44–61

Conversation No. 44-61

Date: March 28, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:50 pm and 9:09 pm
Location: White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the President.

[See also Conversation No. 425-26]

Watergate
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Grand jury appearance
-Immunity
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-John J. Sirica
-Subpoena for grand jury
-Effect on information for White House
-Hunt
-Lawyer’s report to Paul L. O’Brien
-Grand jury’s offer of immunity
-George D. Webster’s call to John W. Dean, III
-Meeting with Howard H. Baker, Jr.’s assistant, Hugh Branson
-Baker’s desire for liaison with White House
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Murray M. Chotiner
-Webster
-William E. Timmons’ call to Branson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 44-61 (cont’d)



-Dean
-John N. Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Need for criminal lawyer
-Hiring by Dean
-Dissemination of information
-Mitchell
-New York grand jury
-Diary showing meetings
-Story
-White House staff involvement after break-in
-Hunt’s testimony
-McCord’s knowledge
-Timmons
-Webster
-Dean
-Mitchell’s story
-Meetings
-Dean’s story
-Prior knowledge
-Magruder
-Mitchell
-Plea
-Executive privilege
-Mitchell and Magruder
-McCord’s possible knowledge
-G. Gordon Liddy
-Preparations for Mitchell meeting
-Approval of plan
-Mitchell
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell’s call to the New York Times
-Allegations
-Target
-McCord
-Target of allegations
-Magruder
-Mitchell’s reaction
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Hospitalization of Martha Mitchell
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 44-61 (cont’d)



-Magruder
-Approval of Liddy’s plan
-Dean
-Criminal lawyer
-Possibilities
-Support from President
-Necessity of testimony
-Fifth Amendment
-Firing
-Testimony
-Fifth Amendment
-Lawyer-client relationship
-Haldeman
-McCord
-Grand jury
-Sirica
-Ervin Committee
-Charles W. Colson