Date: May 21, 1973
Time: 4:55 pm – 5:25 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Watergate
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper [statements about Watergate investigation,
May 22, 1973]
-Content and phraseology
-Funds for defendants
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Tape Subject Log
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Conversation 439-22 (cont’d)
-President’s conversation with John W. Dean III,
March 21
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s demand
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files
-Story regarding G. Gordon Liddy, May 21
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Content and phraseology
-Funds for defendants
-Dean’s conversations at White House
-John D. Ehrlichman
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:55 pm.
Refreshment
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.
Watergate
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Content and phraseology
-President’s investigation
-President’s conversation with L[oius] Patrick Gray, III
-Gray’s conversation with Lt. Gen. Vernon A.
Walters
-FBI investigation
-National security
-President’s influence on investigation
-Clemency
-Funds for defendants
-Campaign practices
-President’s knowledge and approval of activities
-Special investigating unit
-National security
-President’s responsibility
-President’s speech, April 30
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation 439-22 (cont’d)
-President’s handling of resignations of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and
Ehrlichman
-President’s speech, April 30
-Effect
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Tactics
-President’s schedule
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Preparation
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 5:16 pm.
Haig’s previous meeting with economists
-Energy
Watergate
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Preparation
-President’s schedule
-Ervin Committee hearings
-James W. McCord’s forthcoming testimony
-Leonard Garment, Ziegler
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:16 pm.
President’s schedule
-Sequoia
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm.
Watergate
-White House response
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 campaign
-White House response
-Prospects for success
-Congress
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation 439-22 (cont’d)
-Possible effects
-Soviet Union
-United States
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Content and phraseology
-Funds for defendants
-President’s knowledge
-Haldeman
-$350,000
-President’s investigation
Haig’s schedule
Ziegler and Haig left at 5:25 pm.