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."

The Committee also received a set of Ehrlichman notes

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.

The notes reproduced in this volume are those which were received from the Special Prosecutor. Each of the pages which was

Certain

The deletions were made by the

not received from the White House is identified by a footnote. pages are masked in part of entirely. White House prior to submission of the notes on the grounds that the deleted material was not relevant to the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg

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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P

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.

P

I said in the campaign I said to hell with the damn

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campaign. Did you do any golfing? No?

M

Hell, I didn't even care to.

Did you fish?

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M

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.