Date: June 21, 1973
Time: Unknown between 5:22 pm – 7:05 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
Watergate
-President’s schedule
-Buzhardt’s conversations with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-President’s schedule
-John W. Dean, III
-Possible cross-examination
-Handling of funds
-Amounts
-Payments to defendants
-Frederick C. LaRue
-Amount
-Gordon C. Strachan
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-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s message to Paul L. O’Brien, March 17, 1973 or
March 18, 1973
-$123,000
-O’Brien’s subsequent call to Dean
-Content
-March 20, 1973 pick-up by Hunt
-Hunt’s testimony
-Amount
-William O. Bittman’s role
-LaRue’s role
-John J. Caulfield’s role
-Bittman, Dean
-Timing of payments
-Dean’s March 21, 1973 conversation with President
-Dean’s conversation with James Neal
-O’Brien
-Conversations among Strachan, Lawrence M. Higby, and H. R.
(“Bob”) Haldeman
-Content
-Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP]
-[First name unknown] Butterfield
-Strachan’s conversation with Higby
-Dean
-Payments to defendants
-Haldeman’s view
-CRP
-Instructions to Strachan
-LaRue
-Strachan’s memory
-Strachan
-Possible immunity
-Ervin Committee
-John D. Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Handling of funds
-Buzhardt’s conversation with Maurice Stans
-Jeb Stuart Magruder, Herbert L. Porter
-Records
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-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible cross-examination of Dean
-Fred D. Thompson
-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Edward Gurney
-Executive session with Dean
-Samuel Dash
-Thompson’s question concerning handling of funds
-W. Richard Howard
-Dean’s response
-Amount
-Howard
-Use
-Maureen Dean
-Dean
-Handling of funds
-Seymour M. Hirsch
-Charles W. Colson
-Thompson’s investigation
-Release of story
-Buzhardt’s conversation with an unknown Federal Bureau
of Investigation [FBI] agent
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Expected effect
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President
-Paul Duke’s television report
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s call to Buzhardt
-Melvin R. Laird’s office
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Thompson’s view
-Dash and Thompson
-Conversation with Dean’s lawyer
-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Television reports
-Gurney
-Meeting with President
-White House staff involvement
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-Strachan
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Thompson’s view
-Buzhardt’s credibility
-September 15, 1972 meeting with President
-IRS investigation of Larry F. O’Brien
-Thompson’s and Dash’s response
-Democratic members’ response
-IRS investigation of O’Brien
-Dean’s investigation
-Howard R. Hughes’s $220,000
-Las Vegas Sun
-George Shultz
-Possible effects
-IRS
-Democrats
-Colson
-Buzhardt’s conversation with Haldeman
-Ervin Committee view
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Effect
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Richard A. Moore
-La Costa meeting
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Conversations with Hunt
-Colson
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony
-Democratic members
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Moore
-John N. Mitchell
-White House response
-Ziegler
-President’s possible meeting with reporters
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-Ervin Committee hearings
-Moore, Henry E. Petersen, Haldeman
-Dean, Archibald Cox
-Petersen’s view
-White House response
-President’s possible meeting with reporters
-Dean
-Colson
-Hunt Tape concerning payoffs and CRP
-Content
-Dean
-Transcripts
-Ervin Committee
-Prosecutors
-Knowledge concerning funds for defendants
-CRP
-Funds for defendants
-CRP
-Moore
-Herbert W. Kalmbach, LaRue
-Knowledge
-Dean
-Colson’s suppositions concerning CRP
-Kalmbach, LaRue
-Thomas A. Pappas
-Dean’s knowledge
-Mitchell
-Dean’s role
-LaRue
-Role
-Testimony
-Frederic M. Vinson, Jr.
-Role
-Mitchell
-O’Brien
-O’Brien
-Testimony concerning role
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-Dean
-Dean
-Mitchell’s knowledge of activities
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Statement
-Charles Shaffer
-Statement
-Release
-Possible leak
-Effect on television
-Television coverage
-Senate schedule
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Possible cross-examination
-Effect
-Possible response
-Haldeman’s possible statement
-Colson
-Moore’s possible statement
-Jack Miller
-Colson
-Possible press conferences
-Buzhardt
-Thompson’s request
-IRS and other information
-Cross-examination
-Possible disbarment
-Immunity
-Effect
-Funds
-CRP’s forthcoming actions
-Stans, Kenneth Parkinson, and Stans’s lawyer Robert W. Barker
-Return of funds demand
-Timing
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Stans
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-Stans
-Ervin Committee testimony characterized
-Cox
-Possible indictments
-Conversation with Buzhardt, June 21, 1973
-Request for documents
-Taping of telephone calls
-Ervin Committee documents
-Dash
-Buzhardt’s views
-Dean
-Letters to Buzhardt
-Dean’s meetings with President
-Tenure in office
-Possible resignation
-Popular opinion
-Buzhardt’s conversation with Harry Dent
-John B. Connally’s view
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Possible effect
-Statement
-Cox
-Tenure in office
-Elliot L. Richardson’s tenure in office
-Richardson
-Conversation with Buzhardt, June 16, 1973
-Special Prosecutor’s office
-Tactics
-Desire to tape phone calls in Pentagon
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Possible effect
-David L. Solomon [?]
-Secretary’s notes
-Taping of phone calls at Justice Department
-Laird
-Cox
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-Handling by White House
-Break-in of Dr. Lewis Fielding’s office
-Jurisdiction
-Morton H. Halperin
-Suit against Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig
-Wiretap
-National security
-FBI
-Cox
-Jurisdiction
-Richardson’s suggestion
-Halperin wiretap
-Wiretaps
-John F. or Robert F. Kennedy
-Buzhardt’s request for list from FBI
-Preliminary list
-Frank Koppel
-John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe
-Richardson’s possible conversation with President
-List of Kennedy taps
-Possible release
-Possible FBI leaks
-Clarence Kelley
-Status of confirmation
-Wiretaps
-Richardson
-Reasons
-Halperin
-Lawsuit
-Supreme Court criteria
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Watergate
-Wiretaps
-Richardson
-Forthcoming conversation with Cox
-Jurisdiction
-Confirmation
-Cox
-Expectation concerning tenure in office
-Grand Jury
-Indictments
-Prosecutors
-Earl J. Silbert
-Possible indictments
-Dean
-Mitchell
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s prior knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-Possible perjury charge
-Memorandum
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh’s statement
-Ehrlichman’s memo concerning psychiatric file
-Content
-Ehrlichman
-Possible perjury
-Supreme Court ruling
-Grand Jury
-Senate Armed Services Committee
-House Armed Services Committee
-Appropriations Committee
-John L. McClellan
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-Possible indictment
-Prosecutors
-Possible indictments
-Petersen’s conversation with President
-Convictions
-District of Columbia Juries
-James Neal
-Liaison with Cox
-Role in Justice Department
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Cox
-Indictments
-Appeals
-Tenure in office
-Forthcoming report to Congress
-Richardson
-Compared to Ervin Committee
-Popular opinion
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Status
-Leonard Garment’s view
-Charles A. Wright’s view
-Location
-Tom Merinus [sp?]
-Cox
-Tenure in office
-Possible replacement
-Response to investigation
-Ervin Committee
-Dash
-Response to investigation
-Buzhardt’s conversations with Dash and Thompson
-President
-Mitchell
-Magruder’s testimony
-Magruder
-Dean
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-Magruder
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman’s interviews contrasted with Haldeman’s
-Dean’s knowledge
-Ervin Committee
-Ehrlichman’s interview contrasted with Haldeman’s
-Cox
-Possible confrontation with White House
-Request for documents
-Timing
-Letters to Buzhardt
-Requests for documents
-Ziegler
-Request for inventory of President’s files
-Buzhardt’s response
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Dean
-Possible effect of testimony
-Role
-Possible effect of testimony
-Magruder
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Popular expectations
-Use immunity
-Perjury
-Phrase concerning L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s actions
-Ronald Ziegler, President, Moore
-White House taping system
-Dean’s possible suspicions
-White House response
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Cox
-Possible subpoena of President’s papers
-Petersen
-Effect
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-A subpoena to Buzhardt
-Richardson
-Possible confrontation with Cox
-Timing
-Dean’s testimony
-Staff
-Jonathan Moore
-John T. Smith, II
-Gerard Smith’s son
-President’s schedule
-California
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-White House response
-Richardson
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman resignations
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Interview with staff
-Conversation with President
-J. Edgar Hoover’s conversation with President concerning
1968 campaign plane bugging
-Mitchell
-Context
-Wiretaps
-William C. Sullivan
-Cartha D. (“Deke”) DeLoach
-Popular opinion
-Johnson
-Press reports
-President’s schedule
-San Clemente
-Buzhardt’s work
-Haig
-White House response
-Dean’s forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
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Buzhardt left at 7:05 pm.