430-16

Conversation No. 430-16

Date: April 25, 1973
Time: 3:35 pm - 4:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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Conversation No. 430-16 (cont’d)

The President met with Richard G. Kleindienst.

Watergate

-Schedule

-Refreshments


Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:35 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:10 pm.

Watergate

-Kleindienst’s conversation with Henry Petersen, April 25, 1973

-Earl Silbert’s April 16th memorandum to Petersen

-Burglary of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist

-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Petersen’s advice to Kevin T. Maroney
-Justice Department’s Internal Security Division
-John L. Martin’s response to Maroney, April 18
-Government’s knowledge of results of burglary
-James Wagner
-Dave Mitten [sp?]
-Prosecution’s responsibility concerning defendant’s rights
-John W. Dean III
-Petersen
-Scope of conversation with President
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Kleindienst
and President as subjects of investigation
-National security and executive privilege
-Ellsberg
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Mitchell
-[First name unknown] Marx
-White House role in investigation ,Plumbers
-White House Plumbers operation
-Results
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Conversation No. 430-16 (cont’d)

-Dean’s role
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-Prosecution’s responsibility
-Informing judge
-Mission
-Possible actions by judge
-Timing
-Kleindienst’s conversation with Petersen
-Ellsberg case
-Kleindienst
-Cover-up
-Reasons for White House investigation
-Hoover
-Burglary of psychiatrist’s office
-Petersen’s recommendation
-Kleindienst
-Warren E. Burger
-Conversation with Roger Robb
-Recommendation
-Ellsberg case
-Information for judge
-Corroboration
-Liddy and Hunt
-Effect of burglary on case
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-Dean’s possible testimony
-Liddy and Hunt
-Ehrlichman
-Dean
-President’s knowledge
-Mitchell and Ehrlichman
-Ellsberg case
-Need to reveal information
-President’s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:35 pm.
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Conversation No. 430-16 (cont’d)

Instructions on Xerox copies

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:10 pm.

Watergate

-Dean

-Motive

-Immunity
-Blackmail of President
-Kleindienst’s conversation with Petersen
-Ellsberg case
-Ehrlichman and Dean
-Leaks from grand jury

-Court reporters

-Prosecutors

-President’s conversation with Petersen

Sanchez entered and left an unknown time between 3:35 pm and 4:10 pm.

Watergate
-Dean’s conversation with Silbert, April 14, 1973
-Silbert’s conversation with Petersen, April 16, 1973
-Silbert’s memorandum to Petersen
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-President’s evaluation of information
-Prosecution’s responsibility in Ellsberg case
-Dean

-Role in Watergate

-Motive

-John N. Mitchell
-Conversations with US Attorney
-Dean’s confidential relationship with President
-Subornation of perjury
-Funds for defendants
-Cover-up
-Kleindienst’s conversation with Petersen
-Blackmail of President
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Conversation No. 430-16 (cont’d)

-Mitchell
-Guilt
-Conversation with President, July 1972
-President’s desire for a report
-Clark MacGregor
-Conversation with Ronald Ziegler, August 12, 1972
-Immunity
-Effect

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:35 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:10 pm.

Watergate
-Dean
-Immunity
-President as adversary
-President’s knowledge
-Immunity
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-Effect on Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Information of Ellsberg case

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:35 pm.

President’s thanks

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:10 pm.

Watergate

-Dean

-Possible testimony

-President, Kleindienst, and Petersen
-Blackmail
-Investigation
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Conversation No. 430-16 (cont’d)

-Conversation with President
-William O. Bittman, Hunt, and Paul O’Brien
-Blackmail
-President’s response
-$1,000,000
-President’s schedule
-Conversations with attorneys for Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-President’s advisors

-William P. Rogers

-Need for counsel

-Dean
-Departure from White House staff
-Disclosure of information concerning Ellsberg case to Silbert
-Ellsberg break-in

-Prosecutor’s action

-Presidency

-President’s situation


Kleindienst left at 4:10 pm.