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441-023a

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441-023a
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • J. Fred. Buzhardt
  • UNKNOWN
  • Manolo Sanchez
June 5, 1973
Conversation No. 441-23

Date: June 5, 1973
Time: 5:29 pm - 7:14 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

Watergate

-Charles A. Wright’s paper on executive privilege

-Hugh Scott

-Buzhardt’s efforts

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Leonard Garment

-President’s activities
-John B. Connally’s view
-Firing of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Popular opinion
-Connally’s view

-President’s activities

-Executive privilege

-Wright’s paper
-Aaron Burr case

-John Marshall

-James St. D. Clair expedition

-Thomas Jefferson

-Papers
-Marshall’s ruling
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 441-23 (cont’d)

-President’s possible role

-National interest

-John W. Dean, III

-Files

-Relevancy to Watergate

-Charles W. Colson

-Conversation with Buzhardt and Colson’s attorney

-Executive privilege

-Files

-National security

-Plumbers

-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s notes

-Procedures

-Possible subpoena

-Possible response

-Supreme Court

-Procedures

-Contents

-Haldeman’s notes

-John J. Sirica


Smoking
-Buzhardt
-President

Melvin R. Laird
-Cigars
-Role on White House staff
-Strength

Watergate
-Executive privilege

-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s notes

-Procedures

-Wright’s paper

-Blanket subpoenas
-Subpoenas of May 25, 1973

-Buzhardt

-National Archives and Records Service

-Earl J. Silbert

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 441-23 (cont’d)

-Subpoenas
-Specificity
-Committee’s records
-Tapes from Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Tapes
-Howard K. Smith
-Forthcoming interview with Smith
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Colson
-Possible television appearance
-John L. McClellan Committee testimony
-Contradictions
-Buzhardt’s conversations with Frank H. Strickler and John Wilson
-Ehrlichman’s statements
-Counsel’s work
-Mexican money
-Conversations with President
-Meeting with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters and L[ouis]
Patrick Gray, III
-John N. Mitchell, Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Conflicting testimony
-Reasons
-Richard A. Moore
-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Possible memorandum
-March 19, 1973 meeting with President and Dean
-March 14, 15-20, 1973 meetings with President and Dean
-Meetings with Dean
-Quality as witness
-President’s conversations with Dean before March 21, 1973
-Cover-up
-Dean
-Role
-Gray hearings
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman’s activities
-Ervin Committee
-Executive privilege
-Gray nomination
-March 14, 15, 1973 meetings with President and Moore
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 441-23 (cont’d)

-Patrick J. Buchanan’s preparation of questions and answers book for
press conference
-Executive privilege
-Supreme Court
-Alger Hiss case
-Executive privilege, Hiss case
-White House, Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], Justice
Department

-March 19, 1973 meeting with President and Moore

-March 20, 1973 meeting with President and Moore

-White House response

-FBI

-Use by Lyndon B. Johnson

-Meetings with President

-White House staff involvement

-Gordon C. Strachan
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Strachan
-Testimony
-Haldeman
-Lie detector tests
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Henry E. Petersen
-Results
-Samuel Dash
-Possible subpoena of President’s logs by Ervin Committee concerning
meetings with Dean

-Garment

-White House response

-Motive
-Dean

-Possible subpoena of President’s logs

-White House response

-Archibald Cox
-Possible subpoena

-White House response

-Specificity

-Dean’s files
-Custody
-Secret Service
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 441-23 (cont’d)

-FBI
-Dean
-Meetings with President

-Petersen

-Strachan

-Break-in of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office

-President’s response to information

-Contacts with Petersen and Richard G. Kleindienst
-Ellsberg break-in
-President’s knowledge
-Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Meeting April 16, 1973 with President
-Resignation
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-President’s April 15, 1973 meeting with Kleindienst and Petersen
-Resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman, Magruder’s testimony
-President’s April 16, 1973 meeting with Dean
-Resignation
-Dean
-President’s conversation with Petersen, April 16, 1973
-President’s conversation with Petersen, April 29, 1973
-Petersen
-Possible blackmail by Dean
-Gray
-FBI inquiry
-Dean’s comments to President
-Dean
-Conversations with President

-Strachan

-Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman

-Haldeman and $320,000

-Ehrlichman and Herbert W. Kalmbach

-Haldeman
-Money
-Order from Dean
-Ehrlichman
-Order to Kalmbach concerning money for defendants
-Angela Y. Davis
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 441-23 (cont’d)

-Motives concerning funds for defendants
-Dean
-Conversations with President
-March 22, 1973 with Haldeman and Mitchell

-Mitchell’s position

-President’s desire for full disclosure

-Ehrlichman, Dean
-President’s call from Florida

-Dean’s subsequent trip to Camp David

-James McCord

-$1,000,000
-March 21, 1973 meeting
-Call from Florida
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Buzhardt
-Role on intelligence evaluation committee
-Robert F. Frohlke
-Dean
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President

-Funds for defendants

-Clemency offer

-March 22, 1973 meeting with President, Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Mitchell
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President
-Clemency offer

-Subornation of perjury

-Funds for defendants

-Blackmail

-William O. Bittman
-President’s knowledge
-White House staff procedures
-Dean
-Conversations with President
-Content
-Ervin Committee
-March 21, 1973
-President’s response
-Investigations by Dean and Ehrlichman
-Possible White House response to testimony
-Testimony of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Moore
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 441-23 (cont’d)

-President’s possible statement

-Connally’s view

-President’s possible testimony
-Ervin Committee
-Grand jury
-Precedent
-Andrew Johnson

-Possible White House response

-White House response
-Gerald L. Warren
-Legal questions
-Dean
-President’s call from Florida

-Dean’s subsequent call to Ziegler

-Dean’s possible pleading

-Petersen
-Advice to President
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr. break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
-National security
-Meeting with President and Kleindienst
-Ellsberg information to William M. Byrne, Jr.
-President’s activities, April 15 - April 30, 1973
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Dean
-Resignations of Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean
-Dean
-Meeting with Buzhardt, June 3, 1973

-Logs

-Possible release to Dash

-Conversations with President

-Lawyer’s story

-Timing

-Possible immunity
-Conversations with President

-Seymour M. Hersh’s story

-Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s story

-September 15, 1972

-Indictments of defendants
-Haldeman’s notes
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] investigation of Larry F. O’Brien
and Howard Hughes
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 441-23 (cont’d)

-Campaign tactics
-Dean’s efforts
-Haldeman
-Signing of President’s will
-Memorandum to Haldeman
-Organization of Counsel’s office
-Frederic V. Malek’s study
-1972 campaign
-Haldeman’s response
-Role in 1972 campaign
-Financing law
-Fred F. Fielding’s work
-Documents in lock box

-Buzhard’s efforts

-Meeting with Buzhardt, June 2, 1973
-Paycheck
-Staff members’ files
-Location
-Archives
-Certificate
-Dean’s files
-Certification
-Contacts with Buzhardt


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

[National security]

[Duration: 19 s ]



INTELLIGENCE


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 441-23 (cont’d)

Watergate
-Dean
-Meeting with Buzhardt, June 2, 1973
-Dean’s possible testimony
-Files
-Files
-Return of personal materials
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] investigation
-Robert Vesco
-ITT investigation
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]

-Removal of boxes to Justice Department

-Vesco

-Buzhardt’s forthcoming conversations
-Ralph E. Erickson, Justice Department
-William J. Casey
-Erickson
-William Rehnquist
-Removal of boxes to Justice Department
-Casey

-Vesco

-Possible White House response

-Backgrounders
-Woodward and Bernstein
-Buzhardt’s conversations with Woodward
-Washington Post
-Forthcoming trials

-Possible Dean testimony

-Outcome

-Interest

-Possible motions

-Effect

-Mitchell, Magruder, Frederick D. LaRue

-LaRue

-Funds for defendants
-Testimony
-Dean
-Meeting with Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Monroe in California, February
1973
-Wiretaps
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 441-23 (cont’d)

-Robert C. Mardian’s testimony
-Meeting with President in 1971 in San Clemente
-William C. Sullivan’s view
-President’s instructions to Mardian

-Wiretap log

-Ziegler’s statement

-President’s recollection

-Ehrlichman

-Buzhardt’s conversation with Mardian and his lawyer

-Ellsberg case

-Ehrlichman’s call to Mardian

-Mardian’s statement

-Sullivan

-President’s instructions

-Mardian’s conversations concerning visit to San Clemente

-Ellsberg case

-Meeting with President, Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-Wire service leads

-Scott’s statement

-Johnson’s John F. Kennedy’s wiretaps


Johnny Mathis
-President’s assessment
-Buzhardt’s assessment

Watergate
-White House response

Buzhardt’s schedule

Watergate
-White House response

-Ervin Committee, Cox

-President as defendant

-Dean

-Statements

-Immunity

-Senate

-Forthcoming indictment

-Cox vs. Dash

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 441-23 (cont’d)

-Dean
-Use immunity
-Possible indictment
-Cox
-Blanket indictments
-Possible effect
-Possible trials

-Dean

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Possible indictments
-Possible indictments
-Mitchell, Magruder
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Strachan
-Sally Harmony
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy

-Colson

-Kalmbach

-Kalmbach
-Funds for defendants
-Expectation of indictments
-Thomas A. Pappas
-Funds for defendants
-Mitchell

-Mitchell’s possible testimony

-President’s March 21, 1973 conversation with Dean

-Mitchell

-Pappas

-Intent

-Mitchell

-Conflict between self-interest and animosity
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Mitchell
-Role in bugging and cover-up
-Dean’s subornation of Magruder’s perjury
-Pappas’s fund-raising
-President’s March 21, 1973 meeting with Dean

-President’s relations with Pappas

-Fundraising efforts

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 441-23 (cont’d)

-Maurice H. Stans

-Dean

-Possible statements

-Effect
-Conversations with President
-White House response
-Credibility of Dean
-Conversations with President
-Lawyers’ efforts
-Woodward’s and Hirsh’s efforts
-Timing
-Log for January 1973
-Requests for March 1973 and April 1973 logs
-Possession of logs
-April 19, 1973 request of Jack Nessitt

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:29 pm.

President’s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:14 pm.

Watergate

-Dean

-Meetings with President
-Kleindienst’s impression
-Buzhardt’s impression
-Statements to lawyers
-Charles N. Shaffer
-Lawyers’ actions
-Possible immunity
-Cox
-Prosecutors’ view
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President and Haldeman
-President’s methodology
-Ehrlichman
-Funds for defendants
-Haldeman
-Amnesty, clemency, funds for defendants
-Dean’s possible statements
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 441-23 (cont’d)

-Bittman

-Possible subpoena of President’s papers

-White House response

-Cox and Dash

-White House response

-Dean’s meetings with President

-Logs

-Dates

-Haldeman

-Buzhardt’s possible call to Dash


Buzhardt left at 7:14 pm.
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