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Start Date: 3-May-1973 11:28 AM

End Date: 3-May-1973 11:59 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Bull, Stephen B.Garment, Leonard[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Oval Office

911-026.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 3, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Leonard Garment, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:59 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 911-026 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 911-26

Date: May 3, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:28 am - 11:59 am
Location: Oval Office
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                    (rev. September-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 911-26 (cont’d)

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

       President’s schedule       

              -George P. Shultz         

              -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. 


Leonard Garment entered at 11:30 am.

       President’s schedule       

              -Shultz       

                      -Congressional testimony          

              -Foreign policy address radio taping 

              -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. 

              -Shultz       

              -Jesse A. Helms         


Bull left at an unknown time before 11:59 am.

       Watergate
             -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] guards in offices of H. R. (“Bob”)
              Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman 

             -William D. Ruckelshaus          

             -Garment’s responsibility         

             -Garment’s conversation with Haldeman 

             -Apology          

             -Elliot L. Richardson        

             -Ownership of files        

                     -Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and John W. Dean III
                     -Access by Richardson or Garment
                     -President
                     -Henry A. Kissinger
                     -Possible subpoenas
                     -FBI access
             -Protection of executive privilege
                     -Accusations of cover-up
                            -W. Matthew Byrne
                     -Garment’s conversation with William P. Rogers
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    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                        Tape Subject Log
                      (rev. September-2012)

                                              Conversation No. 911-26 (cont’d)

         -Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s forthcoming grand jury appearance
                 -John W. Wilson
                 -Garment’s presence
         -Interrogation of Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. and David R. Young
                 -Byrne
                 -Garment’s presence
         -Rogers’s suggestions
                 -Witnesses’ possible position
                        -National security
                        -Consultation with personal lawyer
                 -Possible memorandum by President
         - President’s definition of privilege
         -Witnesses’ possible actions          

                 -Haldeman and Ehrlichman           

                 -Young and Krogh            

-Leaks
       -President’s conversation with Richard G. Kleindienst
       -India-Pakistan crisis
       -1969
       -Pentagon Papers
       -FBI
       -E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s and G[eorge] Gordon Liddy’s possible wiretapping
               -President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
               -Dean’s allegations
               -Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Ellsberg break-in
       -President’s knowledge
               -Meetings with Dean           

                       -Frequency         

                       -Kleindienst        

               -Meeting with Dean, March 21, 1973
                       -Hunt and Liddy
               -President’s conversation with Henry E. Petersen regarding grand
                jury testimony
                       -National security
               -President’s meeting with Richard G. Kleindienst and Petersen
                       -Dean’s investigation
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                       Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. September-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 911-26 (cont’d)

                                   -Hunt’s photograph
                                   -President’s response
                           -Richardson’s possible beliefs
                           -Picture at Justice Department
             -Krogh        

                    -Possible questioning         

                    -Role       

                    -Defense         

                           -National security
             -Ehrlichman’s possible defense
                    -National security
                    -Executive privilege
                    -Ellsberg break-in
                    -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] officials
             -Wiretaps on newsmen           

                    -J. Edgar Hoover          


An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

      President’s schedule       

             -Helms        


The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:59 am.

      Watergate      

            -Executive privilege       

                   -Ehrlichman and Haldeman         

                           -Garment’s meeting with Wilson regarding Rogers’s opinion
                   -Krogh and Young
                   -Ervin Committee
                   -Wording of possible statement
                           -Charles W. Colson
                           -Garment’s meeting with Rogers

      President’s schedule       

             Shultz        

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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                       Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. September-2012)

                                                                Conversation No. 911-26 (cont’d)

       Watergate
             -Maurice H. Stans’s call to Garment 

                   -Common Cause suit            

                   -List of contributors       


Garment left at 11:59 am.