Date: May 17, 1973

Time: 3:11 pm – 3:43 pm

Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

[Conversation No. 438-15A]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 46-98]

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:15 pm.

[End telephone conversation]

Thomas G. Eagleton

-Allegations in letter

-White House response

-President’s earlier meeting with Buzhardt and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-President’s knowledge

-Possible actions

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, and John W. Dean, III

-Possible White House response to unknown doctor’s letter

-Henry E. Petersen

-Psychiatry

-Ziegler’s research

-Mayo Clinic

-Extent of public knowledge

-Psychiatric hospital

Watergate

-Dean

-Access to Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] interviews

-Possible White House statement

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President’s orders

-John V. Brennan

-Thoroughness

-Bureaucracy

-United States Secret Service [USSS]

-Open files

-Threats against the First Family, President

-Ziegler’s report

-Camp David

-Computers

-Technicians

-Set-up

-Records

-Violent demonstrations

-Full reports

-Attack on the President’s car during inauguration

-Disclosure of attack

– President’s previous request

-Camp David

Ziegler’s conversation with Howard K. Smith

-President’s schedule

-Smith’s commentaries on President’s record

-Edward J. Gurney

-Treatment of Jeb S[tuart] Magruder

President’s investigation of Alger Hiss

-Compared to Ervin Committee

-Questions

-Appearance to public

President’s orders to Rose Mary Woods

-Mail to President

-Distribution to White House staff

-Haig, Ziegler

-Morale

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Eagleton’s medical history

-Charges against President

-[San Clemente]

-White House handling of allegations

-Concerns of Haig and Haldeman

-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin

Watergate

-President’s possible television [TV] speech

-Buzhardt’s view

-Dean

-Documents

-Howard K. Smith’s and Stewart J. O. Alsop’s views

-President’s possible TV speech

-Possible White Paper

-Dean

-Documents

-Possible news coverage

-Knowledge of Huston Plan

-National security

-President’s press conference

-Leonard Garment

-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

-President’s opponents

-Changing tactics

-Press

-Congress

-Samuel J. Ervin

-White House response

-Tactical reasons

-Speech

-White Paper

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-White Paper

-Threats against the First Family, President

-Numbers of demonstrators

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-Washington Post

-Anti-war

-President’s response to threats

-Compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert F. (“Bobby”)

Kennedy during World War II

-Attorney General

-FBI figures

-Press conference

-J. Edgar Hoover

-Theme

-Radical groups

-Threats to Silent Majority

-Protection of society

-Support from embassies

-Local groups

-Investigation

-National Security Council [NSC]

-Investigations at President’s order

-Staff

-State Department

-Defense Department

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

-FBI

-Compared to Pentagon Papers

-Threats to United States foreign policy

-Peace initiatives

-Soviet Union

-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

-White House response

-Ziegler at press conference

-White Paper

-Buchanan

-Press conference

-Ziegler’s opinion

-Public support

-George H. W. Bush

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-White Paper

-Speech

-President’s previous meetings

-Desire for peace

-Spiro T. Agnew

-White House response

-President’s possible actions

-Press conference compared to speech

-Dean

-Possible activities

-Ziegler’s opinion of Dean

-President’s opinion of Dean

-Credibility

-Ervin

-Gurney

-Actions

-Robert C. Odel, Jr. [?]

-Prosecutors

President’s speech on Election Reform Commission

-Press coverage

-Newspapers

-TV

-Washington Star [?]

Brennan

-Conversation with Ziegler

-[USSS report on threats against the First Family, President]

Ziegler left at 3:43 pm.

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