Date: May 12, 1973

Time: 5:17 pm – 5:47 pm

Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Watergate

-Wiretaps

-Henry A. Kissinger

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-White House attempts to contact

-Ronald L. Ziegler’s previous press briefing

-President’s role in investigation

-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

-Possible Grand Jury testimony

-Possible leak

-White House response

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

-Plans

-Southeast Asia

-Wages and prices

-Energy

-John B. Connally

-Popular mood

-Possible indictments

-Jeb Stuart Magruder and John N. Mitchell

-Special Prosecutor

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Warren E. Hearnes

-Arthur Goldberg

-Walters

-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]

-Conversation with Buzhardt

-Memcons

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-Possible copies

-Access

-Richard M. Helms

-Possible testimony of William E. Colby and Dr. James R. Schlesinger

-Files

-Possible testimony

-Memcons

-Storage location

-National security matters

-John W. Dean III

-Memcons

-Conversation with Buzhardt

-Memcons

-Henry E. Petersen

-National security

-Contacts with Dean

-Memcons

-Meetings with Gray

-Dean

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Helms

-Meeting in White House

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] involvement

-Instructions to Walters

-CIA involvement

-Walters’s verification

-Gray’s Grand Jury Senate testimony

-Memcons

-President’s call to Gray

-Gray’s contacts with Walters

-President’s instructions

-Gray’s contacts with Walters

-Ehrlichman and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-President’s motives

-July 12, 1972 memcon

-Wording

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-Contacts with Dean

-Meetings with Gray

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Watergate

-Walters

-Memcons

-National security

-White House reaction to possible release

-President’s motives

-Conversation with Haldeman

-President’s subsequent call to Gray

-President’s motives

-President’s call to Gray regarding investigation

-Meeting with Gray

-Possible charge of cover-up

-Helms

-Conversation with the President regarding CIA involvement

-Possible memcons

-Possible statement

-Walters’s role in investigation

-Conversation with the President regarding CIA involvement

-Gray

-Conversation with the President

-President’s instructions regarding investigation

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-Gray’s statement

-Walters

-Memcons

-Gray

-Statement

-Press coverage

-Grand Jury testimony

Ziegler

Watergate

-President’s belief regarding CIA involvement

-Dean

President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler at an unknown time before 5:47 pm.

Watergate

-Ziegler’s previous press briefing

-Gray

-Conversation with the President

-Electoral Reform Commission

-Public interest

-Gray

-Conversation with the President

-Investigation

-Dean

-Conversation with the President

-Ziegler’s morale

-Case

-Dean

-President’s efforts

-Dean

-Motives

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