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909–29
- President Richard M. Nixon
- John D. Ehrlichman
May 2, 1973
Conversation No. 909-29
Date: May 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:13 pm and 4:56 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
Watergate
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Krogh’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-John W. Dean, III’s conversation with President
-Richard G. Kleindienst’s conversation with President
-Krogh’s possible affidavit regarding Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Content
-David R. Young, Jr.’s possible actions
-Forthcoming New York Times story
-Krogh’s role
-Timing of Krogh’s affidavit
-Krogh’s conversation with Richardson
-Dean
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-29 (cont’d)
-President’s conversation with Henry E. Petersen
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s testimony
-Ellsberg break-in
-Krogh’s possible affidavit
-Petersen
-Dean’s conversation with Krogh, November 1972
-Petersen, L[ouis] Patrick Gray, and Earl J. Silbert
-Petersen’s role
-Prosecutions
-Ellsberg break-in
-Krogh’s conversation with Richardson
-President’s conversation with Kleindienst
-President’s conversations with Dean
-President’s possible conversation with Richardson
-Ehrlichman’s notes
-National Security Council [NSC] leak to Jack N. Anderson
-Bangladesh and Pakistan issue
-Rose Mary Woods’s safe
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-President’s possible conversation with Richardson
-President’s conversations with Dean
-Photograph of G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Justice Department
-Petersen
-Richardson’s handling of case
-Petersen and Silbert
-Need for disclosure
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Photograph of Liddy
-Possible reporting
-National security
-Dean’s conversations with Ehrlichman
-Petersen
-Timing
-Dean’s conversation with Krogh
-Ehrlichman’s response
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-29 (cont’d)
-Ellsberg case
-Petersen
-Ehrlichman’s assessment
-US Supreme Court
-President’s knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Dean’s conversations with President
-Photograph of Liddy
-Dean
-Petersen
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] and FBI
-CIA and FBI
-Gray and Silbert
-Dean’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Petersen
-Krogh
-Conversation with Richardson regarding Ellsberg break-in
-Forthcoming resignation
-New York Times story
-Young’s employment
-President’s knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Petersen
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Timing
-Plumbers
-Hunt
-Dean’s conversation with prosecutors
-President’s subsequent meeting with Kleindienst and Petersen
-President’s response
-President’s knowledge
-Reliance on counsel
-Dean’s conversations with President
-Petersen
-President’s possible conversation with Richardson
-Ehrlichman’s informing the President regarding Petersen’s knowledge of
photograph of Liddy
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-29 (cont’d)
-President’s investigation
-Meeting with Dean, March 21, 1973
-Camp David
-“Cancer on the Presidency” conversation
-Seymour M. Hersh’s article in New York Times, May 2, 1973
-Ehrlichman’s and Haldeman’s role in cover-up
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Liddy
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s response
-Need for attorney
-Dean
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Immunity
-Ervin Committee
-Compared with prosecutors
-Procedures
-Impact on prosecution
-Grand jury
-Press coverage
-Public perception
-Contrasted with Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Corroboration
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-LaCosta
-Attorney
-Recollection
-LaCosta
-Conversations with President
-Executive privilege
-Ervin Committee
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-John N. Mitchell
White House staff
-Spiro T. Agnew’s meeting with Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-61-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-29 (cont’d)
-Agnew’s role in domestic policy
-President’s remarks, May 1
-Cole’s telephone call to Ehrlichman
-Agnew’s role
-Leaks
-Ambition
John B. Connally
-Party affiliation
-Announcement
President’s schedule
-Otto E. Passman
-Haldeman
Watergate
-Ehrlichman’s lawyer’s view
-Robert L. Vesco
-Ellsberg break-in
-Obstruction of justice
-Ellsberg break-in
-Dean’s knowledge
-Timing
-President’s knowledge
-Photograph in Hunt’s camera
-CIA
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-Possible reporting
-Motives
-Neil Sheehan
-Harvard University
-Krogh’s responsibility
-Ehrlichman
-Press coverage
-Role
-Covert operation contrasted with burglary
-62-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-29 (cont’d)
White House staff
-Ehrlichman’s assistance
-Agnew
-Domestic Council
-Cole
-President’s response
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with Cole
-Briefing of President
-Trip to Florida
Watergate
-President’s possible conversation with Richardson
-Timing
-Trip to Florida
-President’s previous conversation with Richardson
-National security investigations
-Plumbers
-Hunt and Liddy
-Possible update
-Krogh
-President’s conversations with Ehrlichman and Dean
-Justice Department
-Dean’s blackmail
-Justice Department
-Immunity
-President’s actions
-Ehrlichman’s contact with Justice Department
-President’s possible conversation with Richardson
-Tone
-Perception
-Krogh’s conversation with Richardson
-Kleindienst
-President’s knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Dean
-Krogh
-Possible clemency
-Erhlichman’s request
-63-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-29 (cont’d)
-Mitchell
-Krogh
-Obstruction of justice
-Motives
-Possible clemency
-Authority
-Ehrlichman’s viewpoint
-Petersen’s conversation with President
-Dean
-Petersen’s possible statement regarding knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Petersen’s telephone conversation with President
-Ellsberg break-in
-Reporting to Justice Department
-Petersen
-Tenure in office
-Richardson
-Kleindienst
-Motives
-Dean
-Ervin Committee
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Dean
-Testimony
-Timing
-Possible conviction
-Immunity
-Contempt
-Ehrlichman’s testimony
-Timing
-Hearing schedule
Ehrlichman left at an unknown time before 4:56 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-30 (cont’d)
Date: May 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:13 pm and 4:56 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
Watergate
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Krogh’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-John W. Dean, III’s conversation with President
-Richard G. Kleindienst’s conversation with President
-Krogh’s possible affidavit regarding Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Content
-David R. Young, Jr.’s possible actions
-Forthcoming New York Times story
-Krogh’s role
-Timing of Krogh’s affidavit
-Krogh’s conversation with Richardson
-Dean
-Timing
-58-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-29 (cont’d)
-President’s conversation with Henry E. Petersen
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s testimony
-Ellsberg break-in
-Krogh’s possible affidavit
-Petersen
-Dean’s conversation with Krogh, November 1972
-Petersen, L[ouis] Patrick Gray, and Earl J. Silbert
-Petersen’s role
-Prosecutions
-Ellsberg break-in
-Krogh’s conversation with Richardson
-President’s conversation with Kleindienst
-President’s conversations with Dean
-President’s possible conversation with Richardson
-Ehrlichman’s notes
-National Security Council [NSC] leak to Jack N. Anderson
-Bangladesh and Pakistan issue
-Rose Mary Woods’s safe
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-President’s possible conversation with Richardson
-President’s conversations with Dean
-Photograph of G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Justice Department
-Petersen
-Richardson’s handling of case
-Petersen and Silbert
-Need for disclosure
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Photograph of Liddy
-Possible reporting
-National security
-Dean’s conversations with Ehrlichman
-Petersen
-Timing
-Dean’s conversation with Krogh
-Ehrlichman’s response
-59-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-29 (cont’d)
-Ellsberg case
-Petersen
-Ehrlichman’s assessment
-US Supreme Court
-President’s knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Dean’s conversations with President
-Photograph of Liddy
-Dean
-Petersen
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] and FBI
-CIA and FBI
-Gray and Silbert
-Dean’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Petersen
-Krogh
-Conversation with Richardson regarding Ellsberg break-in
-Forthcoming resignation
-New York Times story
-Young’s employment
-President’s knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Petersen
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Timing
-Plumbers
-Hunt
-Dean’s conversation with prosecutors
-President’s subsequent meeting with Kleindienst and Petersen
-President’s response
-President’s knowledge
-Reliance on counsel
-Dean’s conversations with President
-Petersen
-President’s possible conversation with Richardson
-Ehrlichman’s informing the President regarding Petersen’s knowledge of
photograph of Liddy
-Timing
-60-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-29 (cont’d)
-President’s investigation
-Meeting with Dean, March 21, 1973
-Camp David
-“Cancer on the Presidency” conversation
-Seymour M. Hersh’s article in New York Times, May 2, 1973
-Ehrlichman’s and Haldeman’s role in cover-up
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Liddy
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s response
-Need for attorney
-Dean
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Immunity
-Ervin Committee
-Compared with prosecutors
-Procedures
-Impact on prosecution
-Grand jury
-Press coverage
-Public perception
-Contrasted with Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Corroboration
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-LaCosta
-Attorney
-Recollection
-LaCosta
-Conversations with President
-Executive privilege
-Ervin Committee
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-John N. Mitchell
White House staff
-Spiro T. Agnew’s meeting with Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-61-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-29 (cont’d)
-Agnew’s role in domestic policy
-President’s remarks, May 1
-Cole’s telephone call to Ehrlichman
-Agnew’s role
-Leaks
-Ambition
John B. Connally
-Party affiliation
-Announcement
President’s schedule
-Otto E. Passman
-Haldeman
Watergate
-Ehrlichman’s lawyer’s view
-Robert L. Vesco
-Ellsberg break-in
-Obstruction of justice
-Ellsberg break-in
-Dean’s knowledge
-Timing
-President’s knowledge
-Photograph in Hunt’s camera
-CIA
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-Possible reporting
-Motives
-Neil Sheehan
-Harvard University
-Krogh’s responsibility
-Ehrlichman
-Press coverage
-Role
-Covert operation contrasted with burglary
-62-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-29 (cont’d)
White House staff
-Ehrlichman’s assistance
-Agnew
-Domestic Council
-Cole
-President’s response
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with Cole
-Briefing of President
-Trip to Florida
Watergate
-President’s possible conversation with Richardson
-Timing
-Trip to Florida
-President’s previous conversation with Richardson
-National security investigations
-Plumbers
-Hunt and Liddy
-Possible update
-Krogh
-President’s conversations with Ehrlichman and Dean
-Justice Department
-Dean’s blackmail
-Justice Department
-Immunity
-President’s actions
-Ehrlichman’s contact with Justice Department
-President’s possible conversation with Richardson
-Tone
-Perception
-Krogh’s conversation with Richardson
-Kleindienst
-President’s knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Dean
-Krogh
-Possible clemency
-Erhlichman’s request
-63-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-29 (cont’d)
-Mitchell
-Krogh
-Obstruction of justice
-Motives
-Possible clemency
-Authority
-Ehrlichman’s viewpoint
-Petersen’s conversation with President
-Dean
-Petersen’s possible statement regarding knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Petersen’s telephone conversation with President
-Ellsberg break-in
-Reporting to Justice Department
-Petersen
-Tenure in office
-Richardson
-Kleindienst
-Motives
-Dean
-Ervin Committee
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Dean
-Testimony
-Timing
-Possible conviction
-Immunity
-Contempt
-Ehrlichman’s testimony
-Timing
-Hearing schedule
Ehrlichman left at an unknown time before 4:56 pm.
-64-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-30 (cont’d)