Conversation: 902-005
Prev: 902-004 Next: 902-006Start Date: Thursday, April 19, 1973 5:29 PM
End Date: Thursday, April 19, 1973 5:48 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; White House operator; Dean, John W., IIIRecording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On April 19, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, White House operator, and John W. Dean, III met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:29 pm and 12:48 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 902-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 902-5
Date: April 19, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:29 pm and 12:48 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President and Ronald L. Ziegler entered. This recording began at an unknown time while
the conversation was in progress.
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Statement
-Contents
-Ziegler’s response to possible questions
-Notification of Ziegler
-Christopher Leyen story in the New York Times
-Dean’s activities
-Report
-Meetings with President
-Dean
-Ziegler’s response to possible questions
-Henry E. Petersen’s opinion
-Instructions for Ziegler on telephone call
Ziegler talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:29 pm and 12:48
pm.
[Conversation No. 902-5A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 38-106]
[End telephone conversation]
Dean
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 902-5 (cont’d)
Return call
Ziegler’s statement
-President’s authorization
Ziegler talked with Dean at an unknown time between 12:29 pm and 12:48 pm.
[Conversation No. 902-5B]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[Conversation No. 38-107]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Ziegler’s conversation with Dean
-Story about Dean
-Magruder [?]
President’s meeting with Jewish leaders
-Soviet Jews
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-Soviet Union
-Communication
-Exemption
-US cooperation
-Freedom of emigration
Watergate
-Dean
-President’s public posture
-Conversation with President, March 21, 1973
-President’s reaction
-Dean’s report
-Possible indictment
-Conversations with President concerning Watergate
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 902-5 (cont’d)
-President’s previous public statement
-William L. Safire’s column
-Washington Post editorial
-President’s April 19, 1973, conversation with Petersen
-Dean’s role in Watergate
-Immunity
-Corroborative evidence
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Reports
-President
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Ziegler
-President’s August 29, 1972, statement
-Role in investigation after March 21
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Role in Watergate
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Grand Jury
-Presidential initiative
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible resignations
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
Ziegler left at 12:48 pm.