Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 11:44 am - 11:54 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
[See also Conversation No. 937-17]
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Use immunity
-John Sirica’s ruling
-Senate committee
-Television [TV] coverage
-Archibald Cox’s possible appeal
-Cox
-Concerns
-Pre-trial publicity
-Effect
-Ervin Committee
-June 15 private session with Dean
-Fred D. Thompson
-Timing of Dean’s cross-examination
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-28 (cont’d)
-Reasons
-Dean
-Timing of public testimony
-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s visit
-Witness list
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Powell A. Moore
-Position at Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy’s meeting with Richard G. Kleindienst on
golf course
-Magruder
-Conversation with Robert C. Mardian
-Magruder and Dean’s roles
-Buzhardt’s meetings, June 11
-Henry E. Petersen
-Harold H. Titus’s May 22 letter
-Possible attacks on Dean’s credibility
-Dean
-Possible immunity
-Effects
-Possible cross-examination
-President schedule
-Buzhardt meeting
-Economic meeting
-Conversation with President
-Recent
-1972
-September 15
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Content
-Money
-Watergate break-in
-Larry O’Brien
-Howard Hughes
-Haldeman’s recollection
-1972 campaign
-General Accounting Office [GAO] information concerning Democrats’
finances
-Bryce Harlow’s relationship with Head of GAO
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-28 (cont’d)
-Buzhardt’s contacts
-Possible threat to Congressmen
-Leaks
-Possible letter from Republican Congressmen
-Peter Flanigan