427-012b

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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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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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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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
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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
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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]
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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

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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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