Date: June 4, 1973

Time: 9:39 pm – 9:48 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Incoming telephone call

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President.

[See also Conversation No. 442-67]

Haig’s previous meeting with Melvin R. Laird

Watergate

-White House tapes

-President’s review

-John W. Dean, III

-Statement

-White House tapes

-President’s review

Haig’s previous meeting with Laird

-Attendees

-Bryce N. Harlow, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., and William J. Baroody, Jr.

-Buzhardt’s and Baroody’s earlier meeting with Laird

-John B. Connally’s visit to Haig’s office

-Timing of announcement of return to White House staff

-Laird’s forthcoming activities

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-Spiro T. Agnew

-Laird’s wife’s reaction

-Administration’s forthcoming activities

-Vietnam, energy, economy

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] directorship

-Haig’s interviews

White House staff

-Roles of Laird, Harlow, and Haig

-Harlow

-President’s forthcoming meeting with boss, Howard [Last name

unknown] [at Proctor and Gamble]

Haig’s previous meeting with Connally

-Laird’s role on White House staff

-Connally’s departure

-Future role with White House staff

-Energy

-Future role with administration

-President’s regard

-Attitude

Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Connally

-Laird

-Connally

-Future role with administration

-Timing

Laird’s call to Henry A. Kissinger, June 3

-Kissinger

-Future on White House staff

Kissinger

-Possible non-White House activities

-President’s assessment

Connally

-President’s schedule

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-Forthcoming conversation with Haig

-Connally’s foreign travel

-President’s opinion contrasted with Kissinger’s opinion

-Possible effect

-Treatment by Haig

-Concern regarding Laird

-Conversation with Haig

-Laird

President’s schedule

Watergate

-White House tapes

-President’s review of conversations with Dean

-Content

-Key Biscayne

-Camp David

-Buzhardt

-Reaction to examination of Dean’s files

-Archibald Cox

-Relationship with Sam J. Ervin, Jr.

-Possible resignation

-Effect

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Henry E. Petersen