Date: May 9, 1973

Time: 6:35 pm – 8:26 pm

Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Watergate

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

-Knowledge

-Daniel Ellsberg trial

-William M. Byrne, Jr.

-Request for documents

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Notes

-Removal from office

-Destruction by burning [?]

-Buzhardt’s concerns

-Senate committee

-Questions

-Executive privilege

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-Location of notes

-Partial release of documents

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Information turned over to grand jury

-Content

-Charles W. Colson

-Copies of Ehrlichman’s notes

-Buzhardt

-Buzhardt’s opinion

-Colson, Jeb Stuart Magruder and John N. Mitchell

-Haldeman

-Notes

-Partial release

-Ramifications

-Ehrlichman

-Report on investigation

-Conversation with John W. Dean, III

-Money for defendants

-Outcome

-Buzhardt

-John J. Wilson

-Conversation with J. Bruce Whelihan

-Notes

-President’s papers

-Ownership issue

-Lyndon B. Johnson

-President’s role

-Wilson

-Buzhardt’s assessment

-H. Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose

-Haldeman’s notes

-Content

-Buzhardt’s assessment

-Partial release

-Haldeman’s possible grand jury testimony

-Use of notes

-White House strategy

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-Buzhardt’s assessment of notes

-Wilson’s strategy

-Haldeman’s ownership of notes

-White House strategy

-Pre-emptive action

-Congress

-Possibility of impeachment

-President’s conversation with John W. Dean, III, March 21, 1973

-Money for defendants

-Ehrlichman

-Report

-Haldeman’s assessment

-Response to charges

-Need to protect Presidency

-Release of documents

-Mitchell [?]

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Haig’s role

-Buzhardt

-Relationship with John C. Stennis

-Haig’s recommendation

-Congressional hearings

-Possibility of delay

-Stennis’s role

-Committee membership

-National security concern

-Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-Documents

-President’s knowledge

-March 21, 1973 conversation with Dean

-Credibility of Haldeman, Dean

-Content

-Money for defendants

-William O. Bittman’s conversation with Paul L.

O’Brien

-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.

-Threats

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-Amount of money needed

-Conduit

-Cuban connection

-Las Vegas

-Money laundering

-President’s response

-Clemency

-Hunt

-Haldeman, Herbert W. Kalmbach,

Ehrlichman’s roles

-Ehrlichman’s notes

-Mitchell, Magruder, and Dean

-Haldeman’s notes

-Possible release to court

-Assessment

-Selective release

-Pre-emptive release

-Watergate compared to national security

-Use of executive privilege

-Possession

-Haldeman

-Court response

-President’s counsel

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean

-Lawyers

-Objectivity

-Buzhardt

-Compared to Leonard Garment

-Damage assessment

-Partial release of documents

-Ehrlichman’s report

Manolo Sanchez entered at 6:55 pm.

President’s telephone call

-Time of day

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Sanchez left at 6:55 pm.

Watergate

-Haldeman’s grand jury testimony [?]

-Haldeman’s notes

-Contents

-Need for White House Counsel to examine notes

-Possible release to Ervin Committee

-Pre-emptive partial release by White House

-Ehrlichman’s opinion [?]

-Garment

-President’s knowledge

-Haldeman’s notes

-Possible subpoena

-Buzhardt’s possible screening

-Haig’s support

-Haig’s possible screening

-Buzhardt’s objection

-Garment’s possible screening

-Rose’s recommendation

-Request for Haldeman’s documents

-Screening of Haldeman’s notes

-Haldeman’s house

-Buzhardt’s conversation with Wilson

-Location of Haldeman’s notes

-Use of executive privilege

-Haldeman’s appearance before grand jury

Haig talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 434-9A]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 45-177]

[End telephone conversation]

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Watergate

-Haldeman’s notes

-Retrieval

-Executive privilege

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with H. R. Haldeman at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and

7:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 434-9B]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 45-178]

[End telephone conversation]

Watergate

-Haig’s previous conversation with Haldeman

-Haldeman’s notes

-Haldeman’s possession

-Extracts

-Return

-Attorneys’ knowledge

-Conversation with Buzhardt, Garment, and Rose

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:55

pm and 7:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 434-9C]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 45-179A]

Haig conferred with the President at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:55 pm.

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[Begin conferral]

Problem

[End conferral]

[End telephone conversation]

Watergate

-Buzhardt

-President’s choice as counsel

-Haig’s conversation with Haldeman

-Garment

Haig’s previous conversation with Haldeman

Haig talked with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 434-9D]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 45-179B]

[End telephone conversation]

Watergate

-Haldeman’s notes

-Wilson

-Meeting with Buzhardt, Rose, and Garment

-Reading of notes

-Executive privilege

-Haldeman’s comments

-Garment

-Possible contents

-President’s conversations with Haldeman

-Buzhardt

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-Haig’s support

-Knowledge of issues, temperament

-Experience with Congress

-Executive privilege

-Ehrlichman’s report

-Garment and Rose

-Handling of Watergate

-Buzhardt’s knowledge

-Contents of Haldeman’s notes

-President’s conversation with Dean, March 21, 1973

-Haig’s concern

-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s involvement

-“Devil’s advocate”

-Acquisition of facts

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Possibility of Buzhardt’s review of Haldeman’s notes

-Meeting with Wilson

-Problem with Garment

-Anti-Semitism

-Haldeman

-Possible meeting between President and Haldeman

-Ehrlichman’s appearance before grand jury

-Information

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Commencement

-Dean’s appearance

-Immunity

-Dean’s documents

-Judge John J. Sirica

-Motion to release

-Timing

-Contents

-Garment’s opinion

-President’s actions after March 21, 1973

-Request for report

-Ehrlichman investigation

-President’s desire for full disclosure

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-Magruder, Mitchell, and Dean involvement

-Frederick C. LaRue’s involvement

-Money to defendants

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman’s involvement

-Haig’s opinion

-Ehrlichman

-Haldeman

-$350,000

-Haldeman’s notes

-Possible effect on Haldeman

-Contents

-March 21, 1973 conversation between President, Haldeman, and

Dean

-Intent of Haldeman’s attorneys

-Rose

-President’s possible resignation

-Haig’s forthcoming call to Haldeman

-Request for information

Haig talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 434-9E]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 45-180]

[End telephone conversation]

Watergate

-Haldeman’s notes

-Meeting with President

-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Haig talked with H. R. Haldeman at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 434-9F]

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[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 45-181]

Haig conferred with the President during the conversation.

[Begin conferral]

Watergate

-President’s conversation with Dean and Haldeman, March 21, 1973

[End conferral]

[End telephone conversation]

Watergate

-Wilson

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:55 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:55 pm.

Watergate

-Meeting between Haldeman’s lawyers, Buzhardt, Garment, and Rose, May 9,

1973

-Executive privilege

-Garment

-Content of Haldeman’s notes

-Haldeman’s lawyers’ knowledge

-Dean’s telephone conversation with Haldeman, March 26, 1973

-President’s meeting with Dean and Haldeman, March 21, 1973

-Dean’s interpretation

-Money for defendants

-Cubans

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-Las Vegas

-Clemency

-Hunt

-Amnesty

-Haldeman’s notes

-Wilson’s strategy

-March 26, 1973 conversation with Dean

-White House counsel

-Division of responsibilities

-Garment

-Buzhardt

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Attempt to delay

-Stennis

-Buzhardt

-Conversation with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.

-Buzhardt and Thomas C. Korologos

-Ervin Committee

-Special prosecutor

-Television [TV]

-Hearings

-White House response

-Haldeman’s notes

-Location

-Executive privilege

-Possible meeting between Haldeman, Wilson, and Buzhardt

-Haldeman

-Meeting with Dean and the President, March 21, 1973

-President’s conversation with Richard A. Moore

-Dean’s knowledge of Watergate

-President’s telephone call to Dean, March 20, 1973

-Moore’s conversation with Dean

-Donald H. Segretti

-Haldeman

-President’s meeting with Dean, March 21, 1973

-Bittman threats

-Response

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-Necessity for Haldeman to convey story

-Compared to paper evidence

-Buzhardt

-Possible meeting between President and Haldeman

-Buzhardt, Garment, Rose

-“Feeling the cancer”

-President’s schedule

-Cabinet meeting

-Meeting with Buzhardt

-Meetings with Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-Buzhardt

-Possible role

-Documents

-Release

-Effect on Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-Ellsberg break-in

-Ehrlichman’s involvement

-Plumbers

-Ehrlichman’s involvement

-Documents in Hunt’s safe

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-Dean’s story

-Gray’s story

-Role

-Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-Mitchell’s request

-Dean

-Telephone call to Kalmbach

-Ehrlichman’s report

-Grand jury

-Kalmbach’s role

-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman, April 1973

-Dean report

-Ehrlichman investigation

-Submitted report, April 15, 1973

-White House’s assistance in breaking case

-Magruder

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-Magruder and Mitchell

-Ehrlichman’s report

-Grand jury

-Garment’s knowledge

-President’s actions

-Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Strategy

-Haldeman

-Wilson

-Possible meetings between President, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman

-Resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Reactions

-Richardson

-Confirmation hearings

-Ehrlichman’s involvement

-Haldeman’s notes

-Buzhardt

-Misunderstanding

-Wilson’s conversation with Garment

-Location

-Ehrlichman’s appearance before grand jury

-Haldeman

-Buzhardt

-Meeting with President and Haig

Haig talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 434-9G]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 45-182]

[End telephone conversation]

Watergate

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-Buzhardt

-Frustration

Haig talked with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 434-9H]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 45-183]

[End telephone conversation]

Watergate

-Haldeman’s notes

-Buzhardt’s review

-Haig

-Interpretation

-Meeting between Buzhardt and Haldeman

-Haldeman’s conversation with Dean, March 26, 1973

-Dean’s report

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:55 pm.

Announcement of Buzhardt’s arrival

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:55 pm.

Watergate

-Wilson’s meeting with Garment, Rose, and Buzhardt

-Executive privilege

Buzhardt entered at 7:55 pm.

President’s schedule

-Republican fundraising dinner

-Haig’s attendance [?]

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 7:55 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:26 pm.

Watergate

-President’s knowledge and role

-Mitchell

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Possible guilt

-Possible indictments

-Mitchell’s indictment

-Ehrlichman’s report

-Grand jury

-Ervin Committee

-Effect on Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Dean, Mitchell, Magruder

-Magruder and Dean

-Mitchell

-Funds for defendants

-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and Kalmbach

-President’s campaign role

-Motives

-Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-Evidence

-Hush money

-Hearsay

-White House staff

-Moore

-Public relations [PR]

-President’s conversation with Henry E. Peterson

-Garment

-President’s counsel

-Haig

-Buzhardt’s forthcoming meeting with Haldeman

-Haldeman’s papers

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-Haldeman’s conversation with Dean, March 26, 1973

-Wilson

-Meeting with White House lawyers

-Executive privilege

-Relationship with Garment

-Ronald L. Ziegler’s view

-Buzhardt’s role on White House staff

-Compared to Garment

-Ervin Committee

-President’s papers

-Haldeman, Haig, and Kissinger

-Haldeman’s papers

-Grand jury schedule

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Haldeman’s papers

-Executive privilege

-Ehrlichman’s and Dean’s papers

-Haldeman’s notes

-Executive privilege

-Buzhardt

-President’s papers

-Haldeman’s papers

-Ehrlichman

-Leaks

-India-Pakistan

-Press reaction

-Buzhardt’s legal experience

-Possession

-Papers compared to oral conversations

-Ehrlichman’s conversations with President

-Grand jury testimony

-Haldeman’s conversations with President

-Ervin Committee

-Wilson’s viewpoint

-Buzhardt’s conversation with Stennis, May 3, 1973

-Buzhardt’s possible role on White House staff

-Stennis’s willingness to assist the President

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-Stennis’s position in Senate

-Stennis compared to Ervin

-Ervin Committee hearings

-President’s efforts in investigating

-Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and Stennis

-Compared to Alger Hiss case

-Grand jury activities

-Compared to Lavelle case

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Effects on possible defendants

-Ervin

-Republicans

-Howard H. Baker, Jr.

-Scope

-Segretti

-Members’ desire for publicity

-Possible pressure from peers

-Stennis and Barry M. Goldwater

-Lawrence F. O’Brien

-Korologos

-Bryce N. Harlow

-Buzhardt’s priorities for action

-Haldeman’s possible meetings with Haig, President

-Buzhardt’s role

-Richardson’s concerns regarding Buzhardt

-Haig

President’s schedule

-Republican National Committee [RNC] fundraising dinner, May 9, 1973

Watergate

-President’s conversation with John B. Connally

-Resignations

-Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-President

-Possible impeachment

-Obstruction of justice

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-Bella S. Abzug and Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.

-December 1972 bombing

-Rules

-Possible White House response

-Possible effect on nation

-Compared to 1964 campaign bugging

-J. Strom Thurmond’s campaign [?]

-Buzhardt

-Buzhardt’s classmates

Haig and Buzhardt left at 8:26 pm.

President’s schedule

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 2:25 pm.

Bull left at 2:26 pm.

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Refreshment

-Dubonet

-Lunch

-Alcohol

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Watergate

-Vernon A. Walters

-William E. Colby

-Dr. James R. Schlesinger

-Memorandum of conversation [memcon]

-President

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

-Cover-up

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

-Buzhardt

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Memcons

-Elliot L. Richardson’s possible request

-Walters’s preparation of sanitized version

-Timing of delivery to Richardson

-Haig’s concern

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-Senate committee

-Colby, Richardson, Schlesinger

-President’s role

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-President’s intentions

-Richard M. Helms’s subsequent conversation with President

-Haig’s forthcoming meeting with Walters

-Colby, Schlesinger, Richardson, and Henry E. Petersen

-President’s conversation with Gray

-Walters’s memory

-Walters’s testimony

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-Buzhardt’s fears

-President’s conversation with Gray

-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman

-Haig’s conversation with Buzhardt [?]

-Guilt

-“Conduit theory”

-President’s support

-Compared to Henry A. Kissinger

-Compared to Adm. Thomas A. Moorer

-Pentagon

-Jack N. Anderson story

-Buzhardt

-Walters

-Possible conversations

-Colby and Schlesinger

-Richardson

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Contact with Walters

-Meetings

-John W. Dean III

-National security leaks

-Ehrlichman’s possible approval

-Buzhardt’s viewpoint

-Ehrlichman’s and Haldeman’s indictments

-National security issue

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-President’s trust

-Buzhardt

-Dean

-Buzhardt

-H[orace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose

-Leonard Garment

-Buzhardt

-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

-Watergate break-in

-President’s beliefs concerning CIA

-Funds for defendants

-President’s knowledge

-President’s judgment in personnel

-Moorer

-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]

-Henry A. Kissinger

-State Department

-Bugging

-Walters

-President’s conversation with Gray regarding Watergate investigation

-Gray’s grand jury testimony

-Possible statement to Petersen

-President’s conversation with Gray

-Buzhardt

-Walters

-Haldeman’s involvement

-Walters

-Possible statement regarding Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-National security

-Forthcoming conversation with Haig

-Walters’s statement

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Dean

-Meeting with President

-Meeting with Petersen

-Haig’s support

-CIA involvement

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-Helms

-Conversation with President regarding CIA involvement in

Watergate

-Colby

-Nomination

-Walters’s testimony

-Possible conversations

-Schlesinger and Richardson

-Memcons

-White House files

-Ownership

-Contents

-Possible copies

-Richardson, Colby, Schlesinger

-Nominations

-Walters

-Conversation with Colby

Rose Mary Woods talked with the President between 2:42 pm and 2:43 pm.

[Conversation No. 434-16A]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 46-7]

The President conferred with Haig during the conversation.

[Begin conferral]

Watergate

-Woods

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files

[End conferral]

[End telephone conversation]

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Watergate

-President’s previous conversation with Woods

-FBI files

-Ehrlichman

-Woods

-Lawrence M. Higby

Haig

Watergate

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-White House response

-Judge John J. Sirica [?]

-Ehrlichman

-William M. Byrne, Jr.

-Leak

Haig left at 2:47 pm.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:51 pm.

President’s schedule

-Monday

-Haile Selassie

-State visit

-Nelson A. Rockefeller

-Water commissioner meeting

-New York city politics

-Study Commission on Third Century America

-Chairman

-Mrs. Roberto Clemente

-Presidential Citizens medal

-Bill signing

-Winston Lord

-Farewell call

-Donald D. Clancy

-Ohio

-Unknown woman’s gift presentation to President

-Rockefeller

-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

-Location

-Departure for Camp David

-Helicopter

-Bill signing

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:35 pm.

-Location

-Earl L. Butz

Butz, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Dana Mead, William W. Erwin, David Hamil, Stephen B. Bull, and

Thomas Hart entered at 3:39 pm. The White House photographer was present at the start of the

meeting.

Bill signing

-Photograph of attendees

-Greetings

-Introductions

-Praise for legislation

-Staff members from Agriculture Department

-Cole

Colorado

-Cattle business

Food prices

The unknown man, Butz, et al. left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.

-Secretary of State position

-Assistant to President

-Compared to George P. Shultz [?]

-John B. Connally

-Soviet summit

Watergate

-Vernon A. Walters

-Forthcoming meeting with Henry E. Petersen

-Conduct

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

-Documents

-Conversations

-John W. Dean, III

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray

-Possible conversation with Richard M. Helms

-Helms’s conversation with President

-CIA involvement in Watergate

-Conversation with Helms

-Handling of Watergate issues

-Helms

-Knowledge of memorandum of conversation [memcon]

-Haig’s opinion

-Memcon

-Access by William E. Colby and Dr. James R. Schlesinger

-Haig’s conversation with Walters

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman

-President

-Knowledge

-Dean

-Walters’s possible testimony

-Documents

-National security

-Dean

-Role of recollections

-Walters’s forthcoming conversations

-Colby and Schlesinger

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-Content

-Walters’s meeting with Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-Helms

-Walters’s concern

-President

-Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-Public relations [PR]

-Missing memorandum [memo] [regarding wiretaps?]

-Instructions for Haig

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Leak of memorandum

-Jack N. Anderson

-White House sources

-Compared with New York Times, Washington Post

and Chicago Tribune

-William M. Byrne, Jr.

-E. Howard Hunt’s altering cables

-Tapes and transcripts

-Accusation of fabrication

-Possible leak [of cable?]

-Accusation of fabrication

-Testimonials

-Necessity

-Petersen

-William D. Ruckelshaus

-W. Mark Felt

-Leaks

-Inference of responsibility

-Walters

-Conversations

-Colby, Schlesinger, and Elliot L. Richardson

-President’s conversation with Gray

-Petersen

-Conversation with Haig

-President’s conversation with Gray

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-Cable

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-Byrne

-Daniel Ellsberg

-Morton A. Halperin

-Anti-Vietnam stance

-Pentagon Papers

-Timing of release

-Walters

-Possible leak

-White House

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

-Felt

-Justice Department

-Byrne

-Newspapers

-William H. Sullivan

-Timing of testimony

-Missing document

-Haig’s search

-Ellsberg

-Byrne

-Material that mentions Ellsberg

-FBI’s wiretap transcripts

-Halperin books

Richardson

-Conversation with Haig

Connally

-Statement

-Conversation with Haig

-Kissinger

-Possible role with administration

-Roy L. Ash

-Energy

-Wage, price controls

-Dean [?[

-Transportation Secretary

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FBI [?]

Judge

Haig left at 4:04 pm.