Date: May 29, 1973
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:11 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
President’s schedule
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Press relations
-Ziegler’s previous press briefing
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-Length
-Henry A. Kissinger’s press briefing
-John A. Scali
-Special Prosecutor
-President’s responsibilities
-President’s possible testimony before grand jury
-Violation of due process
-Separation of powers
-Criticism of Ziegler by press
– President’s property in San Clemente
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Pets
-Helen Thomas
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-President’s financial statement
-Public record
-Toughness
-Journalists from People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Question-and-answer session
-President’s previous conversation with Stephen B. Bull
-General remarks by President
-Cabinet room
-Favorable updates to press
-Scali
-Special Prosecutor
-Richard G. Valeriani
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s possible call to Elliot L. Richardson
-Newspaper deadlines
-Response by President
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 2:04 pm.
Press relations
President’s schedule
-Meeting with PRC journalists
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-Ziegler’s attendance
Flowers [?]
Unknown person’s health
Ziegler’s mood
Ziegler left at 2:05 pm.
White House tapes system
-Haldeman’s conversation with Hobert D. (“Hobe”) Lewis [?]
-Leave of absence
-Leaks about existence of system
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Bull
-Knowledge of President
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Lewis [?]
-Transfer to United States Secret Service [USSS]
-Request by President
-Richard E. Kaiser
-Knowledge of technicians
-Possible removal of system
-National Security Agency [NSA]
-Move of safe
-Destruction
-Control by Haldeman
-Bull’s knowledge
-Access
-President’s trust in Haldeman
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Volume of material
-Haldeman’s conversation with Lewis
-Earl Mazo
-Value
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Watergate
-President’s possible appearance before grand jury
-Possible conflict between Harold H. Titus, Jr. and Archibald Cox
-Prosecution’s case
-Haldeman’s statement regarding cover-up
-President’s role
-Haldeman’s role
-President’s and Haldeman’s knowledge
-Prosecution’s case
-Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and President
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Haldeman’s role
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Robert E. Cushman’s testimony
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Richard M. Helms’s testimony
-Contacts with President
-Haldeman’s role
-Kissinger’s role
-John W. Dean, III’s role
-James W. McCord’s testimony
-Haldeman’s meeting with Ehrlichman, Helms and Lt. Gen. Vernon A.
Walters
-Mexican money
-Further meetings
-President’s conversation with L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III, July 6,
1972
-Prosecution’s case
-Earl Silbert
-Theory
-Senate investigation
-Cox
-Possible indictments
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-John N. Mitchell
-Haldeman’s lawyers’ view
-Cox
-Effect on nation
-Canon of legal ethics
-Prosecutor’s duty
-Haldeman
-Possible trials
-Haldeman’s lawyers’ opinion
-Mitchell
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Haldeman’s meetings with the President subsequent to April 30
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Haldeman’s move
-House rental
-Family move
-California
Press relations
-Los Angeles
-Resistance
-Compared with Washington, DC
-Proximity to White House
Watergate
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-Expressions of support for Haldeman
-Blacks
-Businessmen
-Women
-Bonnie Angelo
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Watergate
-Effect on President
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Watergate
-White House response
-Fight
-Alternative
President’s schedule
Visit to Iceland
Kissinger
-Press briefing, May 29
-Conversations with Haig
-Watergate
-White House response
-National security
-White House operations
-Kissinger’s role
-Kissinger’s staff
Watergate
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-President’s meeting with Dean and Haldeman, March 21
-Haldeman’s deposition in Democratic National Committee [DNC] suit
-White House staff involvement
-Haldeman’s possible testimony
-Aid to defendants’ families
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Watergate
-Haldeman’s possible testimony
-Threats
-Dorothy Hunt’s contacts with Mitchell
Charles W. Colson
-Haldeman
-President’s role in conversation
-President’s reaction
-Content
-Clemency
-Perjury
-Dean’s meeting with G. Gordon Liddy, June 19, 1972
-Clemency
-Ehrlichman
-Dean’s conversation with Ehrlichman, March 20
– President’s response
-Subsequent meeting between Dean and Mitchell
-President’s investigation
-Dean’s report
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-Dean at Camp David
-Conversations with Haldeman
-McCord’s letter
-Special prosecutor
-Conversation with Lawrence Higby
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Statements from Jeb Stuart Magruder, Mitchell and Liddy’s
lawyer
-President’s conversation with Dean and Haldeman, March 21
-Funds for defendants
-President’s response
-President’s knowledge
-Thomas Pappas’s activities
-President’s meeting with Pappas
-Mitchell
-President’s knowledge
-President’s conversation with Dean and Haldeman, March 21
-President’s methodology
-Dean
-Statement regarding Herbert W. Kalmbach’s funds for George C.
Wallace
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Wallace’s opponent, Albert P. Brewer
-Source of funds
-Possible immunity
-Prosecutors’ offer
-Tactics
-Knowledge of White House activities
-Robert L. Vesco
-Mitchell’s role
-Colson’s role
-Concern about Hunt
-Mitchell’s concern
-Dean
-Possible immunity
-President’s conversation with Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Ervin Committee testimony
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-Baker, Edward J. Gurney and Daniel K. Inouye
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Gurney’s role
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman and President
-Baker
-Performance
-Motive
-Presidential candidacy
-Technique
-Robert C. Odle, Jr.
-Fred Thompson
-Samuel Dash
-Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
-Dean’s possible testimony
-Mitchell
-Dean
-Higby’s view
-Mitchell’s conversation with Haldeman
-White House staff members’ feelings toward Ehrlichman
-Mitchell, Dean and Colson
-Mitchell
-Possible defense
-Key Biscayne meeting
-Bugging the Democratic National Committee [DNC]
-Access to bugging reports
-Magruder’s testimony
-Cover-up
-Dean
-Knowledge of Hunt and William O. Bittman
-Conversation with President and Haldeman, March 21
-Stance versus President’s and Haldeman’s
-Press
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s possible appearances
-Effect on possible trials
-Ehrlichman’s and Haldeman’s strategy
-Possible indictments
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-Trials
-Ehrlichman
-Role in Daniel Ellsberg case
-California
-Witness
-Lawyer, Gil Wald [?]
-Conversation with unnamed judge
-National security
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-White House response
-Bittman’s threat
-Dean’s conversation with President and Haldeman, March 21
-Prosecutors’ actions
-Dean
-Fears regarding Liddy’s testimony
-Magruder
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Hunt’s testimony
-White House response
-President’s culpability
-White House response
-President’s future
-Dean
-Conversations with the President
-Content
-March 21
-President’s reaction
-Possible future revelations
-$350,000
-President’s knowledge
-President’s conversation with Henry E. Petersen
-Gray
-Gray
-Conversations with the President regarding contents of Hunt’s safe
-Anthony T. Ulasewicz
-Senate testimony
-Activities for Ehrlichman
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-Chappaquiddick
-Private investigations
-Ziegler
-White House response
-Senate Select Committee and Justice Department
-President’s future
-Haldeman’s Christian Science beliefs
-White House staff members’ activities
-President’s future
The President and Haldeman left at 3:11 pm.