Date: June 7, 1973
Time: 3:53 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
Watergate
-Richard A. Moore
-Meeting with his attorney and Buzhardt, June 7, 1973
-Moore’s forthcoming testimony
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
-Effect on John W. Dean, III
-Forthcoming interview with Ervin Committee staff, June 8, 1973
-Dean
-President’s conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Earl J. Silbert and Seymour Glanzer
-Silbert’s relationship with Colson’s attorney
-President’s conversations with Colson and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Buzhardt’s conversations with attorneys
-Colson
-Dean
-Statements
-Immunity
-Buzhardt’s conversation with Jack Miller, Moore’s attorney
-Miller’s relationship with Charles N. Shaffer
-Immunity
-Archibald Cox’s motion before Judge John Sirica
-Jeb Stuart Magruder and Dean
-Radio and Television coverage of hearings
-Immunity
-Timing of decision
-Cox, Sirica, Miller
-Transactional
-Lawyer’s statement
-Cox
-Cox’s goals
-White House response
-Testimony by Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Moore, and Henry E. Petersen
-President’s recollections of meetings
-Tapes, dictabelts
-Petersen
-Haldeman
-Deposition
-President’s April 15, 1973 phone call
-President’s knowledge
-Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist break-in
-Dean’s March 1973 conversation with President
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s possible statement
-Petersen’s memorandum
-Dean’s conversation with President
-Dean
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-March 13, 1973 conversation with President
-March 22, 1973 calls from President
-Key Biscayne
-Record
-Haldeman
-March 22, 1973 conversation with Dean
-Deposition concerning conversations with the President and Dean
-Dean
-Petersen
-March 21, 1973 conversation with the President and Haldeman
-Funds for defendants, clemency offer
-William O. Bittman
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Conversations with Petersen
-Petersen
-Conversation with President
-President’s March 21, 1973 conversation with Dean
-Bittman
-Timing
-Haldeman
-Deposition
-President’s conversation with L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Destruction of documents
-Ehrlichman
-Petersen
-Conversation with President
-Resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Conversation with President
-Resignation
-President’s subsequent conversation with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s call to Gray
-Possible Petersen call to Gray
-Destruction of documents
-Ehrlichman’s response
-Gray’s subsequent conversation with Petersen
-Destruction of documents
-Petersen
-Dean
-Dean
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(rev. March-2011)
-Possible assumptions concerning President’s knowledge
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Dean’s statement
-Dean’s memorandum to Haldeman
-Donald H. Segretti
-Cover-up, funds
-Petersen
-Conversation with President
-Gray, Ehrlichman
-Gray
-Testimony concerning destruction of documents
-Withdrawal of nomination
-Timing
-Possible discussions with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-President’s role
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s resignation
-Destruction of documents
-Petersen and Richard G. Kleindienst
-Withdrawal of nomination
-Timing
-Procedures
-William E. Timmons
-James O. Eastland
-Timmons’s contacts with Committee
-Unnamed Senators
-Content of documents destroyed
-President’s knowledge
-Dean’s knowledge
-Hunt’s knowledge
-Fred F. Fieldings knowledge
-Fielding
-Role on White House staff
-Dean
-Gray
-Ehrlichman’s orders concerning documents
-William J. Casey
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Records moved to Justice Department
-Robert L. Vesco
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-Buzhardt’s conversation with Ralph Erickson, June 6, 1973
-Erickson’s testimony, June 6, 1973
-ITT
-Records moved to Justice Department
-Dean
-Casey
-Harley O. Staggers
-Content
-Release
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Erickson’s contacts with Casey
-Dean’s role
-Casey’s statement concerning Dean
-Erickson
-G. Bradford Cook
-Staggers’s investigation
-Ervin Committee’s awareness
-Records
-Casey’s testimony
-Effect
-Erickson
-Casey
-Antitrust case
-Casey
-Conversations
-Leonard Garment
-Forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt
-Erickson
-Documents moved to Justice Department
-Content
-Anti-trust case
-Ralph W. McLaren
-White House role
-President’s conversations with Kleindienst and John
N. Mitchell
-Prospectus, SEC
-Petersen
-Conversation with President
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
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-Testimony, June 7, 1973
-Sloan’s conversations with Ehrlichman and Dwight L. Chapin
-Motives of participants
-Buzhardt’s dealings with John L. McClellan
-Social Service Council
-An unknown case
-Harry Truman’s investigation after World War II
-Avoidance of headlines
-Petersen
-Motives
-Meeting with President
-Resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Conversation with President
-Dean’s visit to prosecutors
-Ehrlichman’s investigation
-Ehrlichman’s notes
-Dean
-Visit to prosecutor, April 6, 1973
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-Petersen
-Contacts with President in April 1973
-Hunt and national security
-Ellsberg papers to William M. Byrne, Jr.
-Appointment of Cox
-Dean
-Logs in possession
-President’s logs
-Samuel Dash’s conversation with Buzhardt
-Cox’s request
-Dean’s possible statement under oath
-Effects
-Dash, Cox
-Press
[Tape recording system malfunction: 3 seconds]
Watergate
-Dean
-Meetings with President
-President’s recollection
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
-Records
-Questions to Gerald L. Warren
-White House response
-Possible information to Cox and Dash
-Dean’s knowledge
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s notes
-Shaffer’s conversation with Miller
-Dean’s concern
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Moore
-Possible testimony
-Buzhardt’s meeting with Miller and Moore
-Records
-Meetings with President and Moore
-Moore’s recollection
-Buzhardt’s meeting with Miller and Moore
-Moore’s testimony
-Conversations with Moore
-Dean’s culpability
-Dates
-Hunt’s attempted blackmail of Ehrlichman
-Ellsberg case
-Compared to Dean’s conversations with President
-Dean’s forthcoming meeting with President, March 21, 1973
-Conversations with President
-Ellsberg break-in
-Bittman’s alleged blackmail concerning Hunt
[Tape recording system malfunction: 5 seconds]
Watergate
-Dean
-Conversations with President
-March 21, 1973
-Content
-Haldeman
-March 22, 1973
-James W. McCord, Jr.’s letter to Sirica
-Hunt’s involvement
-White House response
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
-Chronology
-March calendar
-March 1973 phone calls
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Ronald L. Zeigler
-March 23, 1973 phone calls
-Camp David
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming chronology
-President’s meetings with Dean
-White House strategy
-Discussion items
-Colson and Chapin
-Roles as White House consultants
[Tape recording system malfunction: 2 seconds]
Watergate
-President’s meetings with Dean
-Discussion items
-Moore’s recollection
-Investigation
-Gray
-Dean’s March 20, 1973 letter under oath
-Veracity
Dean’s letter
-Sloan
-Magruder
-Gordon C. Strachan, Haldeman
-Strachan
-President’s subsequent conversation with Haldeman
-Magruder
-Possible testimony
-Strachan
-Haldeman’s telephone tape
-Strachan
-Statements concerning individuals’ knowledge
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and President
-President’s access to Democratic National Convention [DNC] bugging information
-Magruder
-Statements concerning individuals’ knowledge
-Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward and Carl Bernstein
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-White House staff involvement
-Dean’s statements to President
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman and Strachan
-Dean
-Role
-March 21, 1973 conversation with President
-March 17, 1973 conversation with President
-White House staff involvement
-Dean’s conversation with G[eorge] Gordon Liddy, June 1972
-Strachan
[Tape recording system malfunction: 3 seconds]
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Date of Dean’s testimony
-Possible cross-examination of witnesses
-Fred D. Thompson
-Dean
-March 20, 1973 conversation with President
-President’s statement, June 6, 1973
-Melvin R. Laird
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s retirement from the military
-Effect
-President’s conversation with Laird, June 6, 1973
-Laird
-Conversations with Buzhardt
-Dean
-March 21, 1973 conversation with President
-President’s response
-Popular opinion
-Casey
-Possible White House response
-Forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt
-Mitchell
-ITT
-Antitrust case
-President’s conversation with Kleindienst
-Compared to International Business Machines [IBM] case
-Elliot L. Richardson
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-Prospects
-President’s role
-Ehrlichman
-McLaren
-Dean
-Use immunity
-Attorney
-Possible testimony
-Effect on future trials
-Attacks on President
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Motive
-Transactional immunity
-Perjury
White House strategy
-President’s possible evidence against
-Miller
-Moore’s attorney
-Background
-John F. Kennedy administration
-Conversations with Charles Shaffer
-President’s possible evidence against Dean
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Depositions
-Dean conversations
-Buzhardt’s conversation with Frank H. Strickler
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Tape Subject Log
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-Grand jury
-Mandate
-Cox’s view
-Silbert’s actions
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Watergate
-President’s notes
-White House response
-Counsel’s team
-Thomas A. Pappas
-President’s March 21, 1973 conversation with Dean
-Fund-raising
-Mitchell
-Motive
-Mitchell
-Possible testimony
-Vesco
-Perjury
South Carolina Parole Board
-Repentance
-A minister
-Statements of a client of Buzhardt’s
-Guilt
-Family honor
Watergate
-Mitchell
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-Possible prison term
-Vesco
-Attorney
-Attorney General from Warren G. Harding’s administration
-Harry Daugherty
-Martha Mitchell
-Pappas
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming inquiries
-Grand jury, Ervin Committee
-Mitchell, President
-Kalmbach
-Role
-Pappas
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming inquiry
-Location
-Dean’s possible testimony
-John B. Connally’s view
-Popular opinion concerning the President’s role
-President’s knowledge
-Conversations with staff members
-Dean, Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Involvement
-Credibility
-Popular opinion
-Media efforts
-White House response
-Possible testimony
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Moore, Petersen, and Colson
-Petersen
-Dean
-Possible investigations
-Silbert, Petersen
-Silbert’s thoroughness
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] inquiry
-Opinions of Gray and Kleindienst
-Ehrlichman
-President’s meeting with Gray
-W. Mark Felt
-Watergate investigation
-Gray
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-Nominated
-Dean’s view
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Conversation with President, June 1972
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Possible conversation with Dean
-Feelings concerning Mitchell
-Dean
-Motives
-Mitchell
-Knowledge of Magruder’s perjury
-Mitchell
-Gray
-FBI investigation
-Mitchell
-Actions concerning accused individuals
-President’s administration characterized
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Bobby Baker
-Buzhardt’s acquaintance
-Mrs. Buzhardt
-Previous administrations
-President’s administration
-Future of President’s administration
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:53 pm.
President’s schedule
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.
Watergate
-Criminal conduct
-Effect on administration
-News leads for weekend
-Henry A. Kissinger
-New York Times
-Documents
-Additional burglaries
-Plumbers
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Tape Subject Log
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-Justice Department
-Plumbers
-Activities
-Ehrlichman
-News leads for weekend
-Anthony T. Ulasewicz
-Ehrlichman’s employee
-Super-spy rumor
-Robert S. Strauss’s claims concerning break-in of house
-Break-in at President’s physician’s office
-Daniel Schorr’s claims concerning break-in of house
-Seymour Hirsh
-Investigation
-Break-in
-1972 campaign
-George S. McGovern’s finances
-Violence
-San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles
-Colson’s possible testimony
-Ehrlichman
Buzhardt left at 5:30 p.m.