906–24

Conversation No. 906-24

Date: April 27, 1973
Time: 6:49 pm - 8:04 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Watergate
-Seymour M. Hersh story
-John W. Dean, III
-March 21, 1973 conversation with President and Haldeman
-Dean’s beliefs
-President’s statements concerning funds
-Haldeman’s actions
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Conversation No. 906-24 (cont’d)

-Conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s reaction
-President’s conversation with Henry E. Petersen
-Paul L. O’Brien’s story
-William O. Bittman
-Dean
-Involvement with funds
-Conversations with President and Haldeman
-Frederick C. LaRue’s delivery
-March 21, 1973 conversation with President and Haldeman
-Dean report
-Credibility compared with President, Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-Ronald L. Ziegler’s view

-Patrick J. Buchanan’s view

-Reasons for actions
-Presidency
-Dean, Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Possible leaves of absence

-Duration

-Timing

-Dean
-Timing of interviews

-US Attorney

-Samuel Dash

-John J. Wilson’s view

-Departures linked to Dean’s departure

-Wilson’s view

-Possible leaves of absence

-President’s schedule
-Camp David
-President’s forthcoming statement
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Leaves of absence
-Dean
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Conversation No. 906-24 (cont’d)

-Departure from White House staff

-Form

-Notification

-Leonard Garment
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Departures from White House staff

-Dean

-Wilson’s view

-Public impression
-Charges against Ehrlichman
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Burning of files
-Robert Lee Vesco
-Libya
-Embassy
-Ellsberg break-in
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] questioning, April 27, 1973
-Dean
-Veracity
-Attacks on President
-Hersh story
-Ziegler’s story

-New York Times

-Bittman

-O’Brien

-Dean’s statement about President

-Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward story

-President’s conversation with Petersen

-Charles A. Shaffer’s statements to prosecutors, April 23, 1973
-Bittman, Hunt conversation
-Plumbers
-Hersh
-John N. Mitchell and Haldeman
-Woodward story
-Compared with Woodward
-Conversation with Wilson
-Evidence against Haldeman and Ehrlichman
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Conversation No. 906-24 (cont’d)

-Story concerning President

-Bittman, O’Brien

-Dean
-Lawyers
-Story to lawyer
-Conversation with Ziegler concerning Haldeman
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Leaves of absence
-Timing and effect
-Dean’s departure from staff
-Richard A. Moore
-Relationship with Dean
-Garment
-Compared with Moore
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Leaves of absence
-News leads

-Washington, DC

-Meridian, Mississippi

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Timing of release of statements
-Gray
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Timing of release of statements
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Request for Dean’s departure
-Compared to Senator, Nikita S. Khruschev
-Dean
-Possible indictment
-Petersen’s view

-Negotiations with prosecutors

-Possible meeting with President

-Departure from White House staff
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Resignation

-Possible meeting with President

-Leaves of absence
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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(rev. October-2012)

Conversation No. 906-24 (cont’d)

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Timing of leaves of absence
-Camp David
-Meeting with President

-Firing of Gray and Dean

-Leaves of absence

-Statement
-President’s response
-Dean
-Garment’s request
-Departure from White House staff
-Leave of absence
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Timing of departure
-Dean
-Dean
-Possible conversation with President
-Petersen’s advice
-Garment as intermediary

-Replacement

-White House counsel

-Ehrlichman’s opinion
-Robert Walters’s conversation with Gerald L. Warren
-Lawrence M. Higby
-Information from prosecution
-Higby
-Involvement
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Conduct from Dean
-Dean
-Possession of documentary evidence

-Payments to Committee to Reelect the President [CRP]

-$350,000

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Departures from White House staff
-Departure of Dean
-Possible instructions from President
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(rev. October-2012)

Conversation No. 906-24 (cont’d)

-Dean
-Garment as representative for President
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Schedules

-President’s schedule

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Leaves of absence
-Timing
-President’s forthcoming speech
-President’s refusal to see Dean
-Request for Garment to speak to Dean
-Notes to Garment, Dean
-Departure from White House staff
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Departures from White House staff
-News leads
-Separation from Dean
-Timing
-Dean
-Possible meeting with President
-Garment
-Separation from Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Timing of statements

-President’s schedule

-Speech

-Willy Brandt

-Meeting with President
-Diplomatic credentials
-German Ambassador [Bundt von Staden]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:49 pm.

President’s schedule

-Diplomatic credentials

-German Ambassador

-Brandt’s arrival ceremonies

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Conversation No. 906-24 (cont’d)

-Camp David

-Helicopter

-Bull’s telephone call to Rose Mary Woods



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Press relations

-Ziegler


Bull left at an unknown time before 8:00 pm.

Watergate
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Use of Camp David

-Departures from White House staff

-Dean

-Evidence against President

-Control of Dean

-Departure from staff

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Request for leaves of absence

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. October-2012)

Conversation No. 906-24 (cont’d)

-Garment as counsel

-President’s conversation with Petersen

-Dean

-Hearsay

-Evidence against President

-Use

-Effect

-Feelings concerning Presidency

-John Wilkes Booth

-Actions

-Use of confidential information

-Ellsberg break-in

-President’s schedule

-Camp David

-Work on speech

-Impact

-Popular support for President

-Meridian, Mississippi

-News stories

-Gallup poll on Watergate

-Importance of Watergate as issue

-John C. Stennis

-President’s schedule

-Price’s visit to Camp David

-Ziegler

-Hersh and Woodward stories

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:49 pm and
8:02 pm.

[Conversation No. 906-24A]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 45-37]

[End telephone conversation]
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Conversation No. 906-24 (cont’d)


Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:49 pm.

President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Dog
-Helicopter

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:02 pm.

The President talked with Ziegler between 8:02 pm and 8:03 pm.

[Conversation No. 906-24B]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 45-38]

[End telephone conversation]

Ziegler’s location

-Price


Watergate

-Ziegler’s visit to Camp David

-President’s upcoming speech


Haldeman left at 8:04 pm.