164–21

Conversation No. 164-21

Date: April 28, 1973
Time: Unknown between 6:33 pm and 6:54 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Watergate

-President’s meeting with William P. Rogers

-John W. Dean, III
-Rules during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
-Voluntary testimony
-Immunity
-Dean

-Statements to press

-Possible testimony

-Subornation of perjury

-Leonard Garment

-Voluntary testimony

-Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s schedule

-Meeting with President

-President’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler

-News stories concerning plumbers

-Plumbers

-Responsibility

-Dean

-Ehrlichman

-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. and David R. Young, Jr.

-Purpose

-Electronic surveillance

-White House

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

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Conversation No. 164-21 (cont’d)

-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.

-Contact with Ehrlichman

-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy

-Ehrlichman’s action
-Conversation with Krogh or Young

-Results

-Ehrlichman’s action


Prayers

Watergate
-President’s conversation with Rogers

-Richard G. Kleindienst

-Rogers’s relationship with President

-Attorney General

-President’s forthcoming speech

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Attorney General

-Rogers’s forthcoming phone call
-Ehrlichman’s conference with attorneys

-Statements by Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-Possible statement by President

-Ehrlichman

-1972 campaign

-Telephone call to Herbert W. Kalmbach

-Cover-up

-Hunt’s papers

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s actions

-Fred F. Fielding’s knowledge

-Plumbers

-Dean’s knowledge

-Dean’s role in White House
-Hunt’s papers
-Henry E. Petersen’s knowledge
-President’s conversation with Petersen concerning national security
-Illegal operations
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Conversation No. 164-21 (cont’d)

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Watergate
-Hunt’s papers
-President’s conversation with Petersen concerning national security
-White House
-Hunt’s false cable concerning Ngo Diem
-President’s conversation with Ziegler
-Charles W. Colson’s involvement
-Ehrlichman’s knowlege
-John F. Kennedy
-Ehrlichmas and Young’s study of Bay of Pigs
-Colson’s involvement
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Use
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Colson
-President’s knowledge
-Ehrlichman’s story for Life
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-President’s knowledge
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-Colson
-President’s knowledge
-Life story
-Television [TV] network interview
-Use
-Hunt-Colson operations
-Colson
-Conversations with President concerning Hunt
-Timing
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(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 164-21 (cont’d)

-Lucien E. Conein

-Statements on relationship with Hunt

-President’s forthcoming speech

-Timing

-Length

-Leave of absence

-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Haldeman

-Ehrlichman

-Separability from Haldeman

-Gray and Hunt’s files

-President’s conversation with Rogers

-President’s information from Petersen

-Grand Jury

-Fred C LaRue

-John J. Wilson

-Leave of absence