906–4

Conversation No. 906-4

Date: April 27, 1973
Time: 8:05am - 8:35 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate

-John W. Dean III

-Meeting with Leonard Garment

-Garment’s report to Ziegler

-Dean’s attitude toward the President

-Changes by the President

-Possible action by President

-Dean’s attitudes

-President
-John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
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Tape Subject Log

(rev. October-2012)

Conversation No. 906-4 (cont’d)

-Watergate break-in
-President’s knowledge
-Involvement of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Reports to Haldeman
-Materials withheld from Federal Bureau of Investigation
[FBI]
-Dean’s possible testimony
-Conversations with Haldeman and Ehrlichman after June 17, 1972
-President’s knowledge
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-Herbert W. Kalmbach

-Denial of information to FBI

-Possible action by President
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Dean, Gordon C. Strachan
-President’s responsibility
-Information given by Dean to Earl J. Silbert
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Possible threat against the President

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:05 am.

Telephone call for Manolo Sanchez

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:35 am.

Watergate
-Resignations

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman, and Dean

-Timing

-Dean

-Leaves of absence

-President’s standards for staff

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s successor

-William M. Byrne, Jr.

-Daniel Ellsberg case

-William D. Ruckelshaus

-Attorney General appointment

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)

Conversation No. 906-4 (cont’d)

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Departures from White House

-Timing

-Effect of resignations

-Ziegler, William E. Timmons
-Grand jury action
-Dean’s possible departure
-Haldeman
-Statement concerning White House staff involvement
-Ziegler, Timmons and Richard A. Moore
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible resignations
-Timing
-President’s forthcoming speech
-President’s responsibility for Watergate
-Possible content
-Education and format
-Popular sympathy for President
-Timing of President’s forthcoming speech
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-President’s trip to Mississippi
-Press reaction
-Special prosecutor
-Henry E. Petersen
-Advantages
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Mississippi
-President’s conduct of business
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Departures from White House staff
-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Conversation with Ziegler
-Forthcoming telephone call from Ziegler
-Role on White House staff
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Timing
-Grand jury
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. October-2012)

Conversation No. 906-4 (cont’d)

-President’s counsel

-William P. Rogers, John B. Connally

-Rose

-President’s forthcoming speech

-Timing

-Indictment of John N. Mitchell

-Staffing

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-FBI director

-Attorney General

-Communications staff

-William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Columnists’ view of President
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston, James J. Kilpatrick, Jr., Smith Hempstone, Jr.,
Crosby S. Noyes
-Action by President

-Possible Congressional rhetoric

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman


Ziegler left 8:35 am.