Date: June 12, 1973

Time: 9:37 pm – 9:56 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

[See also Conversation No. 444-26]

Watergate

-Maurice H. Stans

-Ervin Committee

-Testimony, June 12

-Work at the Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]

-Grand Jury testimony

-Fifth Amendment

-Immunity

-Archibald Cox

-John W. Dean, III

-Immunity

-Cox

-Reason

-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony

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-Motive

-Use immunity

-Grand Jury and prosecutors’ activity

-Reasons

-Interview with Fred F. Fielding

-Jeb Stuart Magruder

-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony

-Stans

-Compared to previous testimony

-Possible motive

-John N. Mitchell, Dean, Gordon C. Strachan

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-John D. Ehrlichman

-President

-Stans, Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.

-Perjury

-Possible sentence

-Taped conversations with Lawrence M. Higby, Haldeman

-Content

-Lewisburg prison

-Haldeman

-Stans

-Sloan

-Mitchell, Dean, Strachan

-Dean

-Compared to Magruder

-Possible Grand Jury testimony

-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony

-Logs of meetings

-Usefulness

-Briefing books

-Memoranda by others

-Subsequent testimony of Richard A. Moore, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman

-Briefing books

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-Press conferences

-March 2

-March 15

-Executive privilege statement

-Gerald L. Warren’s and Ronald L. Ziegler’s questions

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-CRP

-Donald H. Segretti

-Fielding

-Dean’s investigation of CRP

-Warren

-Dean’s investigation of White House involvement

-Bob Toth of Los Angeles Times

-Ehrlichman’s call

-Results

-Possible cross-examination

-Use of documents

-Warren

-Fred D. Thompson

-Work with Buzhardt

-Horse “Secretariat”

-Marlow W. Cook

-Edward J. Gurney

-Herman E. Talmadge

-John C. Stennis

-President’s knowledge of Watergate

-Response to Dean’s revelations

-Thompson

-Forthcoming Ervin Committee interview, June 15

-Possible leaks

-News media

-White House response

-Dean

-Contradictions

-News magazines, Sunday papers