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427-012a
- President Richard M. Nixon
- William P. Rogers
- Manolo Sanchez
- John D. Ehrlichman
- White House operator
- Spiro T. Agnew
- Adele (Langston) Rogers
- Ronald L. Ziegler
April 16, 1973
Conversation No. 427-12
Date: April 16, 1973
Time: 4:55 pm - 6:01 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with William P. Rogers.
Greetings
Manolo Sanchez entered at 4:55 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at 4:55 pm.
Watergate
-President’s situation
-Advisory role fulfillment
-Attorney General
-Henry E. Petersen
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Difference from traditional role
-John W. Dean, III
-March 21, 1973 meeting
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 427-12 (cont’d)
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-Petersen
-John N. Mitchell, Magruder
-Possible testimony
-Effect on Haldeman’s position
-Question of disposition of money
-Conversation
-Dean
-Petersen
-President’s schedule
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-White House correspondents event
-Speech to building trades union officials April 16, 1973
-Proposed action
-Leonard Garment
-Dean’s negotiations with prosecutors
-White House staff involvement
-The President’s query to Dean
-Response
-Dean report
-President’s role
-Limitation to investigation
-Magruder
-Mitchell
-Responsibility
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Ehrlichman
-Petersen
-Dean’s possible testimony
-L. Patrick Gray, III’s custody of materials from safe
-Recollection on transfer
-Material political, not Watergate
-Transfer to Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
William Rogers’ schedule
-Dinner
-Spiro T. Agnew
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 427-12 (cont’d)
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and
5:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 427-12A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 38-72]
[End telephone conversation]
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:55 pm.
President’s schedule
-Evening outing on Sequoia
-Rogers
-Arrangements
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.
William Rogers talked with Agnew at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and 5:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 427-12B]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 38-73]
[End telephone conversation]
Schedule
-Adele Rogers
Watergate
-Dean
-Defense
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 427-12 (cont’d)
William Rogers talked with Adele Rogers at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and 5:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 427-12C]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 38-75]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-White House staff roles
-Ehrlichman
-Responsibilities
-National security leaks
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Hunt’s operation
-Testimony
-Mitchell, Dean, Magruder
-Haldeman
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Ehrlichman
-Materials from Hunt’s safe
-Relevance to Watergate
-Transfer to Gray of FBI
-Dean’s claim to act as agent only
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Mitchell
-Cover-up
-Placement of blame on Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Lawyer Charles Shaffer
-Ehrlichman’s log of meetings with Dean
-Non-Watergate subjects
-The President’s estate
-Dean
-Responsibility for investigation
-Post-Watergate break-in activities
-26-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 427-12 (cont’d)
-Funds for accused burglars
-Dean’s conversation with Haldeman
-Request for money
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Dealings with defendants
-Paul L. O’Brien
-Liddy
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr., Dorothy Hunt
-Reasons for giving money
-Mitchell
-Campaign period post-June 1972
-Possible effect of allegations
-Effect
-Ervin Committee
-Compounding of problem
-Instructions to defendants
-Lawyer for Cubans
-Henry B. Rothblatt
-Responsibility for money disbursement
-Haldeman, Kalmbach
-Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Haldeman
-Petersen
The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and 5:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 427-12D]
[Begin telephone conversation]
Watergate
-President’s meeting with Rogers
-Money [?]
-Purpose
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-27-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 427-12 (cont’d)
President’s schedule
-Sequoia
Watergate
-Activities
-Magruder, Mitchell
-Petersen
-Materials from Hunt’s safe
[End telephone conversation]
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:55 pm.
Sports coat
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.
Watergate
-Materials from Hunt’s safe
-Reason for characterization as non-Watergate related material
-Dean as source of information
-FBI
Rogers talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 4:44 pm and 5:54 pm.
[Conversation No. 427-12E]
[Begin telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Recollection of activities
-Magruder
-Transfer of materials to FBI
-Gray
[End telephone conversation]
-28-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 427-12 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Materials from Hunt’s safe
-Transfer by Dean to Gray
-Characterization of material
-Dean
-Petersen
-Possible White House action
-Timing effect
-Dean
-Alleged pre-break-in conversation with Haldeman about proposed
intelligence gathering plan
-Culpability
-Haldeman, Dean
-Fund
-Kalmbach
-Pre-election action by defendants
-Silence
-Press
-White House staff’s relation to 1972 campaign staff
-Money
-Mitchell
-Dean-Haldeman meeting about intelligence gathering plan
-Disapproval of plan
-Petersen’s interpretation of inaction
-Haldeman’s lack of role in campaign
-Dean’s role
-Magruder’s testimony
-Mitchell
-Haldeman
-Role in campaign
-Separation of White House from campaign
-Campaign finances
-Liddy’s proposals on intelligence gathering
-Mitchell
-Role in campaign
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Vulnerability
-29-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 427-12 (cont’d)
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-Possible indictments
-Dean
-Actions
-Agent of President
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Position
-Retention of lawyer
-Petersen’s conversation with President
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Possible indictments
-Magruder’s forthcoming testimony
-Promise by Ervin Committee
-Possibility of guilty plea
-Judge John J. Sirica
-Dean
-Position
-Magruder statement
-Grand jury
Rogers’ car
-Arrangements
Watergate
-Kleindienst
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 4:55 pm.
Car
Press relations
The President, Rogers, and Ziegler left at 6:01 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2010)
Date: April 16, 1973
Time: 4:55 pm - 6:01 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with William P. Rogers.
Greetings
Manolo Sanchez entered at 4:55 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at 4:55 pm.
Watergate
-President’s situation
-Advisory role fulfillment
-Attorney General
-Henry E. Petersen
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Difference from traditional role
-John W. Dean, III
-March 21, 1973 meeting
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-23-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 427-12 (cont’d)
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-Petersen
-John N. Mitchell, Magruder
-Possible testimony
-Effect on Haldeman’s position
-Question of disposition of money
-Conversation
-Dean
-Petersen
-President’s schedule
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-White House correspondents event
-Speech to building trades union officials April 16, 1973
-Proposed action
-Leonard Garment
-Dean’s negotiations with prosecutors
-White House staff involvement
-The President’s query to Dean
-Response
-Dean report
-President’s role
-Limitation to investigation
-Magruder
-Mitchell
-Responsibility
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Ehrlichman
-Petersen
-Dean’s possible testimony
-L. Patrick Gray, III’s custody of materials from safe
-Recollection on transfer
-Material political, not Watergate
-Transfer to Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
William Rogers’ schedule
-Dinner
-Spiro T. Agnew
-24-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 427-12 (cont’d)
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and
5:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 427-12A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 38-72]
[End telephone conversation]
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:55 pm.
President’s schedule
-Evening outing on Sequoia
-Rogers
-Arrangements
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.
William Rogers talked with Agnew at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and 5:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 427-12B]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 38-73]
[End telephone conversation]
Schedule
-Adele Rogers
Watergate
-Dean
-Defense
-25-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 427-12 (cont’d)
William Rogers talked with Adele Rogers at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and 5:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 427-12C]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 38-75]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-White House staff roles
-Ehrlichman
-Responsibilities
-National security leaks
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Hunt’s operation
-Testimony
-Mitchell, Dean, Magruder
-Haldeman
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Ehrlichman
-Materials from Hunt’s safe
-Relevance to Watergate
-Transfer to Gray of FBI
-Dean’s claim to act as agent only
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Mitchell
-Cover-up
-Placement of blame on Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Lawyer Charles Shaffer
-Ehrlichman’s log of meetings with Dean
-Non-Watergate subjects
-The President’s estate
-Dean
-Responsibility for investigation
-Post-Watergate break-in activities
-26-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 427-12 (cont’d)
-Funds for accused burglars
-Dean’s conversation with Haldeman
-Request for money
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Dealings with defendants
-Paul L. O’Brien
-Liddy
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr., Dorothy Hunt
-Reasons for giving money
-Mitchell
-Campaign period post-June 1972
-Possible effect of allegations
-Effect
-Ervin Committee
-Compounding of problem
-Instructions to defendants
-Lawyer for Cubans
-Henry B. Rothblatt
-Responsibility for money disbursement
-Haldeman, Kalmbach
-Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Haldeman
-Petersen
The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and 5:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 427-12D]
[Begin telephone conversation]
Watergate
-President’s meeting with Rogers
-Money [?]
-Purpose
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-27-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 427-12 (cont’d)
President’s schedule
-Sequoia
Watergate
-Activities
-Magruder, Mitchell
-Petersen
-Materials from Hunt’s safe
[End telephone conversation]
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:55 pm.
Sports coat
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:45 pm.
Watergate
-Materials from Hunt’s safe
-Reason for characterization as non-Watergate related material
-Dean as source of information
-FBI
Rogers talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 4:44 pm and 5:54 pm.
[Conversation No. 427-12E]
[Begin telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Recollection of activities
-Magruder
-Transfer of materials to FBI
-Gray
[End telephone conversation]
-28-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 427-12 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Materials from Hunt’s safe
-Transfer by Dean to Gray
-Characterization of material
-Dean
-Petersen
-Possible White House action
-Timing effect
-Dean
-Alleged pre-break-in conversation with Haldeman about proposed
intelligence gathering plan
-Culpability
-Haldeman, Dean
-Fund
-Kalmbach
-Pre-election action by defendants
-Silence
-Press
-White House staff’s relation to 1972 campaign staff
-Money
-Mitchell
-Dean-Haldeman meeting about intelligence gathering plan
-Disapproval of plan
-Petersen’s interpretation of inaction
-Haldeman’s lack of role in campaign
-Dean’s role
-Magruder’s testimony
-Mitchell
-Haldeman
-Role in campaign
-Separation of White House from campaign
-Campaign finances
-Liddy’s proposals on intelligence gathering
-Mitchell
-Role in campaign
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Vulnerability
-29-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 427-12 (cont’d)
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-Possible indictments
-Dean
-Actions
-Agent of President
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Position
-Retention of lawyer
-Petersen’s conversation with President
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Possible indictments
-Magruder’s forthcoming testimony
-Promise by Ervin Committee
-Possibility of guilty plea
-Judge John J. Sirica
-Dean
-Position
-Magruder statement
-Grand jury
Rogers’ car
-Arrangements
Watergate
-Kleindienst
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 4:55 pm.
Car
Press relations
The President, Rogers, and Ziegler left at 6:01 pm.
-30-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2010)