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40–111

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40–111
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
June 14, 1973
Conversation No. 40-111

Date: June 14, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:58 pm and 4:10 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

[See also Conversation No. 446-3]

President’s schedule

-Diplomatic credentials ceremony


Haldeman conversation with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis

-Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman

-Role with President’s records

-Lewis’s assessment

-Bias

-Types of files and content
-Watergate material
-Materials related to President’s first term
-Lewis’s possible conversation with President

-Uneasiness

-President’s schedule

-Meeting with Lewis
-Illinois, Leonid I. Brezhnev, and California

President’s conversation with Lewis

-Meeting with President

-President’s schedule

-Illinois

-Brezhnev

-California

-Meeting with Lewis

History of President’s first term

-Watergate

-Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-Synopsis

-Written history

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 40-111 (cont’d)

-People’s Republic of China [PRC], Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR],
May 8 bombing decisions

Lewis’s conversations
-President’s schedule
-Haldeman

History of President’s first term
-President
-Ehrlichman
-Amount of Material
-Firing of Walter J. Hickel
-Publishers
-Ideology
-Trustworthiness
-Right-wing publishers

Haldeman’s schedule
-Minneapolis, California
-Daughter’s graduation
-President’s best wishes

Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Maurice H. Stans
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Testimony, June 14
-John N. Mitchell
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Haldeman’s knowledge
-Effect
-Motive
-Testimony, June 14
-Haldeman’s knowledge
-Strachan meeting with Haldeman
-President’s previous schedule
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman meetings
-John W Dean, III
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Magruder
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 40-111 (cont’d)

-Testimony, June 14
-President’s and Haldeman’s knowledge
-Strachan’s knowledge
-Haldeman’s knowledge
-Mitchell’s role
-Dean’s role
-Cover-up
-Ehrlichman’s role

-Cross-examination

-Testimony, June 14

-Dean’s subornation of perjury
-Dean, Magruder, and Mitchell meeting

President’s speech, June 13
-Congressional action
-90 day total freeze
-Effect

-Perception of action

-Presidential leadership

-President’s delivery

-Julie’s Nixon Eisenhower’s opinion


Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Witness schedule
-Haldeman
-Magruder
-Dean
-Herbert W. Kalmbach, Charles W. Colson, Frederick C. LaRue, and
Ehrlichman

-Mitchell, L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-Ehrlichman

-Time

-Stan’s testimony

-Edward J. Gurney and Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.

-Ervin

-White House response

-Vietnam negotiations

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Paris Peace talks

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 40-111 (cont’d)

-Leonid I. Brezhnev visit

President’s conversation with Lewis

-President’s schedule
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