Date: April 13, 1973
Time: 6:16 pm - 6:31 pm
Location: White House Telephone
John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President.
Ehrlichman’s meeting with unknown people [Charles Colson and David Shapiro (?)]
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s forthcoming grand jury testimony
-William D. Bittman
-Kenneth W. Parkinson, Paul L. O’Brien
-Mrs. Dorothy Hunt
-Motives
-Ervin Committee
-John N. Mitchell
-Charles W. Colson
-New York Grand Jury
-Indictment
-Robert L. Vesco
-Daniel W. Hofgren
-Washington, DC Grand Jury
-[First name unknown] Klein
-Contributions for government contracts
-Shapiro’s interview with Hunt
-Hunt’s meeting with G. Gordon Liddy
-Mitchell’s orders
-Liddy’s expectation of pardon
-John W. Dean, III’s advice
-Effect of Hunt’s forthcoming testimony
-Possible White House actions
-Removal of Dean
-Colson
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 38-12 (cont’d)
-Shapiro’s recommendations
-Executive privilege and criminal conduct
-Statement by Ehrlichman, Richard G. Kleindienst
-Need for President to know evidence
-Ehrlichman
-Fred F. Fielding
-US Attorney
-Advice to Liddy
-Pardon
-Effect of President’s actions
-Colson
-Hunt
-James W. McCord, Jr.’s conversation with US Attorney
-Break-in of Herman M. (“Hank”) Greenspun’s safe
-Hunt
-Colson
-Mitchell
-Effect of Hunt’s forthcoming testimony
Content of testimony
-Possible pardon for Liddy
-Mitchell
-Shapiro
-Pardon
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Insanity plea
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Two grand juries
-Hunt
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Hunt
-Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Testimony
-Effect on White House
-Magruder
-Telephone conversation with Lawrence M. Higby
-Illegal recording
-Dean, Gordon C. Strachan
-Mitchell
-Meeting with President
-Effect of Liddy’s and Hunt’s possible testimony
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