Secret White House Tapes

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895–22
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • John D. Ehrlichman
April 13, 1973
Conversation No. 895-22

Date: April 13, 1973
Time: 12:59 pm - 1:29 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Watergate

-Charles meeting with John D. Ehrlichman

-Tape of a conversation
-Source
-Encouragement of electronic eavesdropping
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s advance knowledge of Watergate
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-John N. Mitchell’s control over Committee to Re- elect the President
[CRP]
-Need for special counsel
-John W. Dean, III
-Removal
-Obstruction of justice
-Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Mitchell

-Haldeman

-Ervin Committee

-Press release

-Obstruction of justice

-Conspiracy

-President

-Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-Colson’s involvement

-Ervin Committee

-White House staff members under criminal charges
-Executive session
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)

Conversation No. 895-22 (cont’d)

-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-George H. W. Bush and William E. Brock, III
-Executive session
-Possible meeting with Ervin
-Meeting, April 16, 1973
-Magruder
-Immunity
-Cooperation
-Effect on sentencing
-[First name unknown] Birnbaum

-Magruder contact with press

-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Dean

-Interview with possible special counsel
-Colson
-Mitchell and Magruder
-CRP
-Mitchell
-Knowledge of Magruder
-Drinking
-Detachment
-Magruder
-Possible statement by Haldeman
-Tape
-Colson and Haldeman

-White House response

-Obstruction of justice

-Colson’s statement

-President

-E. Howard Hunt, Jr. proposal

-Jack N. Anderson

-Tape

-Haldeman’s review

-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Dean

-Leave of absence

-Possible special counsel

-Colson’s suggestion

-James Lee Rankin

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)

Conversation No. 895-22 (cont’d)

-William P. Rogers
-Relationship with David Shapiro
-Colson
-Relationship with Mitchell
-Magruder
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Warning
-Paul L. O’Brien, Mitchell
-Mitchell
-Colson’s theory
-Ervin’s interest in Haldeman
-Magruder
-Possible testimony concerning Haldeman
-Perjury
-Dean
-Mitchell
-Edward J. Gurney, Fred D. Thompson
-Press
-Magruder
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Televised hearings
-John J. Sirica
-Possible appearance before grand jury
-Ervin Committee
-Dean
-Colson’s tape
-Accusations
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Colson
-Colson’s knowledge
-Hunt
-Allegations concerning pressure on Magruder
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Ervin Committee
-Schedule of hearings
-Magruder
-Mitchell
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. April-2011)

Conversation No. 895-22 (cont’d)

-Immunity
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Richard G. Kleindienst
-Effect on Justice Department
-Colson’s comment on Oval Office
-Ehrlichman and President’s walk on the beach
-Meeting with President concerning Hunt
-Burglars’ sentences
-Possible special counsel

-Charles A. Wright

-Rankin

-Background
-Mitchell
-Herbert Brownell
-Colson
-Ehrlichman’s discussion of comment on Oval Office
-Haldeman and tape
-Meeting with Ehrlichman, April 14, 1973
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