44–10

Conversation No. 44-10

Date: March 22, 1973
Time: Unknown between 2:19 and 2:26 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Richard G. Kleindienst.

[See also Conversation No. 422-33B]
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Conversation No. 44-10 (cont’d)



Watergate investigation
-Howard. H. Baker, Jr.
-William E. Timmons
-Desire to meet with Kleindienst
-Contact with White House staff
-Kleindienst as point of contact
-Meeting with Kleindienst
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Telephone calls
-Bugging
-Administrative assistant’s complaints to Timmons
-Complaints
-Contact with administration
-Ideas about testimony
-John W. Dean, III as White House liaison with Kleindienst
-L. Patrick Gray, III
-Kleindienst’s conversation with James O. Eastland
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Difficulties in confirmation
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Possible appointment to Second Circuit Court
-Confirmation prospects
-Eastland’s view
-Wallace H. Johnson’s view
-Responsibility
-Availability of raw files
-Ervin Committee
-Kleindienst’s conversation with Weicker
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] policy regarding availability of
Watergate information
-Ervin Committee
-House Judiciary Committee
-Baker
-Meeting with Kleindienst
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