Secret White House Tapes

901–2

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901–2
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • UNKNOWN
April 18, 1973
Conversation No. 901-2

Date: April 18, 1973
Time: 5:20 pm - 5:33 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Watergate
-Preservation of the Presidency
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Possible resignations
-Haldeman
-Unidentified co-conspirators
-John N. Mitchell, Jeb Stuart Magruder, Frederick C. LaRue, Paul L. O’Brien
-Haldeman, Gordon C. Strachan, Ehrlichman
-Effect
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible departures
-Effect on Presidency
-Haldeman
-Role
-Effect of departure
-Assertion of President’s authority
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler, April 18, 1973

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:20 pm.

President’s schedule

-Helicopter for Camp David


The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:33 pm.

Watergate

-Continued revelations

-Magruder, John W. Dean, III

-9-


NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. January-2011)

Conversation No. 901-2 (cont’d)

-Target

-Effect on Presidency

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Replacements

-John B. Connally

-Domestic side

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Military role

-Bureaucrat

-William P. Rogers’s departure

-Timing
-Cabinet
-Tightening of administration
-[David] Kenneth Rush

-Possible appointment

-Loyalty

-Preservation of Presidency
-James T. Lynn
-Possible appointment
-Loyalty
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Compared to Rush
-Domestic orientation
-Kissinger’s conversation with Ziegler, April 18, 1973
-White House staff departures

-Strachan, Dean

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman


An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:20 pm.

Message to President

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:33 pm.

-Kissinger’s conversation with Ziegler, April 18, 1973
-Resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Behind power curve
-10-


NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. January-2011)

Conversation No. 901-2 (cont’d)

-Subordinates
-Responsibility

-President’s statement, April 17, 1973

-Unindicted persons

-Suspensions

Kissinger left at 5:33 pm.
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