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