Date: April 27, 1973
Time: 8:05am – 8:35 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Watergate
-John W. Dean III
-Meeting with Leonard Garment
-Garment’s report to Ziegler
-Dean’s attitude toward the President
-Changes by the President
-Possible action by President
-Dean’s attitudes
-President
-John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
-Watergate break-in
-President’s knowledge
-Involvement of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Reports to Haldeman
-Materials withheld from Federal Bureau of Investigation
[FBI]
-Dean’s possible testimony
-Conversations with Haldeman and Ehrlichman after June 17, 1972
-President’s knowledge
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Denial of information to FBI
-Possible action by President
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Dean, Gordon C. Strachan
-President’s responsibility
-Information given by Dean to Earl J. Silbert
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Possible threat against the President
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:05 am.
Telephone call for Manolo Sanchez
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:35 am.
Watergate
-Resignations
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman, and Dean
-Timing
-Dean
-Leaves of absence
-President’s standards for staff
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s successor
-William M. Byrne, Jr.
-Daniel Ellsberg case
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Attorney General appointment
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Departures from White House
-Timing
-Effect of resignations
-Ziegler, William E. Timmons
-Grand jury action
-Dean’s possible departure
-Haldeman
-Statement concerning White House staff involvement
-Ziegler, Timmons and Richard A. Moore
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible resignations
-Timing
-President’s forthcoming speech
-President’s responsibility for Watergate
-Possible content
-Education and format
-Popular sympathy for President
-Timing of President’s forthcoming speech
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-President’s trip to Mississippi
-Press reaction
-Special prosecutor
-Henry E. Petersen
-Advantages
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Mississippi
-President’s conduct of business
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Departures from White House staff
-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Conversation with Ziegler
-Forthcoming telephone call from Ziegler
-Role on White House staff
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Timing
-Grand jury
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
-President’s counsel
-William P. Rogers, John B. Connally
-Rose
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Timing
-Indictment of John N. Mitchell
-Staffing
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-FBI director
-Attorney General
-Communications staff
-William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Columnists’ view of President
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston, James J. Kilpatrick, Jr., Smith Hempstone, Jr.,
Crosby S. Noyes
-Action by President
-Possible Congressional rhetoric
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
Ziegler left 8:35 am.