The President tells Ehrlichman, Dean, Haldeman, and Mitchell, “I want you all to stonewall, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover up or anything else, if it’ll save it, save the plan. That’s the whole point.” They agree to pursue the executive privilege line in hopes that it could delay everything potentially through the entire second term. They also tell Dean to start working on a report that exonerates them all since Nixon had already told the country Dean was investigating. (This is the only known meeting of all five Watergate participants at the same time.)