Date: March 27, 1973
Time: 4:20 pm 5:20 pm
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Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Weather
Watergate
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
-Postponement
-John W. Dean, III
-John N. Mitchell
-Talk with Haldeman
-Lawrence F. O’Brien
-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s testimony
-Talked with Dean
-Dean’s testimony before grand jury
-Appearance before grand jury
-John J. Sirica
-Call
-William P. Rogers
-Dean
-Independent commission
-Advantages
-Problem
-Exaggeration of case
-President’s discussion with Rogers
-Ehrlichman
-Importance of case
-Other stories
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Prisoners of war [POWs] release
-News reports
POWs
-Patriotism
Watergate
-Rogers’s advice
-Ehrlichman
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-Statement by President
-Value
-Washington Post
-Public statement by President
-Impact
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Walter Jenkins
-Homosexuality
-Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker
-Abe Fortas
-Sirica
-Independent commission
-Mitchell’s opinion
-Dean appearance before grand jury
-Dean
-Testimony to grand jury
– Magruder’s testimony
-Ehrlichman
-Dealings with L. Patrick Gray, III
Ehrlichman
-Vacation
-Return to Washington
Haldeman talked with Dean at an unknown time between 4:20 pm and 4:57 pm.
[Conversation No. 423-13A.]
[See Conversation No. 44-27]
[End of telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Grand jury
-Dean’s plans
-Written statements
-Report from Henry E. Peterson
-Mitchell
-Call from F. Lee Bailey
-Representation of James W. McCord, Jr.
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-Bernard Fensterwald
-Meeting with McCord and Sirica
-Gerald Alch
-President as target of case
-Fensterwald
– Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Senator Committee
-Russell B. Long
-McCord
-Naming of White House staff in Watergate
-Magruder and Dean
-Revelations
-Disclosure
-Investigation of Kennedy
-Involvement
-Kennedy
-Investigation
-Magruder
-Legitimate intelligence activities
-Washington Post stories
-Dramatic steps by President
-Necessity
-Dean’s advice
-Ehrlichman’s advice
-McCord
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Criticism of Commission counsel’s conduct
-News reports
-Fensterwald
-McCord
-Source of funds
-Mitchell
-Magruder
-Independence commission
-Rogers’s opposition
-President’s public statement
-Comments on Mitchell
-Charles W. Colson’s advice
-Executive privilege
-Executive privilege
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-Uses
-Pre-June 17, 1972
-Testimony to Congress
-Criminal case
-Justice Department’s jurisdiction
-Mitchell’s interpretation
-Kleindienst
-Call to Sirica
-Special counsel
-Sirica’s plans
-Cooperation of White House staff
The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower between 4:57 pm and 4:58 pm.
[Conversation No. 423-13-B]
[See Conversation No. 44-28]
[End of telephone conversation]
Watergate
-White House staff
-Cooperation with courts
-Clemency
-President’s opposition
-Dean’s investigation
-Ziegler’s statement
-Grand jury appearances
-Sirica’s agreement
-Ervin Committee
-William P. Rogers
-Jurisdiction over criminal cases
-Colson
-Advice on issue
-Ervin Committee
-Need to neutralize
Haldeman talked with Colson at an unknown time between 4:48 pm and 5:20 pm.
[Conversation No. 423-13C]
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[See Conversation No. 44-30]
[End of telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Special prosecutor
-Colson’s opposition
-James W. McCord Jr.’s charges
-Substance
-Administration overreaction
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:57 pm and 5:20 pm.
[Conversation No. 423-13D]
Haldeman’s schedule
[End of telephone conversation]
Watergate
-White House
-Cooperation with investigators
-Compared with Warren Commission
-Colson
-Mitchell
-Dean
-Role in Watergate
-Comment about McCord
-Implication of Mitchell, Magruder
-Magruder
-Former White House job
-Herbert G. Klein
-Colson
-Mitchell
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