Date: April 16, 1973

Time: 12:58 pm – 1:37 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate

-Ziegler’s schedule

-John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Building Trades event

-Richard Moore, Leonard Garment, H. Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose

-Garment

-President’s schedule

-William P. Rogers

-Memorandum to President

-Conversation with Ziegler

-President’s needs

-Advice of Rogers

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-President’s schedule

-Ziegler’s meeting with John D. Ehrlichman

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 1:37 pm.

President’s schedule

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 12:58 pm.

Watergate

-White House correspondents’ dinner

-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s conversation with Stephen Rosenfeld of Washington

Post

-Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s information

-Effect on President’s presidency

-Rosenfeld

-Support for President

-Woodward’s conversation with David R. Gergen

-Bernstein

-Information about Watergate

-Washington Post’s recent activities

-Motives

-Waiting for White House

-Possible action by President

-Moore, Garment, Rose, Ziegler

-Attorney General

-John W. Dean, III’s report

-Grand jury’s information

-Dean’s withdolding of information

-Dean

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-Withholding of information

-Resignation

-US Attorney

-President’s conversation with Henry E. Petersen, April 15,

1973

-Effect on prosecutions

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-Possible statement

-Acquisition of information

-Special prosecutor

-Petersen’s role

-Special prosecutor

-Problems

-Petersen

-Possible action by President

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean resignations

-Dean

-Resignation

-Removal from case

-Jeb Stuart Magruder

-Removal

-Effect on prosecution

-Possible statement

-Role of grand jury

-Ervin Committee

-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.’s statement

-Appearance of White House staff

-Televised hearings

-Dean, Magruder

-Ehrlichman’s opinion

-Suspension of White House staff members

-Effect

-Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-Benefits to President

-Harm to usefulness

-Future revelations

-Magruder and John N. Mitchell’s activities

-White House staff’s involvement

-Protection of office of President

-Bold activities

-Minimum action

-Rose’s advice

-Haldeman, Erhlichman

-Haldeman

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-Effects

-Protection of President

-Public opinion

-President’s knowledge of $350,000

-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Dean

-Rose’s advice

-Moore

-President’s investigation

-Compared with Thomas F. Eagleton’s actions

-George S. McGovern’s knowledge of shock therapy

-Action by President

-Effect on staff

-President’s consideration

[The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 1:37 pm.]