Conversation: 045-027
Prev:  045-026 Next: 045-028Start Date: 26-Apr-1973 7:44 PM
End Date: 26-Apr-1973 8:02 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kleindienst, Richard G.; Petersen, Henry E.; Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On April 26, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Richard G. Kleindienst, and Henry E. Petersen talked on the telephone from 7:44 pm to 8:02 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-027 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 45-27 Date: April 26, 1973 Time: 7:44 pm - 8:02 pm Location: White House Telephone The President talked with Richard G. Kleindienst. [See also Conversation 431-9R] Watergate -L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III -Meeting with Kleindienst and Henry E. Petersen -Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman and John W. Dean, III concerning E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s documents -18- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. October-2012) Conversation No. 45-27 (cont’d) -Dean’s description of documents -Leaks from Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] -Destruction of documents -Inference from Dean’s remarks -Possible Grand Jury testimony -Ability to function -Possible resignation -Dean -Immunity -Subornation to perjury -Gray Petersen -Conversation with President -Ehrlichman’s orders -Relations with Ehrlichman -Ehrlichman’s call to Petersen concerning investigation -Gray -Possible resignation -Dean’s instructions concerning Hunt documents -Possible testimony concerning documents Kleindienst conferred with Petersen at an unknown time between 7:44 pm and 8:02 pm. [Begin conferral] Watergate -Gray -Possibility of indictment [End conferral] Watergate -Gray -Term in office -President’s instructions for Petersen -Dean -Source of New York Times story -Immunity -Effect of possible testimony -19- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. October-2012) Conversation No. 45-27 (cont’d) -John N. Mitchell, President, Gray, Petersen, Kleindienst -Meetings with President concerning Watergate -Conversations with Ronald L. Ziegler -Gray -Term in office -Possible statement -Grand Jury