Date: April 26, 1973

Time: 11:22 am – 12:11 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

Ronald L. Ziegler’s location

-Henry A. Kissinger [?]

-Understanding

The unknown man and Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 11:22 am.

Story on Melvin R. Laird

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:22 am.

Kissinger’s meeting with President

-Ziegler’s briefing

-Delay

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:11 pm.

Laird

-Meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Possible future role in Congressional relations

-William E. Timmons

-Story concerning replacing Haldeman

-Ziegler’s response

-Discussions with President

-Congressional relations

-Vetoes

-National defense budget

Watergate

-John J. Wilson

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-Meeting of President, April 25, 1973

-President’s schedule

-Henry E. Petersen

-Meeting with President, April 25, 1973

-Reason for meeting

-President’s meeting with Petersen, April 25, 1973

-Ziegler’s meeting with press

-President’s activities

-Kissinger

-Willy Brandt’s state visit

-Georges J. R. Pompidou

-Kissinger

-Paris

-President’s trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

-Announcement

-Ziegler’s future briefings of press

-President’s knowledge of Watergate

-President’s veracity

-Ziegler’s veracity

-Ziegler’s March 30, 1973 statement

-John W. Dean III

-President’s knowledge

-Dean

-Camp David

-Report

-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s and James W. McCord’s accounts

-President’s conversations with Petersen

-Possible resignations

-President’s calls on Easter to White House staff

-President’s investigation

-Charges against individuals

-Possible action by President

-Dean

-Meetings with President

-Meetings with U.S. attorney

-April 9, 1973 meeting with the President

-Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman

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-President’s activities

-Watergate investigations

-Domestic economy

-Foreign policy

-Individuals involved in Watergate

-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing

-Jack N. Anderson’s April 26, 1973 column

-President’s knowledge

-Accuracy

-President’s investigation

-Possible actions

-Corroborative evidence

-Standards of conduct

-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing

-White House staff changes

-Laird

-William P. Rogers

-[David] Kenneth Rush

-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.

-Leonard Garment

-Ziegler’s conversation with Petersen

-Individuals involved

-President’s views

-Dirty tricks

-Infiltration

-Peace movement

-[First name unknown] Reece [?]

-George S. McGovern campaign

-Standards of judgment

-Dean

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Timing of resignation

-John B. Connally

-Bryce N. Harlow

-President’s activities

-Conversations with Petersen

-Grand jury

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-Survivability

-Press’s view

-Sprio T. Agnew

-Press’s view

-President’s campaigns

-1968, 1960

-1962

-Democrats for Nixon

-Ad in San Francisco

-1972

-Clark MacGregor

-McGovern and violence

-Campaign ads

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-President’s conversation with Haldeman

-Dean

-Blackmail of President

-Request for meeting with the President

-Credibility

-Conversations with President

-Conversations with Ziegler

-Conversations with President, March 21, 1973

-President’s motives

-Concealment of facts

-Conversation with John N. Mitchell and Magruder

-Conversation with G. Gordon Liddy

-President’s conversation with Petersen

-Daniel Ellsberg break-in

-Information furnished to judge

-President’s instructions to Richard G. Kleindienst

-Dean’s possible testimony

-Ehrlichman’s conversation with President

-Ehrlichman’s involvement

-Press coverage

-President’s forthcoming action

-Postcards sent to station WTTG

-Postcards sent to President

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-President’s knowledge

-Effect of news stories

-Ziegler and President’s conversations in Florida

-Effect of President’s forthcoming action

-Dean’s conversation with President, March 21, 1973

-William O. Bittman’s threats

-Dean’s possible statement

-Possible tape recording by Dean

-President’s response

-Dean’s possible statement

-President’s motives

-Dean

-Threat to President

-Credibility

-Haldeman’s involvement

-Contrast with Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s credibility

-Conversations with President

-Executive privilege

-Leaks to press

-National security discussions

-Hypothetical scenarios

-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

[USSR]

-Attack on Moscow

-Attack on People’s Republic of

China [PRC]

-US retaliation

-Effect on Henry A. Kissinger

-President’s motives

-Rogers’s call to Ziegler

-Offer to President

-Support for President

-John B. Connally

-President’s schedule

-New Majority dinner

-Congress

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

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-Possible resignations

-Congressional demands

-Petersen’s opinion

-Effect of possible charges

Ziegler left at 12:11 pm.