895–23

Conversation No. 895-23

Date: April 13, 1973
Time: 4:22 pm - 4:41 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Watergate

-Ehrlichman’s schedule

-Meeting with unknown man

-Charles W. Colson

-Ervin Committee

-Conversation with Ehrlichman

-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Ervin Committee

-Press

-Effect on Grand Jury


Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:26 pm

Kissinger’schedule

-Speech


Ehrlichman left at 4:26 pm

Joseph J. Sisco
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)

Conversation No. 895-23 (cont’d)

-Briefing for President’s meeting

-Purpose

-Middle East

-William P. Rogers

-Paris trip

-Cooperation with Kissinger

-Secretive nature of the meeting


Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Press story
-Source

-Meeting with President

-Story

-Avoidance of indicating crisis

-National Security Council [NSC]

-Decision making timeline

-Haig’s opinion

Vietnam
-Military action
-Areas

-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]

-Quang Tri

-Supply line
-Negotiations

-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

-North Vietnam

-USSR

-Leonid I. Brezhnev

-Political standing


USSR
-Nuclear treaty

-Kissinger’s work with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

-Dobrynin’s negotiating stance

-Kissinger’s cooperation

-Summit meeting

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. April-2011)

Conversation No. 895-23 (cont’d)

-Schedule

-Brezhnev’s political standing

-Possible removal

-Nuclear treaty

-Progress

-USSR’s negotiating styl


Vietnam

-Military action in South Vietnam

-Justification

-Settlement agreement violations

-Shock

-Involvement

Kissinger left at 4:30 pm.