Date: May 22, 1973

Time: 8:39 pm -8 :54 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Bryce N. Harlow.

Watergate

-Harlow’s statements

-Firing of Sherman Adams

-President’s role

-Harlow’s statements

-Support for the President

-Allies

-Congress

-Harlow’s conversation with Daniel H. Kuykendall

-President’s statement on Watergate

-Kuykendall’s forthcoming conversations

-George H. W. Bush, Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford

-Telegram

-Kuykendall’s family’s reaction to the President’s statement

-Kuykendall and wife

-Birch society

-White House statement on Watergate

-President’s forthcoming press conference

-Possible future revelations

-Ervin Committee

-President’s possible actions

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

-Possible actions

-Ervin Committee

-President’s possible actions

-Mood of nation

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-President’s possible resignation

-Spiro T. Agnew

-Harlow’s view

-President’s role

-President’s statement

-Dissemination

-Kuykendall

-Possible form of support

-Statement

-Press coverage

-Bush, Scott, and Ford

-Kuykendall’s reaction

-President’s actions as Vice President

-John F. Dulles, Adams, and Dwight D. Eisenhower

-President’s subordinates

-Job status

-President’s statement

-Ervin Committee

-President’s possible actions

-Testimony

-Effect on presidency

-Harlow’s and William E. Timmons’s conversation with Congressional

leaders

-Bush’s view

-Griffin’s and Scott’s view

-Ford’s and Leslie C. Arends’s view

-Bush’s view

-Howard H. Baker, Jr.

-Presidency

-President’s statement

-“Nervous in the service”

-Harlow’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-President’s schedule

-Congressional leaders

-Camp David

-Griffin’s view

-Visit with the President

-Relationship

-Harlow’s possible role

-Haig

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-Harlow’s schedule

-Harlow’s conversation with Haig

-Harlow’s conversation with southern chairmen

-Kevin P. Phillips

-Harlow’s possible role

-Harlow’s possible role