Conversation: 428-012
Prev: 428-011 Next: 428-013Start Date: 12-Apr-1973 2:30 PM
End Date: 12-Apr-1973 3:45 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On April 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:30 pm to 3:45 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 428-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 428-12
Date: April 12, 1973
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
Watergate
-Public handling of issue
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman statement
-Comments on White House response to Watergate
-Donald H. Segretti
-Need for special prosecutor
-President’s statement
-John N. Mitchell
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
Conversation No. 428-12 (cont’d)
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Ziegler
-John W. Dean, III
-Ervin Committee
-Executive session
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with William E. Brock, III
-Call to Ehrlichman at the request of Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Ervin Committee
-Effect of televising the hearings
-Brock’s desire to help the President
-George H. W. Bush
-Letters to Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Charles Thone
-Marvin L. Esch
-Release of statement on intelligence gathering
-G. Gordon Liddy’s reports on intelligence gathering
-Memorandums to the White House
-Sally H. Harmony
-White House recipient Gordon C. Strachan
-Format
-Disposition
-Strachan’s memo to Haldeman
-Grand jury
-Earl J. Silbert’s November 1972 call to Strachan concerning $350,000
-Strachan’s testimony April 11, 1973 concerning $350,000
-Frederick C. LaRue
-W. Richard Howard
-$22,000 Strachan delivered to William J. Baroody, Jr. for advertising
-LaRue’s possible testimony
-$328,000 balance
-Strachan’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Silbert
-Strachan’s conversation with Haldeman
-Strachan’s conversations with Ehrlichman
-Delivery of Liddy’s reports
-Strachan
-Charles W. Colson
-Haldeman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
Conversation No. 428-12 (cont’d)
-Recipient of political information
-Possible news report
-Harmony’s possible testimony on reports of bugging
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Unknown person’s conversation with President
-Liddy’s statement about documents
-Mitchell
-Magruder and the White House
-Conversation with President concerning Strachan
-Magruder
-Harmony
-Possible activities
-Liddy
-Possible statement by White House
-Intelligence-gathering reports
-Ziegler
-Leonard Garment
-Timing of White House acquisition of knowledge
-Dean’s disclosures
-Dean report
-Statement by Haldeman
-Possible resignation by Dean
-Status of preparation
-Contents
-Liddy reports
-Strachan, Haldeman
-Campaign intelligence
-George S. McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Disposal
-Dean
-Competency
-Mitchell
-Involvement
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Clark MacGregor
-Dean
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
Conversation No. 428-12 (cont’d)
-Ziegler
-Possible resignation
-Executive privilege
-Limits to application
-Colson
-Testimony
-Possible statement by White House
-Effects
-Focus of investigation on Mitchell
-Haldeman
-Bryce Harlow’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Opinion of Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Robert J. Dole
-Quid pro quo
-Instructions for William E. Timmons
-1958 campaign
-Pennsylvania
-Oklahoma
-Roy L. Ash
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Kansas
Dr. Kenneth W. Riland
-Indictment
-Work for White House
-Press coverage
-Henry A. Kissinger, Rose Mary Woods
-Nelson A. Rockefeller, Warren E. Burger, Mitchell
-Replacement
-Replacement as osteopath
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 428-12 (cont’d)
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Riland
-Visits to White House
-Rose Mary Woods
-Gen. Walter R. Tkach’s role as intermediary
-Rockefeller
-Support for Riland
-Tax withholding
-Navy payments
Treasury Department
-General Counsel
-Lee H. Henkel, Jr.
Herbert Stein’s paper on the economy
-Arthur F. Burns
-Pierre Rinfret
-Congressional action
-60 day extension
-Prices
Watergate
-White House reaction
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Ziegler, Richard A. Moore meeting
-Ziegler’s plan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
Conversation No. 428-12 (cont’d)
-Ziegler to meet with Ehrlichman
-President’s schedule
-White House Correspondents Association dinner, April 14, 1973
-H[orace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose meeting with Garment
-Rose’s earlier assistance with Peter M. Flanigan
-Garment to accompany Ervin Committee witnesses
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Baker
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s research on Democrats’ campaign irregularities
-Kenneth L. Khachigian
-Tod R. Hullin
-Murray M. Chotiner
-Colson
-Ehrlichman
-Harlow
-Weicker
-Harlow
-Relations with Ervin Committee
-Dean
-Proposed leave of absence
-Fred F. Fielding
-Garment
-Role in White House investigation
-Effect on Ervin Committee staff
-Report to Ervin and Baker
-Dean
-Possible statement requesting leave of absence
-Pay
-Bruce A. Kehrli
-Alternative source
-Possible resignation
-Report to President
-Need for investigations by credible person
-Haldeman
-Segretti
-Bugging
-Dean’s request for funds for burglars
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
Conversation No. 428-12 (cont’d)
-Possible testimony by Dean
-Reporting to Haldeman
-Possible statement by Haldeman
-Political intelligence gathering
-Advance knowledge of Liddy’s planning
-Mitchell involvement
-Ehrlichman’s questioning of Haldeman
-Possible cross-examination of Dean
-Possible testimony by Dean
-Dean’s response to Liddy’s plan
-Inaction
-Compared to President
-Need for publicity campaign building up Haldeman
-Moore
-Haldeman’s children
-Washington Post and Chicago Tribune
-Interviews
-Visits to Ervin Committee members
-Weicker
-Compared to Ehrlichman
-Compared to Sherman Adams and Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Watergate’s effect on President
-Seriousness of charges against Haldeman
-Possible request for leave of absence
-Possible lawsuit
-Possible resignation
-Target of President’s opponents
-Haldeman, President
-Counterattack
-Work assignments
-Possible request for leave of absence
-Popular concern about Watergate
-Effect
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Weicker’s response
-Compared to Adams and Eisenhower
-Henry Styles Bridges and other Republicans
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
Conversation No. 428-12 (cont’d)
-Effect of prolonged White House struggle
-Possible public relations effort by Haldeman
-Effect of possible leave of absence
-Effect on Presidency
-Other concerns such as the economy and the forthcoming US-Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] summit
-Effect on Ervin Committee
-Ervin’s views on Presidency
-Weicker
-Ehrlichman to meet with Ziegler
-Focus of news coverage
-Future news reports on Watergate
-Strachan
-Harmony
-Inaccurate testimony concerning $350,000
-Possible statement to Earl J. Silbert for correction of testimony
-Mitchell
-Possible leave of absence
-Haldeman, Dean
Ehrlichman left at 3:45 p.m.