Date: April 26, 1973
Time: 5:56 pm – 6:17 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry E. Peterson.
[See also Conversation No. 431-9G]
Watergate
-President’s previous call to Richard G. Kleindienst
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-New York Times story
-Gray
-Possible resignation
-Petersen consultation with Kleindienst
-Destruction of E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s documents
The President placed the telephone on hold at an unknown time between 5:57 pm and 6:17 pm.
Telephone conversation resumes at an unknown time between 5:57 pm and before 6:17 pm.
Watergate
-Gray
-Destruction of Hunt’s documents
-Gray’s public explanation
-Ronald L. Zeigler
-Conversation with Petersen
-Hunt documents
-Kleindienst
-John D. Ehrlichman and John W. Dean, III
-Meeting with Ehrlichman and Dean
-Leaks
-Transfer of Hunt documents and orders relating thereto
-Dean’s conversation with Petersen
-Ehrlichman’s orders to destroy documents
-Transfer of documents to Gray
-Comparison with J. Edgar Hoover
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
-Timing of possible statement
-Possible action by President
-Possible statement by Ziegler
-President’s investigation
-Conversations with Petersen concerning documents
-Dean’s story concerning Ehrlichman’s orders
-Corroboration by Dean
-President’s conversation with Dean
-Hunt documents
-Petersen’s conversation with Dean concerning documents
-Ehrlichman
-Geoffrey C. Shepard
-Conversation with Petersen
-Grand Jury
-Telephone call from Thomas M. Rees’s office
-Petersen’s conversations with President
-Gray
-Forthcoming meeting with Kleindienst and Petersen
-Possible resignation
-Replacement
-W. Mark Felt
-Petersen
-Temporary nature of appointment
-Forthcoming meeting with Petersen
-Timing of possible statement
-Possible statement by Peterson
-Dean
-Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Forthcoming meeting with Petersen
-Possible departure from staff
-Ehrlichman
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming meeting between counsel and U.S. Attorney
-Grand Jury
-Dean
-Possible testimony
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Plea
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
-Petersen’s strategy
-Trial
-Possible action by President
-“Blackmail”
-Cover-up
-Credibility
-Comparison with Magruder
-Plea