Date: April 13, 1973
Time: 4:22 pm – 4:41 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
Watergate
-Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Meeting with unknown man
-Charles W. Colson
-Ervin Committee
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Ervin Committee
-Press
-Effect on Grand Jury
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:26 pm
Kissinger’schedule
-Speech
Ehrlichman left at 4:26 pm
Joseph J. Sisco
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
-Briefing for President’s meeting
-Purpose
-Middle East
-William P. Rogers
-Paris trip
-Cooperation with Kissinger
-Secretive nature of the meeting
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Press story
-Source
-Meeting with President
-Story
-Avoidance of indicating crisis
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Decision making timeline
-Haig’s opinion
Vietnam
-Military action
-Areas
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Quang Tri
-Supply line
-Negotiations
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-North Vietnam
-USSR
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Political standing
USSR
-Nuclear treaty
-Kissinger’s work with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Dobrynin’s negotiating stance
-Kissinger’s cooperation
-Summit meeting
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
-Schedule
-Brezhnev’s political standing
-Possible removal
-Nuclear treaty
-Progress
-USSR’s negotiating styl
Vietnam
-Military action in South Vietnam
-Justification
-Settlement agreement violations
-Shock
-Involvement
Kissinger left at 4:30 pm.