Date: April 20, 1973

Time: 11:32 am – 11:40 am

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry E. Petersen.

[See also Conversation No. 903-11]

Watergate

-Ronald L. Ziegler’s statement to press

-Petersen’s conversations with President concerning grand jury

-John N. Mitchell

-Grand jury testimony

-Need to accelerate Grand jury’s activities

-Statements by Jeb Stuart Magruder and John W. Dean, III

-Problems

-Mitchell’s testimony before grand jury

-Lie detector tests

-Magruder

-Gordon C. Strachan

-Dean

-Status of negotiations

-Dean

-Distinction between roles as counsel and as conspirator

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. January-2011)

-Disclosure of information

-Possible legal culpability

-Executive privilege

-Petersen’s conversation with Richard G. Kleindienst

-Magruder’s departure from Commerce Department

-Resignation

-Suspension

-Compared with Dean and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-President’s schedule

-Cooperation by White House staff