Date: May 12, 1973
Time: 12:37pm – 12:54 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-President’s previous conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Henry A. Kissinger’s press briefing
-Wiretaps
-Compared with previous administrations
-Attempts to reach L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-President’s conversation with Gray
-Ziegler
-Leak
-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Possible release
-Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Jr.’s appearance before Armed Services Committee
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger’s memcons
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Possible effects of White House refusal to release
-Copies
-Richard M. Helms
-Schlesinger’s possible testimony
-June 28, 1972 memcon
-Possible effect
-White House retention
-National security
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Schlesinger
-June 28, 1972 memcon
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s conversation with Helms
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-Walters’s call to Gray
-Possible effect of release
-Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Hearsay evidence
-Walters
-Helms
-Possible possession of copy
-Forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt
-Haig’s conversation with Walters
-Copies
-Helms
-Forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt
-Conversation with Haldeman and Walters, June 28, 1972
-White House concern
-CIA involvement
-Conversation with Gray, June 27, 1972
-June 28, 1972 memcon
-Effects of possible release
-Helms
-Memcon
-President’s motivation
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Walters’s possible testimony
-Gray’s possible testimony
-Gray’s previous testimony
-Conversation with Walters
-John W. Dean, III
-Possible release
-White House response
-Buzhardt’s schedule
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Memcons
-Effects of possible release
-Helms’s conversation with Gray
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-President’s subsequent conversation with Gray
-Gray’s conversation with Walters
-Grand Jury
-Ziegler’s forthcoming statement
-Haig’s call to the President