Date: April 16, 1973
Time: 8:58 pm -9:14 pm
Location: White House Telephone
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The President talked with Henry E. Petersen.
[See also Conversation No. 427-17]
[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was 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 966-979 (1-14). Please refer to the logging below.]
Petersen’s schedule
Watergate
-Information for President
-Frederick C. LaRue
-Paul L. O’Brien
-Conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Budget meeting with Mitchell
-John W. Dean III
-Mitchell’s actions
-O’Brien
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Lawyer (Charles W. Colson’s law partner)
-LaRue
-Conversation with Mitchell
-John D. Ehrlichman
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy’s June 19, 1972 confession to Dean
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-Advice to E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Colson and Dean
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Mitchell’s conversation with Dean concerning Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Authority from Haldeman
-Petersen’s negotiations with Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Lawyers’ concern
-John J. Sirica
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Jail
-Harold H. Titus, Jr.
-Charges
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman as unindicted co- conspirators
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-Need for corroboration
-Procedures
-Mitchell
-Sirica’s interrogation of defendants
-Magruder
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Possible immunity
-Corroboration of testimony
-Strachan
-Dean’s story on Liddy
-Conversation with Ehrlichman concerning Liddy’s June 19, 1972 statement
-Conversation with President
-Contrasted with conversations with Earl J. Silbert
-Haldeman
-Authority for Dean to contact Kalmbach
-Mitchell’s order
The President conferred with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:58 and 9:14
pm.
[Begin conferral]
Greetings
[End conferral]
Watergate
-$350,000
-Haldeman’s control
-Use by LaRue
-Maurice H. Stans’s committee
-Possible statement by President
-Ron Ostrow’s call to Petersen
Los Angeles Times
-Report on White House staff
-Source
-Charles Colson
-Presence during Ehrlichman’s order to Hunt
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