Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 038-060
Date: Sunday, April 15, 1973 at 10:16 PM
Participants: Ehrlichman, John D.; Gray, L[ouis] Patrick, III
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/038-060

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:01] Hi, Mr. Grant.
[0:01] Thank you.
[0:03] Pat, this is John Ehrlichman.
[0:05] Yes, John.
[0:05] Good evening.
[0:06] Did I find you at home?
[0:07] Yes, I'm at home.
[0:09] I wanted to tell you that John Dean has apparently decided to make a clean breast of things with a U.S. attorney.
[0:22] One of the questions that apparently they've been asking him is about the envelope that he turned over to you.
[0:28] Yeah, well, he better deny that.
[0:30] Well, he's apparently pretty much on the record on that.
[0:33] I thought I'd better alert you to it.
[0:37] What the hell am I going to do about that?
[0:40] I don't know.
[0:41] Is it still in being?
[0:42] No.
[0:43] I see.
[0:45] I don't know.
[0:46] I was told that that was purely political and I destroyed it.
[0:49] I see.
[0:51] Okay.
[0:51] Well, it probably was.
[0:53] Is there any way you can turn him off?
[0:54] No.
[0:56] No.
[0:59] out of any orbit that we recognize around here.
[1:06] So I just wanted to alert you to it.
[1:09] What other things do you think he's going to talk about?
[1:13] Well, he's putting the best face on his relations with Peterson that he can, because Peterson has sort of moved in on the prosecution.
[1:25] Was he doing things with Peterson, too?
[1:29] I see.
[1:34] You might want to take a look at your whole card where he's concerned, because I don't know all ins and outs of your relationship or, you know, what...
[1:40] The only thing I can do with this is deny it.
[1:43] Okay.
[1:45] You're not going to back him up, are you?
[1:48] I can, you know, just say I don't know anything about it except that what he told me.
[1:56] But...
[1:57] He has spent all day today with a U.S. attorney.
[2:07] So, that's about all I have to tell you for the moment.
[2:11] I'll keep you posted if I can.
[2:12] Okay.
[2:13] All right, John.
[2:14] Thank you very much.