Date: April 17, 1973
Time: 9:30 am-9:46 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Leonard Garment.
Watergate
-Henry E. Petersen
-William P. Rogers
-Garment’s memo
-Timing of actions
-Petersen
-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s negotiations
-John W. Dean, III’s negotiations with Ervin Committee
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-Resignations
-Dean
-US attorneys
-Action by President
-Credibility before American people
-Effects
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Resignation
-Suspension
-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2011)
-John N. Mitchell
-Telephone call to Garment, April 16, 1973
-Possible visit by Garment
-Martha (“Beall”) Mitchell
-Role in Watergate
-Action by President
-Public opinion concerning President’s position on Watergate
-Rose
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-US attorney
-Meeting with President
-Richard G. Kleindienst [?]
-Dean
-Report
-Mitchell
-Possible statement by President
-Public opinion
-Public knowledge of leading officials
-Henry A. Kissinger, Mitchell, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman
-Compared to Sherman Adams [?]
-Watergate crisis
-Comparison with Teapot Dome
-Action by President
-Garment’s schedule
-Rose, Dean
Garment left at 9:46 am.