Date: May 14, 1973

Time: 5:20 pm – 5:42 pm

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Lawrence M. Higby.

Watergate

-Ervin Committee

-Allegations against President

-San Clemente property

-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

-President’s financial situation

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Conversation with Higby

-Grand jury testimony

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Watergate

-Higby’s possible grand jury testimony

-Executive privilege

-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]

-Haldeman’s grand jury testimony

-Higby’s knowledge

-Possible consultation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

-John W. Dean, III

-President, Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman

-Newsweek story

-Documents

-Possible contents

-E. Howard Hunt’s activities

-Ehrlichman

-Charles W. Colson’s relationship with Dean

-Allegations regarding President’s San Clemente property

-Legal relationship to President

Dean

-Knowledge of trust

-Nixon Foundation

-Financial arrangements

-Purchase of President’s San Clemente property

President’s San Clemente property

-Financial arrangements

-Public story

-Blind trust

-Robert H. Abplanalp and Rebozo

-Cost

-Adjacent property

-President’s membership

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-Motives

-Nixon Foundation compared to blind trust

-Abplanalp and Rebozo

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Nixon Foundation

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President’s San Clemente property

-Allegations

-Dean as possible source

-[Santa Ana Register]

-Laguna, San Clemente

Watergate

-Allegations regarding campaign funds

-Senate committee

-Ziegler

-Press coverage

-Ziegler’s conversations

-Frank DeMarco, Jr.

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-Herbert W. Kalmbach

-Higby’s meetings with Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-President’s letter to J. Edgar Hoover regarding Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

-Krogh’s role

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files

-William D. Ruckelshaus

-Indictments

-John N. Mitchell

-Jeb Stuart Magruder

-Allegations regarding President’s San Clemente property

-Source

-Ervin Committee

-Laguna Beach, California

-Dean

-Dean

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and President

-Conversation with Higby

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-President

-Timing

-Haldeman

-Statements

-Report

-Phone conversation with Higby

-Conversations

-Lawyers

-United States attorney

-White House response

-Strategy and visibility

-Norfolk, Virginia

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-President’s schedule

-Haile Selassie

-Iceland

-Buzhardt’s role

-Ziegler

-Haldeman

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-Opponents

-Ehrlichman

-Conversation with Higby

-Dean’s documents

-Possible contents

Higby left at 5:42 pm.