Secret White House Tapes

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906–17
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry E. Petersen
April 27, 1973
Conversation No. 906-17

Date: April 27, 1973
Time: 5:37 pm - 5:43 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry E. Petersen.

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was also prepared Richard Nixon’s
Special White House Counsel for Watergate Matters and submitted to the Committee on the
Judiciary of the House of Representatives. This transcript can be found in Submission of
Recorded Presidential Conversations (SRPC), pages 1257-1260 (1-4). Please refer to the
logging below.]

President’s schedule

-Mississippi


Watergate

-Seymour M. Hersh

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Conversation No. 906-17 (cont’d)

-Conversation with William O. Bittman concerning New York Times
information
-John W. Dean, III’s statement to prosecutors implicating President
-Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward’s information
-Petersen’s meeting with prosecutors
-Seymour Glanzer, Harold H. Titus, Jr., Earl J. Silbert, Donald E. Campbell
-Statements by Dean implicating President
-Petersen’s April 25, 1973 meeting with prosecutors
-President

-Petersen’s April 26, 1973 conversation with Titus

-Petersen’s knowledge of information concerning President

-President’s March 21, 1973 conversation with Dean

-Bittman’s request for $120,000 for E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-President’s response
-Petersen’s legal mandate
-House of Representatives
-Petersen’s forthcoming call to prosecutors

-Cabinet Room telephone

-Silbert, Titus

-Hersh, Woodward

-Dean’s statement about President

Petersen left at 5:43 pm.
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