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045-027a

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045-027a
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Richard G. Kleindienst
  • Henry E. Petersen
April 26, 1973
Conversation No. 45-27

Date: April 26, 1973
Time: 7:44 pm - 8:02 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Richard G. Kleindienst.

[See also Conversation 431-9R]

Watergate
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Meeting with Kleindienst and Henry E. Petersen
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman and John W. Dean, III concerning E.
Howard Hunt, Jr.’s documents
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. October-2012)

Conversation No. 45-27 (cont’d)

-Dean’s description of documents
-Leaks from Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Destruction of documents
-Inference from Dean’s remarks
-Possible Grand Jury testimony
-Ability to function
-Possible resignation
-Dean

-Immunity

-Subornation to perjury

-Gray

Petersen

-Conversation with President
-Ehrlichman’s orders
-Relations with Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s call to Petersen concerning investigation
-Gray
-Possible resignation
-Dean’s instructions concerning Hunt documents
-Possible testimony concerning documents

Kleindienst conferred with Petersen at an unknown time between 7:44 pm and 8:02 pm.

[Begin conferral]

Watergate

-Gray

-Possibility of indictment


[End conferral]

Watergate
-Gray

-Term in office

-President’s instructions for Petersen

-Dean

-Source of New York Times story

-Immunity

-Effect of possible testimony

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. October-2012)

Conversation No. 45-27 (cont’d)

-John N. Mitchell, President, Gray, Petersen, Kleindienst
-Meetings with President concerning Watergate
-Conversations with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Gray

-Term in office

-Possible statement

-Grand Jury
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045-027a

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