Date: April 18, 1973
Time: 12:05 am -12:20 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
State Dinner
-Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
Watergate
-Gordon C. Strachan’s grand jury testimony
-Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-Need for preparation
-John W. Dean, III
-Immunity
-Help for defendants
-Lawyers’ fees and support
-Dean
-Haldeman’s meeting with Richard A. Moore
-Information on William O. Bittman’s request for money
-President’s legal responsibility
-Possible testimony on President’s knowledge
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 38-95 (cont’d)
-Immunity
-Conversation with President on money for defendants
-Blackmail
-Ehrlichman
-Vulnerability of lawyers
-Vulnerable individuals
-Frederick C. LaRue, Mitchell, Robert C. Mardian, Jeb Stuart Magruder,
Paul L. O’Brien, and Kenneth W. Parkinson
-Ehrlichman’s investigation
-Presidency
-Telephone call to Richard G. Kleindienst
-Magruder testimony
-White House staff involvement
-Strachan, Ehrlichman, Charles Colson, and Fred F. Fielding
-Strachan’s testimony concerning money
-White House staff involvement
-Lawrence M. Higby