900–4

Conversation No. 900-4

Date: April 18, 1973
Time: 8:11 am - 8:38 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

John D. Ehrlichman’s schedule

Watergate

-White House tapes

-Instructions for Haldeman

-Disposition

-Value

-John W. Dean, III

-Report

-Telephone call to Ronald L. Ziegler, April 17, 1973

-Threats

-Possible meeting with President

-President’s April 17, 1973, conversation with Haldeman

-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s threat

-National Security considerations

-Charles W. Colson

-Timing

-Role

-Dean

-Immunity

-Haldeman’s possible testimony

-Conversations with President

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Tape Subject Log

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Conversation No. 900-4 (cont’d)

-Blackmail
-$1,000,000
-Contents
-Dean report
-Individuals in cover-up
-Instructions
-John N. Mitchell
-Conversation with Ziegler

-Cover-up

-Motives of White House staff

-Dean
-1972 election
-Conversation with Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell
-Hunt
-Possible testimony

-Strachan’s testimony

-Effect on President

-President’s April 17, 1973 statement

-Republicans’ reaction
-Ziegler’s April 17, 1973, press briefing
-Leaks to press
-Resignations of Haldeman and Dean

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:11 am.

Ziegler

-Meeting with the President


The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:17 am.

Watergate

-Press coverage of Haldeman

-Dean

-Conversation with President, March 21, 1973
-Ehrlichman
-Hunt
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Conversation No. 900-4 (cont’d)

Ziegler entered at 8:17 am.

Watergate
-Dean
-Conversation with Ziegler
-Dean report
-President’s efforts at fairness
-Ziegler’s press briefing
-President’s fairness
-Dean’s possible meeting with reporters
-Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward and Carl Bernstein
-Report
-Watergate aftermath
-Meeting with President, March 21, 1973
-President’s investigation
-Ehrlichman
-Conversation with President
-President’s conversations with Ehrlichman
-James W. McCord, Jr.’s March 23, 1973 statement
-Meeting with President, March 21, 1973
-Mitchell
-Paul L. O’Brien
-Possible public statement
-Ziegler’s telephone call to Dean
-President’s views
-Press stories
-President’s conversation with Henry E. Petersen
-Watergate break-in
-Break-in compared to cover-up
-Public focus
-Indictments
-Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-August 29, 1972 statement on White House involvement
-Dean
-Washington Post story

Ziegler left at 8:26 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

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Conversation No. 900-4 (cont’d)


Watergate
-Dean
-Ziegler’s telephone call
-Criminal activities concerning Watergate
-Conversations with President
-Hunt’s demand
-President’s reaction
-Funds for defendants
-President’s knowledge
-President’s possible approval
-Obstruction of justice
-President’s knowledge of $350,000
-Dean’s role
-$1,500,000
-Haldeman’s knowledge
-Dean’s statement
-Use
-Hunt
-National Security
-Threats concerning Ehrlichman
-President’s reaction
-Dean
-Immunity
-Clemency
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Prosecution
-Mitchell
-Special Prosecutor

Ziegler entered at 8:33 am.

Watergate

-Dean

-Ziegler’s telephone conversation
-Ziegler’s news briefing
-Dean report
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. July-2012)

Conversation No. 900-4 (cont’d)

-President
-Possible meeting with Ziegler and the President
-Immunity
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Colson
-Threats

Haldeman and Ziegler left at 8:38 am.