168–11

Conversation No. 168-11

Date: June 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:54 am and 11:13 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

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

Watergate
Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman’s television [TV] appearances
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II’s opinion
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s opinion
-Robert E. Cushman
-Cushman

-Testimony

-Conflict with Ehrlichman

-Haig

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

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Conversation No. 168-11 (cont’d)

-Testimony
-John L. McClellan and John O. Pastore
-McClellan
-Pastore
-Bay of Pigs
-McClellan
-President’s possible testimony
-National security
-Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming Grand Jury testimony in Los Angeles
-National security
-TV appearance
-Haldeman
-Testimony
-Statement
-Denials
-John W. Dean, III
-Ehrlichman
-Statements concerning Dean
-Haldeman
-Testimony

-Pastore

-McClellan

-Presumed guilt of Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Joseph W. Alsop

-Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters

-Denials

-Statement

-Strategy

-John A. Scali’s advice

-TV coverage

-McClellan
-Ehrlichman
-Newsmen’s questions
-Coverage
-Haldeman
-Lawyers’ advice
-Statements
-Release
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 168-11 (cont’d)

-Testimony

-Pastore’s question

-Individuals knowledge

-Walters
-Compared to Cushman
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Pastore
-President’s possible testimony
-McClellan
-Compared to Haldeman’s testimony
-Haldeman
-Testimony
-Memory
-President’s memory
-Concerns of administration
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Sally H. Harmony

-Robert Riesner, Jeb Stuart Magruder’s assistant

-Strategy

-Witness list

-Dean and Magruder
-Immunity
-Immunity
-Procedures for judge
-Magruder and Dean
-Possible indictments
-Archibald Cox’s intentions
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Statement by Edward J. Gurney and Herman E. Talmadge
-Witness list
-Strategy
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s response
-Gurney, Talmadge
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Ervin
-John N. Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Dean, Charles W. Colson
-President’s knowledge
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 168-11 (cont’d)

-Dean
-Contacts with President
-Content
-Huston plan
-Huston plan
-Ervin’s opinion
-White House response
-Justification
-George H. W. Bush
-Statement
-Press coverage
-Christian Science Monitor
-President and national security
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Statements by Haldeman, Ehrlichman Colson, Mitchell
-Ervin Committee
-Ervin

-Motives

-Compared to Gurney and Talmadge

-Howard H. Baker, Jr.

-Actions

-Support for Ervin

-Gurney and Talmadge

-New York Times editorial on Gurney and Talmadge action

-Popular opinion
-New York Times, Washington Post, TV networks
-President’s trip to Iceland
-Bryce N. Harlow’s view
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee hearings
-Cox and Dash
-Effect of hearings on possible trials

-Mitchell

-Columns

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Mitchell

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Testimony

-Haig

-Cushman

-Possible release

-Statements
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 168-11 (cont’d)

-Content
-Press coverage
-Haldeman’s meeting with Richard M. Helms and Cushman
-Haldeman’s previous meeting with Dean
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] concern regarding Central
Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Haldeman’s testimony
-Haldeman’s subsequent meeting with Ehrlichman, Helms, and Walters
-FBI concern, in regards to CIA

-President’s statement

-Dean

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s testimony

-Haldeman’s testimony

-Interrogations

-CIA request

-Covert activities

-Watergate

-Walters
-Dean’s meeting with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s subsequent meeting with the President
-President’s instructions concerning Haldeman, Ehrlichman,
Helms, and Walters
-President’s meeting with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s testimony
-Haldeman’s role

-Gray’s testimony

-Dean

-Ehrlichman’s testimony