45–3

Conversation No. 45-3

Date: April 26, 1973
Time: 12:16 pm - 12:21 pm

Location: White House Telephone


The President talked with Richard G. Kleindienst.


[See also Conversation No. 905-17]

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Conversation No. 45-3 (cont’d)


Tax legislation
-Meeting
-House Ways and Means Committee
-President’s schooling

Watergate
-Kleindienst’s conversations with Henry E. Petersen and Kevin T. Maroney
concerning Ellsberg break-in

-Petersen’s and Maroney’s conversation with David R. Nissen

-Presentation to Judge

-Prosecutor’s knowledge

-Brady case, Supreme Court case


Wounded Knee incident
-Need for decision
-President’s meeting with Kleindienst
-John C. Whitaker, Leonard Garment, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Interior Department, Justice Department

-Law enforcement problems

-Possible response

-President’s meeting with Kleindienst

-Bureau of Indian Affairs

-Preliminary materials

-Cole

-Loss of life

-Justice Department’s plan

-Defense Department

-Use of gas

-Theft of weapons from Denver depot

-Public involvement

-Students

-Activists’ weakness

-Letter from George S. McGovern

-Support for action

-South Dakota

-Cole

-President’s meeting with Kleindienst

-Stephen B. Bull

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