-
in
-Grand jury
-Krogh’s statement
-Richardson
-Possible resignation
-Ehrlichman’s interrogation by United States attorney from New York
-Robert L. Vesco
-Donald A. Nixon, Jr.’s involvement
-Ehrlichman’s records
-Compared to Watergate records
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming grand jury testimony, New York
-Secrecy
-Ehrlichman’s and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s forthcoming grand jury testimony,
May 3
-United States attorneys
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 2:46 pm.
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Labor-Management Advisory Committee and National
Commission for Industrial Peace
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:21 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-27 (cont’d)
Watergate
-President’s telephone conversation with Petersen at Camp David
-Timing
-April 18
-President’s activities
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Content
-Dean
-Blackmail
-Hunt
-Grand jury
-Executive privilege
-National security
-Richardson and Garment
-Krogh
-Possible statement
-Resignation
-Possible statement
-Memorandum [memo]
-President’s knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Ehrlichman
-Photograph
-Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Timing
-Krogh
-Resignation
-Telephone call from Ehrlichman
-Possible conversation with Richardson
-Possible affidavit
-Telephone call from Ehrlichman
-President’s schedule
-Ellsberg trial
-Ehrlichman’s statement to FBI
-News story
-Ehrlichman’s memo
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-27 (cont’d)
-News story
-Ehrlichman’s memo
-John J. Wilson and William D. Ruckelshaus
-Publication
-Daniel Ellsberg
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Privacy]
[Duration: 4 s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Watergate
-Krogh
-President’s knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Richardson’s questions
-Dean’s conversations with Krogh and Ehrlichman
-Petersen’s knowledge
-Photograph of G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Location, visibility of sign and license plate
-Ellsberg break-in
-President’s knowledge
-Justice Department
-Stephen B. Bull
-Possible telephone call from Ehrlichman
-Richardson
-Possible conversation with President
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Krogh
-President’s knowledge
-Dean
-Conversations with President
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-27 (cont’d)
-Subjects covered
-Krogh’s forthcoming conversation with Richardson
-Peterson
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge of break-in
-Peterson
-Dean
-Timing
-Photograph of Liddy
-President’s knowledge of break-in
-Peterson
-Response
-Krogh
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with Krogh
-National security
-Krogh and Young
-Burglary, wiretapping
-Young’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Wiretapping
-Krogh’s and Young’s activities
-Pentagon Papers
-Trip to California
-Purpose
-FBI report
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National security]
[Duration: 14 s ]
FBI REPORT
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-27 (cont’d)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Watergate
-President’s knowledge of break-in
-Timing
-Conversation with Dean, March 21, 1973
-President’s response
-Knowledge of break-in
-Justice Department
-Richardson
-Extent
-Krogh, Ehrlichman, and Dean
President’s schedule
-Trip to Florida
Jeanne Erhlichman
-President’s message
Ehrlichman left at an unknown time before 3:21 pm.