Date: April 17, 1973 to April 18, 1973

Time: 11:45 pm – 12:04 am

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Entertainment for state dinner

-Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra

-F. Edward Hebert

-John O. Pastore

President’s schedule

President’s statement

State visit with Giulio Andreotti

Watergate

-White House staff members

-Possible resignations

-President’s feelings

-Leonard Garment’s suggestions

-Termination H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, John W.

Dean, III

-John N. Mitchell’s culpability

-Haldeman

-Possible resignation

-Dean’s motivation

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-Presidency

-President’s knowledge

-Meeting with Dean on March 21, 1973

-Possible resignation by President

-Spiro T. Agnew

-Effect

-President’s mood at State Dinner

-Mrs. Raymond R. Guest’s comment

-Effect on President

-Haldeman

-Ehrlichman

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean

-Garment’s view

-Evidence

-Possible resignations

President’s schedule

-Andreotti

-Meeting with President

-Bipartisan congressional leaders meeting

-Emigration of Soviet Jews

-Message from Soviet Union

-Possible effects

-Summit

-Arms control

-Responsibility

-Jewish leaders

-Timing

-Strategy with Soviet Union

-Compared with John T. Downey’s release

-Soviet emigration policy

-Summit meeting

Most favored nation [MFN] status

-Congressmen

Watergate

President’s role in history

-Charges against administration

-Haldeman

-Dean

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-Immunity

-Credibility

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Effects on President

-President’s knowledge

-Foreign policy activities

-1972 Campaign

Vietnam War

-John C. Stennis

-Bombing

-Laos and Cambodia

-North Vietnam

-Kissinger’s meeting

Haldeman and Ehrlichman

State Dinner

-Sinatra

Watergate

-Garment

-Evidence against White House staff

-President’s opponents’ reaction

-New York Times and Washington Post

-Compared with Teapot Dome

-Need for full disclosure