Secret White House Tapes

898–4

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898–4
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Leonard Garment
April 17, 1973
Conversation No. 898-4

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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Conversation No. 898-4 (cont’d)

-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.
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