Date: April 20, 1973
Time: 11:32 am - 11:40 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry E. Petersen.
[See also Conversation No. 903-11]
Watergate
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s statement to press
-Petersen’s conversations with President concerning grand jury
-John N. Mitchell
-Grand jury testimony
-Need to accelerate Grand jury’s activities
-Statements by Jeb Stuart Magruder and John W. Dean, III
-Problems
-Mitchell’s testimony before grand jury
-Lie detector tests
-Magruder
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Dean
-Status of negotiations
-Dean
-Distinction between roles as counsel and as conspirator
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 38-129 (cont’d)
-Disclosure of information
-Possible legal culpability
-Executive privilege
-Petersen’s conversation with Richard G. Kleindienst
-Magruder’s departure from Commerce Department
-Resignation
-Suspension
-Compared with Dean and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-President’s schedule