Conversation: 933-011
Prev: 933-010 Next: 933-012Start Date: 6-Jun-1973 11:44 AM
End Date: 6-Jun-1973 12:53 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Wright, Charles A.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Buzhardt, J. Fred, Jr.; Sanchez, Manolo; Laird, Melvin R.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On June 6, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles A. Wright, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., Manolo Sanchez, Melvin R. Laird, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:44 am to 12:53 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 933-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 933-11
Date: June 6, 1973
Time: 11:44 am - 12:53 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Charles A. Wright, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., and
Manolo Sanchez.
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Conversation No. 933-11 (cont’d)
Greetings
-Guests
-Buzhardt’s policy paper
Refreshments
-Coffee
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:38 pm.
Watergate
-Subpoena
-Edward J. Gurney
-Samuel Dash
-Possible subpoena
-Statement concerning White House cooperation
-Possible subpoena
- President’s meetings with John W. Dean, III
-Reporters' comments on statement
-Archibald Cox
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Effect on forthcoming trials
-John N. Mitchell, Dean, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D.
Ehrlichman
-Cox
-Compared to other cases' publicity
-Sam Shepard
-Billy Sol Estes
-Bobby G. Seale
-Cox
-Forthcoming meeting with Wright and Buzhardt
-President’s papers
-Contents
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman conversations
-Dean
-Papers, memcons [memoranda of conversations]
-Contents
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Conversation No. 933-11 (cont’d)
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Compared to Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memcons
-Ehrlichman’s deposition
-Press coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-President’s knowledge
-Jeb Stuart Magruder and Gordon S. Strachan
-President’s role
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Funds for defendants
-Ehrlichman’s and Dean’s roles
-President’s knowledge
-Haldeman’s role
-President’s papers
-Contents
-Conversation with Dean
-Ronald Ziegler
-Courts
-David L. Bazelon
-Supreme Court Justices
-Thurgood Marshall
-Brown [first name unknown]
-Philadelphia lawyer
-Jewell S. LaFontant
-Ehrlichman [?]
-Senate confirmation
-Senators
-Executive privilege
-Access permission and terms
-Dean
-Contacts with President
-1972
-Executive privilege meeting, February 27, 1973
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and Haig
-Richard A. Moore
-Louis Patrick Gray
-Ervin Committee appearances
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Conversation No. 933-11 (cont’d)
-Dean report
-Donald H. Segretti
-Cover-up
-Release of information
-Fred Thompson
-Relations with Buzhardt
- Edward J. Gurney
-Forthcoming meeting with Buzhardt
-Possible cross-examination of Dean
-Dash
-Preparation
-Dean
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President
-Cancer on the Presidency
-Subornation of perjury
-Clemency offer
-Dean’s role
-William O. Bittman’s blackmail
-Conduct
-Thompson’s forthcoming questioning
-Contacts with Haldeman, Ehrlichman and President
-Contacts with President
-Content
-Dates
-Strachan
-Cover-up
-Executive privilege, Gray-testimony
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-Haldeman television appearance
-Dean
-Report
-Letter to Ervin Committee, March 20, 1973
-Moore
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony
-Gray
-Cover-up
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President
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Conversation No. 933-11 (cont’d)
-President’s assumptions about role
-Letter, March 20, 1973
-Purpose
-Content
-Payoffs to defendants
-Ervin Committee
-Segretti
-Investigation with Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
and Justice Department
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President
-Out of context quotes
-$1,000,000
-Discussion
-Funds for defendants
-Haldeman
-Motives of participants
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Increases
-Obstruction of Justice
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Mitchell
-Timing of Burglars' trials and sentencing-James McCord’s letter
-Cox
-Forthcoming meeting with Buzhardt
-Role
-Access
-Call from Buzhardt
-Leak
-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Earl Silbert’s subpoena
-Forthcoming meeting with Buzhardt
-Dean
-Meetings with President
-Moore
-February 27, 1973
-Moore’s, Haldeman’s, Ehrlichman’s testimony
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Conversation No. 933-11 (cont’d)
-President’s press conference
-Cox’s purpose
-President’s role in case
-Dean meetings
-Immunity for Dean
-Purpose
-White House response
-Letter to Ervin Committee, June 5, 1973
-Possible delay
-President’s role
-Jurisdictional guidelines
-Elliot Richardson
-Immunity for Dean
-Dean
-Possible testimony before Ervin Committee
-Immunity
-Effect
-Cross-examination
-Immunity
-Television coverage
-Importance
-Expectations
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming conversation with Thompson
-Timing
-Knowledge of wiretaps
-Cross-examination
-January 1972
-Mitchell
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-President’s knowledge
-Conversations
-Haldeman
-Clark MacGregor
-Haldeman
-Cross-examination
-President’s knowledge
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Conversation No. 933-11 (cont’d)
-Gray’s documents
-Ehrlichman
-Dean’s assessment
-Fred Fielding’s role
-Dean’s knowledge
-Subornation of perjury
-Mitchell and Magruder
-President’s knowledge
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Thompson
-President’s knowledge
-Funds for defendants
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Clemency offer
-Ehrlichman’s alleged meeting with President
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President
-Problems
-Subornation of perjury, clemency offer
-Funds for defendants
-President’s role
-Haldeman
-President’s role
-$1,000,000
-Cover-up
-Payoffs
-Mitchell’s role
-Bittman
-Receipt of $120,000
-Possible testimony
-Dean’s story concerning threats from E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Work for Ehrlichman
-President’s meeting with Mitchell, Ehrlichman, and Haldeman, March 22, 1973
-Full disclosure
-Dean’s trip to Camp David
-Dean
-Possible testimony concerning meetings with President
-Cross-examination
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-Credibility
-Conversations with President
-Easter phone call
-$1,000,000
-Ziegler’s presence
-$1,000,000
-March 21, 1973
-President’s motives
-Full disclosure
-Mitchell meeting with President,
March 22, 1973
-Possible White House attack on credibility
-Timing
-Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward
-Reporters' concerns
-Cross-examination
-Media
-February 27, 1973 meeting with President
-Moore’s testimony
-Moore
-Knowledge
-Dean’s comments
-March 20, 1973 call from Dean
-Dean’s forthcoming meeting with President
-Democrats, Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Possible knowledge
-Views concerning Dean’s informing President
-A phone call from Dean, March 20, 1973
-Dean
-Contacts with President
-March 21, 1973 meeting, March 22, 1973 calls
-President’s meeting with Mitchell, March 22, 1973
-Phone calls
-Florida
-Camp David
-April 15, 1973
-Conversation with Henry Petersen
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Conversation No. 933-11 (cont’d)
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Resignation
-Timing
-Petersen
-Petersen
Melvin Laird entered at an unknown time after 11:44 am.
Laird’s schedule
Media reaction
Laird left at an unknown time before 12:37 pm.
Watergate
-Petersen
-Knowledge
-Meeting with President after Cox’s appointment
-Possible suspicions
-Praise by Dean and Mitchell
-Reason
-Views concerning Mitchell
-Mitchell
-Dean’s views
-Dean
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman or Mitchell supervision
-Possible cross-examination
-President’s role
-President’s orders concerning report
-March 21, 1973
-Camp David trip
-March 20, 1973
-Contacts with President
-Content
-Possible White House counterattack
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Statements
-President’s response to White House staff involvement
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Conversation No. 933-11 (cont’d)
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell
-Dean’s motives
Buzhardt and Wright left at 12:37 pm.
An unknown man entered at 12:37 pm.
Laird
-Press conference
-Location
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:38 pm.
Watergate
-White House response
-Charles W. Colson
-Dean
Laird entered at 12:38 pm.
Laird’s press conference
-Watergate questions
-Various subjects
-White House staff reorganization
-Health issues
-National economy
-Recommendations
-Laird’s abilities
-President’s press conferences
-Schedule
Laird’s schedule
-Press conferences
-Relationship with media
Laird left at 12:40 pm.
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Conversation No. 933-11 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Dean
-Press handling
-Washington Post, New York Times
-Press handling
-Walters’s memcons
-Huston plan
-Wiretaps
-Dean’s statements concerning President’s knowledge
-Dean
-Statements concerning conversations with President
-White House response
-Joseph Alsop’s column, June 6, 1973
-Possible statements concerning conversations with President
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Effect
-White House response
-Buzhardt
-June 4, 1973 press stories
-Dean
-Haig’s conversation with Buzhardt
-Fear of jail
-Motive
-President, Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Ervin Committee and lawyers’ goal
-President’s culpability
-White House response
-Strategy
-Laird
-Role on White House staff
-William E. Timmons’s view of Congressional response to
appointment
-Bryce N. Harlow’s role on White House staff
-Dean
-Files
-Possible recordings of telephone calls
-Files
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Conversation No. 933-11 (cont’d)
-News summary from President
-Acquisition, contents
-Work habits
-Possible immunity
-Files
-Dean’s conversation with Buzhardt, June 2, 1973
-Lawyers
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible duration
-Maurice H. Stans’s possible testimony
-President’s conversation with William P. Rogers, June 5, 1973
-Mitchell’s possible testimony
-Robert Vesco case indictment
-Dean’s possible testimony
-Effect of immunity
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible testimony
-Colson
-President
-Laird’s joining White House staff
National economy
-Haig’s forthcoming conversations
-Simon
-Dunlop
-Connally
-Possible 60-day freeze
-Cabinet meeting
-Economic package
Haig left at 12:53 pm.
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