Secret White House Tapes

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38–12
  • John D. Ehrlichman
  • President Richard M. Nixon
April 13, 1973
Conversation No. 38-12

Date: April 13, 1973
Time: 6:16 pm - 6:31 pm
Location: White House Telephone

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President.

Ehrlichman’s meeting with unknown people [Charles Colson and David Shapiro (?)]
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s forthcoming grand jury testimony

-William D. Bittman

-Kenneth W. Parkinson, Paul L. O’Brien

-Mrs. Dorothy Hunt

-Motives

-Ervin Committee

-John N. Mitchell

-Charles W. Colson

-New York Grand Jury

-Indictment

-Robert L. Vesco

-Daniel W. Hofgren

-Washington, DC Grand Jury
-[First name unknown] Klein
-Contributions for government contracts
-Shapiro’s interview with Hunt

-Hunt’s meeting with G. Gordon Liddy

-Mitchell’s orders

-Liddy’s expectation of pardon

-John W. Dean, III’s advice

-Effect of Hunt’s forthcoming testimony

-Possible White House actions

-Removal of Dean

-Colson

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)

Conversation No. 38-12 (cont’d)

-Shapiro’s recommendations
-Executive privilege and criminal conduct
-Statement by Ehrlichman, Richard G. Kleindienst
-Need for President to know evidence

-Ehrlichman

-Fred F. Fielding

-US Attorney

-Advice to Liddy

-Pardon

-Effect of President’s actions

-Colson

-Hunt

-James W. McCord, Jr.’s conversation with US Attorney

-Break-in of Herman M. (“Hank”) Greenspun’s safe
-Hunt
-Colson
-Mitchell

-Effect of Hunt’s forthcoming testimony

Content of testimony

-Possible pardon for Liddy

-Mitchell

-Shapiro

-Pardon

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Insanity plea

-Martha (Beall) Mitchell

-Two grand juries

-Hunt

-Dean’s forthcoming testimony

-Hunt
-Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Testimony
-Effect on White House
-Magruder
-Telephone conversation with Lawrence M. Higby

-Illegal recording

-Dean, Gordon C. Strachan

-Mitchell
-Meeting with President
-Effect of Liddy’s and Hunt’s possible testimony
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. January-2011)

Conversation No. 38-12 (cont’d)


Colson
-Hunt’s possible testimony

-Shapiro

-Bittman

-Hunt’s desire for pardon

-Hunt’s possible testimony

Shapiro
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