Date: April 12, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:57 am and 9:55 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
President’s schedule
-Meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Paul W. Keyes
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Party
-Changes
-Call to President
-Time
-Briefing for President
-Meetings about the economy
-Meeting with the President
-Briefing notes
-Dinner of White House Correspondents’ Association
-Awards
-Refreshments
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-President’s attendance in 1971
-Entertainment
-Reception line
-Mike Curb Congregation
-White House performance
-Reception
-President’s attendance
-Precedents
-Previous meeting
-President’s remarks
-Scheduling
-Keyes
-Meeting with President
-Briefing notes
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.
John D. Ehrlichman entered the room at an unknow time between 9:17 am and 9:55 am.
Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] suit about dismissed employees
-Status of case
-Administration’s response
-Appeal
-Court decision
-Judge
-Appointment
-Administration’s response
-Appeal
Watergate
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with William P. Rogers
-Tom Clarke
-Frank J. Lausche
-Special prosecutor
-Necessity
-Mitchell
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-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Implications
-Ervin Committee
-Ehrlichman’s negotiations with Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
-Commencement of hearings
-James W. McCord’s forthcoming testimony
-Ehrlichman’s negotiations with Ervin
-Witness schedule
-Dwight L. Chapin
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Charles Colson
-Corroborating witnesses
-McCord
-Theft of document
-Bernard W. Fensterwald
-Sworn statements from staff
-Impeachment of John W. Dean, III’s investigation
-Attacks by Republicans
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Goldwater
-Peggy [Goldwater?]
-Goldwater
-Characterized
-President’s response to Goldwater’s letter
-William E. Timmons
-Goldwater
-Interview with Godfrey Sperling, Jr.
Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:26 am.
Call from Colson
-Return call by the President
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Appearance at Middlesex Club
-Time
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.
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Call from Colson
-Colson’s location
Watergate
-Colson
-Contacts with Ehrlichman
-Fred F. Fielding’s conversations with Colson’s attorney
Base closings
-William E. Timmons
-Memorandum to President
-Henry Bellmon’s candidacy
-Oklahoma
-Pennsylvania
-Portsmouth, New Hampshire
-Kansas
-Robert J. Dole
-Number of employees
-Portsmouth
-Reduction of size
-Dole
-Implications of keeping the base open
-Characterized
-Ramifications of base closings
-Timmons
-Meeting with Dole
-Administration’s point of view
-Ehrlichman meeting
-George H. W. Bush
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Clark MacGregor
-Deal making
-Role as spokesman
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Harlow
-Deal making
-Dole
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Watergate
-Popular impression of President’s activities
-Statements to President
-Motives of participants
-Special prosecutor
-Sworn statements by White House staff
-Investigation
-Dean
-Goldwater, Armstrong
-Reaction to refusal to sign sworn statements
-President’s request for sworn statement
-Dean investigation
-Timing
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Dean investigation
-President’s request for sworn statements
-Sworn statements
-Colson
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-Chapin
-Dean
President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Peter J. Brennan
-Assistance
-Attendance
-Frederick B. Dent
-Brennan
-President’s remarks to Building Trades unions
Watergate
-President’s activity in investigating
-Special prosecutor
-Problems
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-Selection
-Judges
-Law school deans
-Joseph T. Sneed
-Charles A. Wright
-James Q. Wilson
-Background
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Wright
-Background
-Haldeman
-Possible appearance before Grand Jury
-Volunteering
-Mitchell’s reaction
-Connection with Donald H. Segretti
Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 9:26 am.
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger
Kissinger left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.
Watergate
-Haldeman
-Statement
-Ervin Committee
-Timing of release
-Content
-Results
-Testimony to Grand Jury
-Volunteering
-Problems
-Mitchell
-State of readiness
-Timing of release
-Grand Jury
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-Previous testimony
-Ehrlichman call to Kleindienst
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Chapin
-Haldeman
-Statement
-Connection with Segretti
-Possible wording
-Ervin Committee
-Televised hearings
-Ehrlichman’s negotiations with Ervin and Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Feedback from committee staff
-Televised hearings
-Haldeman
-Statement
-Name before Grand Jury
-Ehrlichman call to Kleindienst
-Kleindienst’s willingness to give information
-Personnel changes
-Kleindienst’s departure
-New Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] Director
-Special prosecutor
-Ervin Committee
-Forthcoming promulgation of rules
-Ehrlichman’s appearance on “Meet the Press”
-Release of sworn statements by White House staff
-Ehrlichman conversation with Richard A. Moore concerning Mitchell
-McCord’s testimony concerning reports
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-White House
-Ehrlichman conversation with Dean concerning reports
-Strachan
-Chapin
-Statements by White House staff
-Goldwater
-Rogers
-Special prosecutor
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-Possible statement by President
-Implication of Mitchell
-Funds
-Statements on involvement
-Dean
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
Brennan
-Country club membership
-President’s request
-Rogers
-Meeting with membership committee chairman
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 9:26 am.
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.
Watergate
-White House staff
-Dean
-Haldeman
-Comments by Republicans concerning Haldeman
-Goldwater
-Bush
-Gerald R. Ford
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Ervin on April 11, 1973
-Ervin’s opinion of situation
Ehrlichman left at 9:55 am.
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