Date: April 9, 1973
Time: 7:55 pm-8:07 pm
Location: White House Telephone
John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President.
[See also Conversation No. 425-47]
Watergate
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. and Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Announcement
-John W. Dean, III
-Leonard Garment meeting with Senate committee counsel
-Information compared to executive privilege
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-Charges
-Political espionage
-Donald H. Segretti
-Scope of committee’s interest
-Watergate break-in
-Political espionage
-Political financing
-Democrats
-Baker’s interest
-Bugging of Nixon airplane in 1968
-Need for evidence
-William H. Sullivan
-Committee schedule
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Administration’s witnesses
-Baker’s assistance
-Rules of evidence
-Hearsay
-Conduit people
-Garment’s attendance
-Television [TV] coverage
-White House witnesses
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Charles W. Colson, Dean, Dwight L. Chapin
-Harry S. Dent’s request
-McCord’s testimony
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Dean
-Baker
-Providing information
-Presence during Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] interviews
-FBI reports for Segretti
-Baker’s and Ervin’s desire for secrecy of meeting
-McCord
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Committee counsel’s press conference
-John D. Ehrlichman’s meeting with Ervin and Baker
-McCord as witness
-Threats of press conference
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-Quality
-Testimony
-Ervin
-Assurances
-Relationship with Baker
-Democrats’ scandals
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Baker
-Democrats’ political sabotage
-Baker’s desire for White House assistance
-Henry L. Kimelman
-George S. McGovern’s people
-Fred D. Thompson’s relationship with Ervin
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Ervin and Baker
-Announcement
-President’s role
-Baker’s view
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman’s involvement
-Watergate
-Ehrlichman’s assurances
-Results
-Charles H. Percy
-Statement
-Haldeman
-Desire for presidential nomination
-Illinois
-Percy and Adlai E. Stevenson, III
-Democratic governor
-Future White House actions
-Base closings