Date: March 16, 1973

Time: 10:34 am -11:10 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with John W. Dean III.

Watergate

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files disclosure to investigation

-Press conference question

-Richard G. Kleindienst’s meeting with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. and Howard H.

Baker, Jr.

-Evaluated report on files

-Inspection by committee counsel

-Limits on disclosure

-Previous agreements with J. Edgar Hoover

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s testimony to Judiciary Committee

-Raw files

-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy

-Roman L. Hruska’s inspection

-Limits on raw files

-James O. Eastland

-Gray

-FBI investigations

-Control

-Credibility of FBI

-Dean report

-Richard A. Moore

-Oral report

-Summary of findings

-Briefing of Ziegler, White House staff

-Cooperation with Congress

-Washington Star reports

-White House clarifications

-FBI files

-Kennedy

-Judiciary Committee

-Chairman, ranking members

-Gray

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-Release to Attorney General

-Propriety

-Gray’s testimony

-Meeting with Ervin and Baker

-Administration’s position

-Baker’s statements on television [TV]

-Kleindienst

-Previous conversation with President

-Discussion of issues and ground rules

-Options

-Baker’s motives

-John N. Mitchell

-Talk with Baker

-Baker

-Talk with President

-Contents

-Contacts with Kleindienst

-Influence of Washington, D.C. on attitudes

-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.

-Edward J. Gurney

-Position on Watergate

-Political aspirations

-Fred D. Thompson

-Dealings with Samuel Dash

-Ervin Committee

-Investigation of charges against Democrats

-Publicity

-Barry M. Goldwater speech

-Letter to Ervin

-William H. Sullivan

-Material

-Call to Dean

-Lyndon B. Johnson

-Amount of material

-Need to broaden investigation

-Democrats

-Strength, organization

-Press

-Detroit News

-Inadequacies of White House efforts

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-President’s image

-Protection

-Dangers

-Disclosure of information

-Dean testimony

-Watergate

-Donald H. Segretti

-Disclosure of information

-Briefing of Ziegler

-Strategy

-Dean report

-Oral report

-Responses to committee

-Post election

-Full disclosure

-Dangers

-Advantages

-Cover-up

-Interviews of White House staff at White House offices by Dash

-Pre-emption of hearings

-Full disclosure

-Problems

-Ervin Committee

-Baker

-Court challenge

-Credibility

-Expressions of concern

-Work by Dean and Moore

-Need for master plan

-Stay at Camp David

-Mitchell

-Judgment

-John D. Ehrlichman, Maurice H. Stans

-G. Harrold Carswell, Kleindienst, Gray

-Cover-up

-Avoidance

-Necessity

-Presidency

-Ziegler’s answer on Dwight L. Chapin and Segretti at press conference

-Misleading statements

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-News summary

-Note to Dean from President

-FBI agent’s comments

-Herbert W. Kalmbach

-FBI files

-Dean’s meeting with Ziegler

An unknown man entered at an unknown time between 10:34 am and 10:58 am.

Request for Ziegler’s attendance at meeting

Watergate

-TV coverage of press conference

-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]

-John W. Chancellor

-President’s responses to questions

-Credibility

-Advantages of TV

-President’s credibility

-Necessity

-Ervin Committee

-Activities, thinking

-White House knowledge

-Attitude of members

-Gurney, Baker

Ziegler entered at 10:58 am.

-White House strategy

-FBI files

-Kleindienst’s report to Ervin and Baker

-Disclosure

-Answer to press

-Limitations, guidelines

-Hoover precedent

-Statement on disclosure

-Raw files

-Danger to innocent people

-Committee chairman

-Ervin

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-White House policy

-Kleindienst

-Ervin and Baker

-Gray

-Orders from White House

-Supervision of Attorney General

-Leaks to press from Judiciary Committee

-Kalmbach

-White House policy

-Gray

-Testimony

-Disclosure of information

-Dean report

-Format

-Statements

-Ehrlichman

-Kleindienst’s meeting with Ervin and Baker

-Ziegler’s comments to press

-President’s meeting with Baker

-White House staff appearances before Committee

-President’s opposition

-Ervin’s knowledge

-Baker’s statement

-Baker’s ideas on testimony

-Stans

-Mitchell

-President’s view

-White House staff

-White House staff

-Testimony before Committee

Dean’s call to Kleindienst

Dean left at 11:06 am.

Dean’s job

-Difficulties

President’s press conference

-TV coverage

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-Watergate

-Issues covered in T.V. coverage

-Food prices, Dr. David K. E. Bruce’s appointment

-Vietnam settlement

Watergate

-Ziegler’s statement

-Cooperation of administration

-President’s orders

-Limitations

-Past precedents

-Ziegler’s briefing on Watergate

-Problem of cover-up

-Segretti

-Protection of President

-Ervin Committee

-Work with White House

-Complete disclosure of facts

-Concern for innocent

-Ziegler’s comments for press

-Past statements

-Stans

-Referral to President’s statement

President’s press conference

-TV coverage

-Ziegler’s evaluation

-Press hostility

-Press respect for President

-Firmness

-Wire services

-Reactions

-Networks, morning newspapers

-Washington Star

Ziegler left at 11:10 am.

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