Date: April 17, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:50 pm and 4:41 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman.
Watergate
-Press statement
-William E. Timmons
Ehrlichman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:50 pm and 4:35
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pm.
[Conversation No. 898-23A]
[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was initially prepared for the
Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) and can be found in Record Group (RG) 460, Box
174, “Transcript of a Recording of a Meeting among the President, John Ehrlichman, Ronald
Ziegler, and H. R. Haldeman, in the Oval Office on April 17, 1973, from 3:50 to 4:35 p.m.,”
pages 1-18. The Nixon Presidential Materials Staff reviewed the transcript and made changes as
necessary. This transcript has been reviewed under the provisions of the Presidential Recordings
and Materials Preservation Act of 1974 (PRMPA). The National Archives does not guarantee its
accuracy.]
[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was also prepared Richard Nixon’s
Special White House Counsel for Watergate Matters and submitted to the Committee on the
Judiciary of the House of Representatives. This transcript can be found in Submission of
Recorded Presidential Conversations (SRPC), pages 1115-1132 (1-18). Please refer to the RG
460 transcript.]
[Begin transcribed portion]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 38-87]
[End telephone conversation]
Ehrlichman talked with an unknown woman [receptionist ?] at an unknown time between 3:50
pm and 4:35 pm.
[Conversation No. 898-23B]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 38-88]
Ehrlichman conferred with the President and Haldeman at an unknown time between 3:50 pm
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and 4:35 pm.
Timmons’s location
[End telephone conversation]
Ehrlichman talked with Timmons at an unknown time between 3:50 pm and 4:35 pm.
[Conversation No. 898C]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 38-88]
Ehrlichman conferred with the President and Haldeman at an unknown time between 3:50 pm
and 4:39 pm.
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 3:50 pm.
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 4:39 pm.
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:50 pm.
Unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.
[End transcribed portion]
[An unknown portion of this conversation was not recorded at this time while the tape was
changed. The remainder of this conversation continues on audiotape Oval 899 as Conversation
No. 899-1.]