INTRODUCTORY NOTE

This volume contains certain documents which were received by the Committee on the Judiciary subsequent to the initial

presentation of evidentiary material by the Impeachment Inquiry staff in May and June, 1974.

The documents are:

(1) White House edited transcripts of Presidential

conversations of April 4, 1972, March 22, 1973, and June 23, 1972. These transcripts were submitted to the Committee after

the initial submission and public release of White House transcripts on April 30, 1974. The June 23, 1972 transcripts were released publicly by President Nixon on August 5, 1974.

(2) John Ehrlichman's handwritten notes of certain

meetings with the President.

Ehrlichman's notes were produced by the White House

in United States District Court on June 5 and 6, 1974, pursuant to a subpoena issued to President Nixon at the request of John Ehrlichman, a defendant in United States v. Ehrlichman. The notes were furnished to the Special Prosecutor contemporaneously.

On June 24, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee issued

a subpoena to the President for "all handwritten notes of John Ehrlichman produced by the White House on June 5 and June 6, 1974 pursuant to an order of Judge Gerhard Gesell in United States v. Ehrlichman" and for "handwritten notes of John Ehrlichman of a meeting on July 12, 1971 among the President, John Ehrlichman and Robert Mardian." A set of notes was delivered to the Committee on July 14, 1974, together with a letter from James D. St. Clair, Special Counsel to the President, stating that the materials furnished were "those parts of John Ehrlichman's notes...that were furnished to Mr. Ehrlichman pursuant to his subpoena."

from the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. Mr. St. Clair had requested that the Special Prosecutor furnish this set of notes to him, but through a misunderstanding, the notes were delivered to the

Committee.

A comparison of the two sets of notes revealed that those received from the Special Prosecutor included 42 pages, covering 11 meetings, which were not among the notes received from the White House.

Certain

The notes reproduced in this volume are those which were received from the Special Prosecutor. Each of the pages which was not received from the White House is identified by a footnote. pages are masked in part of entirely. The deletions were made by the White House prior to submission of the notes on the grounds that the deleted material was not relevant to the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg

or Fielding break-in matters.

(3) Affidavit of Bruce A. Kehrli.

On June 19, 1972, certain officials of the Nixon administration, including Bruce Kehrli, the Staff Secretary, met to discuss Howard Hunt's White House employment status. That meeting is recorded in Book II, paragraph 14, of the Committee's Statements of Information. One of the White House documents included as supporting evidence for paragraph 14 is a copy of a March 31, 1972 memorandum concerning Hunt, which was written to Kehrli by Richard Howard, Charles Colson's There are two handwritten notations by Kehrli on

assistant.

the memorandum.

In his affidavit, Kehrli explains what each

notation refers to and when it was made. A copy of the memorandum

is attached to the affidavit as an exhibit.

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bother you to death with ITT and all that

No. It was simply wonderful.

Good (unintelligible).

We always enjoy it, Mr. President. Oh, Bebe turned that

thing up according to your formula and

(Laughter).

I tell you, it was just great.

I told these people around here, I said (unintelligible) call
Mitchell, I said don't you Bob, and.

Of course, I suppose they had to (unintelligible) one or two.

Well some of them did.

We didn't bother you too much?

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No, not you fellows.

We fished, and we went out in the boat with Bebe a couple of

times and had dinner with him two or three times.

NOTE: This transcript was provided to the Committee on June 5, 1974, by James D. St. Clair, Special Counsel to the President, in response to the Committee's request for a tape recording of the conversation among the President, John Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman on April 4, 1972, from 4:13-4:50 p.m.

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Want some consomme?

I'd love some. So it was just absolutely great. We had
some of the people down from the Committee where we
could spend a couple of days, you know, with quiet and so

Yeah (unintelligible) sort of busy these days. Try and get
the weather, damn it, if any of you know any prayers, say
them (unintelligible) weather. Let's get that weather cleared

up. The bastards have never been bombed like they're going

to be bombed this time, but you've got to have weather.

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Huh! It isn't bad. The Air Force isn't worth a I mean,

they won't fly. Oh, they fly, but they won't you see our

Air Force is not.

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bombing runs all the time and they couldn't see a thing.

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But they were doing a different type of bombing then.

Strategic bombing and all that nevertheless it's a

miserable business.

Are the Navy pilots as bad?

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Oh they're better, but they're all under this one command,
It's all screwed up. We just aren't going to talk about it.

The weather will clear up. It's bound to. When they do,
they'll hit something -- and, they're a lot of brave guys --

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you've got to say. After all that POW (unintelligible) that

poor who got shot down. They're over there starving on that Well the ah,

damned rice. It's all right, we'll give 'em hell.

what are your reflections on the present thing. Why don't we start with what I told the staff to get the hell off of the ITT

and then get on to politics which is more interesting, not

think what we have to face is that it will be investigated by
(unintelligible) election as you get closer to the election of

course it's extremely, I think that -- I think you might adopt