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894–2
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • John D. Ehrlichman
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • UNKNOWN
April 12, 1973
Conversation No. 894-2

Date: April 12, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:57 am and 9:55 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President’s schedule

-Meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Paul W. Keyes

-Prisoners of War [POWs]

-Party

-Changes

-Call to President

-Time

-Briefing for President

-Meetings about the economy

-Meeting with the President

-Briefing notes

-Dinner of White House Correspondents’ Association

-Awards

-Refreshments

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 894-2 (cont’d)

-President’s attendance in 1971
-Entertainment
-Reception line
-Mike Curb Congregation
-White House performance

-Reception

-President’s attendance

-Precedents
-Previous meeting
-President’s remarks
-Scheduling

-Keyes

-Meeting with President

-Briefing notes


Bull left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.

John D. Ehrlichman entered the room at an unknow time between 9:17 am and 9:55 am.

Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] suit about dismissed employees
-Status of case
-Administration’s response
-Appeal

-Court decision

-Judge

-Appointment

-Administration’s response

-Appeal


Watergate

-John N. Mitchell

-Ehrlichman’s conversation with William P. Rogers

-Tom Clarke

-Frank J. Lausche

-Special prosecutor

-Necessity

-Mitchell

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Conversation No. 894-2 (cont’d)

-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Implications
-Ervin Committee
-Ehrlichman’s negotiations with Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
-Commencement of hearings
-James W. McCord’s forthcoming testimony
-Ehrlichman’s negotiations with Ervin
-Witness schedule
-Dwight L. Chapin
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Charles Colson
-Corroborating witnesses
-McCord
-Theft of document
-Bernard W. Fensterwald
-Sworn statements from staff
-Impeachment of John W. Dean, III’s investigation
-Attacks by Republicans
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Goldwater
-Peggy [Goldwater?]
-Goldwater
-Characterized
-President’s response to Goldwater’s letter
-William E. Timmons
-Goldwater
-Interview with Godfrey Sperling, Jr.

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:26 am.

Call from Colson
-Return call by the President

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Appearance at Middlesex Club

-Time

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 894-2 (cont’d)


Call from Colson
-Colson’s location

Watergate
-Colson

-Contacts with Ehrlichman

-Fred F. Fielding’s conversations with Colson’s attorney


Base closings
-William E. Timmons
-Memorandum to President
-Henry Bellmon’s candidacy
-Oklahoma

-Pennsylvania

-Portsmouth, New Hampshire

-Kansas

-Robert J. Dole

-Number of employees

-Portsmouth

-Reduction of size

-Dole

-Implications of keeping the base open

-Characterized

-Ramifications of base closings

-Timmons

-Meeting with Dole

-Administration’s point of view
-Ehrlichman meeting
-George H. W. Bush
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Clark MacGregor
-Deal making
-Role as spokesman
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Harlow

-Deal making

-Dole

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 894-2 (cont’d)


Watergate
-Popular impression of President’s activities
-Statements to President
-Motives of participants
-Special prosecutor
-Sworn statements by White House staff
-Investigation
-Dean

-Goldwater, Armstrong

-Reaction to refusal to sign sworn statements

-President’s request for sworn statement

-Dean investigation

-Timing

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Dean investigation

-President’s request for sworn statements

-Sworn statements

-Colson

-Ehrlichman

-Haldeman

-Chapin

-Dean


President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Peter J. Brennan

-Assistance

-Attendance

-Frederick B. Dent

-Brennan

-President’s remarks to Building Trades unions


Watergate
-President’s activity in investigating
-Special prosecutor
-Problems
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


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(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 894-2 (cont’d)

-Selection
-Judges
-Law school deans
-Joseph T. Sneed
-Charles A. Wright
-James Q. Wilson
-Background
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Wright
-Background
-Haldeman
-Possible appearance before Grand Jury
-Volunteering
-Mitchell’s reaction
-Connection with Donald H. Segretti

Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 9:26 am.

President’s schedule

-Meeting with Kissinger


Kissinger left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.

Watergate

-Haldeman

-Statement
-Ervin Committee
-Timing of release
-Content
-Results
-Testimony to Grand Jury
-Volunteering
-Problems
-Mitchell
-State of readiness
-Timing of release
-Grand Jury
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 894-2 (cont’d)

-Previous testimony

-Ehrlichman call to Kleindienst

-Gordon C. Strachan

-Chapin

-Haldeman
-Statement

-Connection with Segretti

-Possible wording

-Ervin Committee
-Televised hearings
-Ehrlichman’s negotiations with Ervin and Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Feedback from committee staff

-Televised hearings

-Haldeman
-Statement
-Name before Grand Jury
-Ehrlichman call to Kleindienst
-Kleindienst’s willingness to give information
-Personnel changes
-Kleindienst’s departure
-New Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] Director
-Special prosecutor
-Ervin Committee
-Forthcoming promulgation of rules
-Ehrlichman’s appearance on “Meet the Press”
-Release of sworn statements by White House staff
-Ehrlichman conversation with Richard A. Moore concerning Mitchell
-McCord’s testimony concerning reports

-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy

-White House

-Ehrlichman conversation with Dean concerning reports

-Strachan

-Chapin

-Statements by White House staff

-Goldwater
-Rogers
-Special prosecutor
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 894-2 (cont’d)

-Possible statement by President
-Implication of Mitchell
-Funds
-Statements on involvement

-Dean

-Ehrlichman

-Haldeman


Brennan
-Country club membership
-President’s request
-Rogers
-Meeting with membership committee chairman

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 9:26 am.

President’s schedule

-Meeting with Kissinger


The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.

Watergate
-White House staff
-Dean
-Haldeman
-Comments by Republicans concerning Haldeman
-Goldwater
-Bush
-Gerald R. Ford
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Ervin on April 11, 1973
-Ervin’s opinion of situation

Ehrlichman left at 9:55 am.
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