430-23

Conversation No. 430-23

Date: April 25, 1973
Time: 5:37 pm - 6:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry E. Petersen.

Watergate

-President’s meeting with Richard G. Kleindienst, April 25, 1973

-Daniel Ellsberg break-in

-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.

-Jack Anderson
-Conversation with US Attorney concerning leaks
-Source of information
-Prominent Republican
-Court reporters
-Seymour Glanzer
-Grand jury

-President’s cooperation

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Conversation No. 430-23 (cont’d)

-Peter H. Wolf
-Hunt
-Boxes of Hunt material
-[First name unknown] Sheperd [?]
-Frederick C. LaRue
-William Hundley
-John N. Mitchell
-Frederic M. Vinson, Jr.
-Former Chief Justice Frederic M. Vinson

-Possible plea

-Subornation of perjury

-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Watergate activities
-Mitchell, Paul O’Brien, John W. Dean, III and Robert C. Mardian
-Effects of civil suit
-Ervin Committee
-Samuel Dash’s request to immunize Hunt
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. and Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Magruder
-Need for corroborative information
-Dean
-Negotiations with US Attorneys

-Immunity

-Telephone calls from Petersen

-Conversation with the President, March 21, 1973

-William O. Bittman and O’Brien

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Possible testimony concerning Robert L. Vesco

-Mike Seymour

-Dean’s attempt to quash subpoena

-Mitchell
-Vesco
-Edward C. Nixon

-Meeting with Harry L. Sears

-Maurice H. Stans

-Petersen’s forthcoming conversation with Seymour Glanzer
-George Smathers
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Conversation No. 430-23 (cont’d)

-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo’s conversation with the President
-Murray M. Chotiner
-Federal Communications Commission
-Freud

-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield

-Dean’s request concerning James W. McCord, Jr.



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Watergate

-Dean’s request

-McCord’s defense

-Dean

-Lawyer’s negotiations with Dash

-Time to assemble Ervin Committee

-Effect of hearings on investigation

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-Documents destroyed

-Fraudulent State Department cables

-John F. Kennedy and Ngo Dinh Diem
-Dean’s story
-Gray’s reasons
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Dean
-Conversation with Petersen
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Conversation No. 430-23 (cont’d)

-Florida letters concerning Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson and Hubert H.Humphrey
-Witness, [First name unknown] Daniels
-Donald H. Segretti’s guilt
-Segretti
-“Canuck Letter”
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Petersen’s contacts
-Segretti, Hunt, and McCord
-Liddy
-Tom Kennelly
-Peter L. Maroulis
-Suggested letter concerning Corrupt Practices Act
-Richard G. Kleindienst’s signature

-President’s possible action

-Mitchell

-Responsibility
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Indictment
-Vesco case
-Petersen’s conversation with Martha Mitchell
-Presidency
-President’s conversation with John J. Wilson and Frank H. Strickler
-Content
-Presidential responsibility
-Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sherman Adams

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, and Mitchell

-President and Watergate

-President’s knowledge

-Cover-up
-Herbert W. Kalmbach and $320,000
-President’s other 1972 concerns (such as the Vietnam
War)
-Statement by Charles W. Colson’s aide
-Kleindienst and Petersen
-President’s activity in post-Watergate break-in period
-Orders for full disclosure in Summer 1972

-Ehrlichman’s recollections

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Conversation No. 430-23 (cont’d)

-Kakeui Tanaka meeting

-Clark MacGregor

-Dean’s concerns

-Mitchell and William H. Sullivan [?]

-Questions for Dean

-Conversation with Dean, March 21, 1973

-Dean report
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s public statements
-Cover-up
-Knowledge of funds for defendants
-Kalmbach and Cuban defendants

-Investigation

-Conversation with Dean, March 21, 1973

-Content

-Hunt’s national security activities

-Blackmail

-Bittman, O’Brien

-Ellsberg

-Dean’s conversation with Ehrlichman, March 21, 1973
-Haldeman’s role
-Bittman
-Dean
-Immunity issue
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and President
-Conversation with the President, March 21, 1973
-Further conversations with President
-Blackmail
-President, Kleindienst, and Petersen

-Possible conversation with Petersen

-Dash

-Immunity

-Prosecutors’ view

-Subornation of perjury

-Ervin Committee

-Possible testimony

-Ehrlichman

-Immunity

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Conversation No. 430-23 (cont’d)

-Hunt

-Possible blackmail of President, Petersen

-Petersen’s possible recording
-Gray
-Use of Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Presidency
-President’s schedule for forthcoming months
-Soviet summit, meetings with Willy Brandt, and Georges J. R.
Pompidou
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Memorandum from Petersen concerning possible charges against
-Possible testimony
-Wilson
-Prosecutors’ suspicions of Petersen
-Need for speedy indictments
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, and Frederick C. La Rue
-Nature of case
-Witnesses’ testimony
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible testimony
-Separation from Dean
-Possible departures from staff
-Memoranda from Wilson and Petersen
-Possible departures from staff
-Dean

-Effect

-Possible action by President

-Dean
-Guilt
-Lawyers and information concerning Ellsberg case
-Judge W. Matthew Byrne
-Possible testimony concerning Ellsberg break-in

-Ehrlichman

-Format

-Byrne
-Ellsberg case
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Conversation No. 430-23 (cont’d)

-Petersen’s instructions for prosecutor
-Disclosure of Dean as source
-Effect on Dean
-Conversation with Earl J. Silbert, April 14, 1973
-National security information
-Hunt and Plumbers
-Investigation
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Legal justifications
-President’s, Peterson’s resolutions

-Wilson

-Grand jury testimony

-Summary of evidence

-Colson

-Richard A. Moore

-Conversations with Dean

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Peterson’s conversation with Harold H. Titus, Jr.

-Presidency and Watergate

-Comparison with Warren G. Harding

-Motives of cover-up participants

-Dean

-Conversation with the President, March 21, 1973
-Report
-President’s involvement in Watergate

Petersen left at 6:45 pm.