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869–13
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • John W. Dean
March 6, 1973
Conversation No. 869-13

Date: March 6, 1973
Time: 11:49 am-12:00 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John W. Dean III.

Watergate
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Confirmation hearings
-Talks with Dean
-Work with Senate committee
-Cooperation
-Reports in newspapers
-Richard G. Kleindienst
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
Conversation No. 869-13 (cont’d)



-Cooperation
-Strategy in dealing with committee
-Hardline
-Raw files
-Problems in disclosing
-Nomination
-Possible withdrawal
-James O. Eastland
-Kleindienst's conversation with Eastland
-Votes in committee
-Phillip A. Hart, Birch E. Bayh, Jr., Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy, John
V. Tunney
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Interview with WTOP radio
-Dean's testimony
-Peter M. Flanigan's testimony
-Executive privilege
-Position characterized
-Statement
-Dean's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Former White House staff
-Privilege
-Dwight L. Chapin, Charles W. Colson, Gordon C. Strachan
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Interviews with Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP] staff members
-Penny Gleason
-Background
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Talk with FBI
-Gray rebuttal
-Gray
-Nomination
-Administration support
-Confirmation
-Standards
-Performance with committee
-Administration's opinion
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
Conversation No. 869-13 (cont’d)



-FBI
-Cartha D. (\"Deke\") DeLoach
-William C. Sullivan
-Report on past activities by FBI
-Report to Dean
-Dealings with Dean
-John W. Chancellor
-Derogatory information
-United States Information Agency [USIA]
-Change in file
-Lyndon B. Johnson's orders
-Examples of misdoings
-Ervin Committee
-White House position
-Talks with Kleindienst
-Concern about Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Baker's statement
-Chicago Tribune
-Reasons
-Witnesses
-Preparation
-President's handling of Alger Hiss case
-Baker
-Ervin
-Executive privilege
-White House staff appearances
-Problems
-Gray
-Dean
-Double privilege
-President's position on executive privilege
-Press questions
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-Hypothetical questions
-Dean's contact with Mollenhoff on the A. Ernest
Fitzgerald case
-Gray
-Intelligence
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
Conversation No. 869-13 (cont’d)



-Hiss case
-Perjury charge
-Whittaker Chambers
-Witnesses
-Preparation
-Baker
-Cross examination
-Abilities

Dean left at 12:00 pm.
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