Watergate
-Preservation of the Presidency
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Possible resignations
-Haldeman
-Unidentified co-conspirators
-John N. Mitchell, Jeb Stuart Magruder, Frederick C. LaRue, Paul L. O’Brien
-Haldeman, Gordon C. Strachan, Ehrlichman
-Effect
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible departures
-Effect on Presidency
-Haldeman
-Role
-Effect of departure
-Assertion of President’s authority
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler, April 18, 1973
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:20 pm.
President’s schedule
-Helicopter for Camp David
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:33 pm.
Watergate
-Continued revelations
-Magruder, John W. Dean, III
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 901-2 (cont’d)
-Target
-Effect on Presidency
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Replacements
-John B. Connally
-Domestic side
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Military role
-Bureaucrat
-William P. Rogers’s departure
-Timing
-Cabinet
-Tightening of administration
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Possible appointment
-Loyalty
-Preservation of Presidency
-James T. Lynn
-Possible appointment
-Loyalty
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Compared to Rush
-Domestic orientation
-Kissinger’s conversation with Ziegler, April 18, 1973
-White House staff departures
-Strachan, Dean
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:20 pm.
Message to President
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:33 pm.
-Kissinger’s conversation with Ziegler, April 18, 1973
-Resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Behind power curve
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