433–38

Conversation No. 433-38

Date: May 1, 1973
Time: 5:55 pm - 6:24 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Herbert G. Klein.

Watergate
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Conversation No. 433-38 (cont’d)

-Klein’s possible response to questions

-Status of case

-Elliot L. Richardson
-John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John W. Dean, III and John N. Mitchell

Klein’s term of service

The President talked with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis between 5:57 pm and 5:58 pm.

[Conversation No. 433-38A]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 45-102]

[End telephone conversation]

Watergate
-Klein

-Role with administration

-Knowledge of Watergate

-Compared with President
-Charles W. Colson
-Role in Watergate defense
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, and Mitchell
-Mitchell

-Role in Watergate

-Possible immunity

-Richardson

-Klein

-Role with administration

-Possible conversations

-Leaks

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] agents outside the offices of
Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-President’s reaction
-Leonard Garment
-Ownership of files
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Cabinet meeting

-Anne L. Armstrong

-George H. W. Bush

-William P. Rogers

-Armstrong, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

-Panel

Watergate
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell

-President’s statement

-Klein’s conversation with Colson


Klein’s future job at Metromedia

-Compensation

-John Kluge

-Abilities

-Success

-Company’s plans and finances
-Ross Baerd [?]
-Foster and Kleiser Outdoor Advertising
-Direct mail operation
-Television [TV] and radio stations
-California


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Robert H. Finch

-Klein’s assistance

-Political plans

-Senate

-Personality


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Klein

-Possible term in office


Watergate

-Duration

-Ervin Committee

-Departures of Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-President’s role
-President’s previous speech, April 30
-Finch’s conversation with Klein
-Ted Stevens’s conversation with Klein
-Charles H. Percy


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Watergate

-Charles H. Percy

-Political future


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Watergate

-Charles H. Percy

-Special Prosecutor

-Richardson

-Edward W. Brooke’s statements

-James L. Buckley’s statements

-President’s personnel actions

-President’s previous speech, April 30

-Reactions of Pete Wilson and wife
-Telephone calls to Klein by unknown persons
-President’s investigation
-Test of friendship
-President’s previous speech, April 30
-Reaction of Ernie [?] [last name unknown]
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Conversation No. 433-38 (cont’d)


Klein
-Term in office

Watergate
-President’s actions
-Klein’s position
-President’s instructions to Spiro T. Agnew
-Previous Cabinet meeting
-Percy
-Klein
-Possible actions
-Forthcoming press briefing, May 2
-Compared with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Judgment
-Unknown man’s forthcoming statement
-Compared with International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case

White House staff
-Klein’s conversation with Rose Mary Woods
-Youth
-Klein’s role
-Cabinet
-Stephen B. Bull, David Parker, Leonard Garment and Peter M. Flanigan
-Possible meeting with Klein
-Need for leadership
-Morale
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-President’s 1952 Fund Speech
-Klein’s campaign work

Watergate
-Cover-up
-Mitchell

Press relations
-Klein’s role
-Forthcoming press briefing
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-President’s speeches
-Klein
-Possible conversation with Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White
-Rogers

Klein

-Future

-Wealth

-Possible role

-Assistance to Finch

-California

-Press relations

-Schedule

-Ziegler

-Mood


Watergate

-President’s actions


Marjorie G. Klein

Klein left at an unknown time before 6:24 pm.

Klein entered at an unknown time after 5:58 pm.

Klein’s call to Haldeman
-President’s reaction to FBI agents guarding Haldeman’s office
-President’s statement to Cabinet

-Roy L. Ash and Earl L. Butz

-Cabinet

-Feelings toward Haldeman and Ehrlichman

Klein left at 6:24 pm.
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