Date: April 19, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:29 pm and 12:48 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President and Ronald L. Ziegler entered. This recording began at an unknown time while
the conversation was in progress.
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Statement
-Contents
-Ziegler’s response to possible questions
-Notification of Ziegler
-Christopher Leyen story in the New York Times
-Dean’s activities
-Report
-Meetings with President
-Dean
-Ziegler’s response to possible questions
-Henry E. Petersen’s opinion
-Instructions for Ziegler on telephone call
Ziegler talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:29 pm and 12:48
pm.
[Conversation No. 902-5A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 38-106]
[End telephone conversation]
Dean
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Conversation No. 902-5 (cont’d)
Return call
Ziegler’s statement
-President’s authorization
Ziegler talked with Dean at an unknown time between 12:29 pm and 12:48 pm.
[Conversation No. 902-5B]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[Conversation No. 38-107]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Ziegler’s conversation with Dean
-Story about Dean
-Magruder [?]
President’s meeting with Jewish leaders
-Soviet Jews
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-Soviet Union
-Communication
-Exemption
-US cooperation
-Freedom of emigration
Watergate
-Dean
-President’s public posture
-Conversation with President, March 21, 1973
-President’s reaction
-Dean’s report
-Possible indictment
-Conversations with President concerning Watergate
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Conversation No. 902-5 (cont’d)
-President’s previous public statement
-William L. Safire’s column
-Washington Post editorial
-President’s April 19, 1973, conversation with Petersen
-Dean’s role in Watergate
-Immunity
-Corroborative evidence
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Reports
-President
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Ziegler
-President’s August 29, 1972, statement
-Role in investigation after March 21