40–33

Conversation No. 40-33

Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 1:24 pm - 1:41 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with J. Fred Buzhardt.

[See also Conversation No. 444-19]

Watergate

-Memorandum from Rose Mary Woods

-Questions for John W. Dean, III

-Dean

-Conversations with President

-Date

-Role on White House staff

-Henry E. Petersen

-Conversations

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Petersen

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-Petersen

-Possible cross-examination of Dean

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Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 40-33 (cont’d)

-President
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Gray, Petersen
-Possible cross-examination

-Meetings with Gray and Petersen

-Logs

-Acquisition by Buzhardt

-Dates

-Telephone call to Gray and Petersen

-Ehrlichman

-June 15 appearance before Ervin Committee

-Private sessions

-Meetings with President

-Leaks

-White House response

-Tone

-Preparation

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Cox

-Forthcoming announcement

-Possible content

-Dean

-John J. Sirica

-Transactional immunity

-Prosecutors’ statements

-Petersen

-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony

-White House response

-Buzhardt’s survey of news summaries
-Progress
-Items examined
-President’s notations
-Maurice H. Stans
-Haldeman
-President’s knowledge
-President’s notations
-Dean
-Possible cross-examination

-Funds for defendants

-Timing

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 40-33 (cont’d)

-Clemency for defendants
-Timing
-Conversations with President
-Funds for E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and William O. Bittman
-Timing
-Charles W. Colson
-Conversation with Bittman
-Timing
-Bittman’s demand for funds
-Amount
-Timing
-President’s March 21 conversation with Dean
-Mitchell, Thomas A. Pappas

-Dean’s conversation with Colson

-Hunt, Bittman

-Dean
-Conversations with President
-Timing
-Content
-Significance of dates
-Telephone talks with President
-Florida
-Hunt
-Timing
-Possible cross-examination
-Buzhardt’s preparation

-Date

-President’s notes and recollections

-Reason

-Ziegler

-Conversations with President
-March 21, 1973
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr., Dean
-Dean’s June 19, 1972 conversation with G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Dean’s subsequent conversation with Ehrlichman
-Date

-Content

-Liddy

-Knowledge of Daniel Ellsberg break-in

-Date

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 40-33 (cont’d)

-Fred F. Fielding’s trip to Europe
-[First name unknown] Shanoop [sp?]
-Secretary to Hunt, Liddy and David R. Young
-Reasons
-Krogh, Ehrlichman, and Dean