Secret White House Tapes

168–28

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168–28
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Charles W. Colson
June 3, 1973
Conversation No. 168-28

Date: June 3, 1973
Time: 10:48 am - 11:07 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Watergate

-White House response

-Ronald L. Ziegler, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

-John W. Dean, III


Watergate

-Dean

-Statement concerning contacts with President
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Cover-up
-White House response
-Contacts with President
-February 27, 1973 with Richard A. Moore
-February 27 - March 15, 1973
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 168-28 (cont’d)

-Executive privilege
-March 12, 1973 order

-Telephone call to Colson concerning executive privilege order

-Motive

-Colson
-Forthcoming interviews
-Howard K. Smith
-New York Times
-Timing
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Sally Harmony, G[eorge] Gordon Liddy’s secretary
-Whtie House response
-Dean
-Strategy
-Prosecutors’ statements
-Expectations concerning revelation of Huston plan
-Statement concerning meetings with President
-New York Times, Washington Post, television [TV] networks
-Contacts with President
-January 1973, February 1973
-Role

-Knowledge of break-in

-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s perjury

-Clemency offer

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-Cover-up

-Contacts with President
-Funds for defendants

-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s attorney

-Meeting with President

-White House involvement
-John N. Mitchell

-Possible immunity

-Role

-Conversations with White House staff

-Colson

-White House staff involvement

-Denials

-President’s attention
-Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 168-28 (cont’d)

-November 1972 - January 1973
-Mitchell
-Washington Post, New York Times, TV networks
-Washington Post
-Compared to New York Times

-Story concerning President’s possible Grand Jury appearance

-Possible White House response

-Press coverage
-Dean’s statement
-Timing

-President’s schedule

-Erving Committee hearings

-Popular opinion

-News cycles
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Dean
-Contacts with President

-President’s will

-September 15, 1972

-Indictments of burglars
-Credibility

-Gary’s statement

-Jack N. Anderson column concerning former law practice

-Press treatment

-White House response
-Ziegler’s view
-Possible treatment by liberals
-Compared to James W. McCord, Jr.
-Gerald Alch
-White House response
-Immunity
-Colson’s forthcoming interviews
-Colson’s meetings with President
-President’s knowledge
-President’s investigation
-Dean
-White House response
-New York Times, Washingtin Post
-Ziegler’s report
-Press coverage
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 168-28 (cont’d)

-Dean’s statement

-Popular opinion

-Dean

-Statements concerning contacts with President
-Popular opinion
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