Date: May 3, 1973
Time: 8:51 am – 9:09 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Richard G. Kleindienst.
Watergate
-Kleindienst’s possible conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-Kleindienst’s meeting with President
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Justice Department
-Ellsberg break-in
-Picture
-Kleindienst’s knowledge
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Henry E. Petersen
-Kleindienst’s meeting with President
-Ellsberg trial
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-John W. Dean III
-Dean’s meeting with President, March 1973
-Photograph
-Location
-Ellsberg break-in
-Source of evidence
-Dean’s conversation with Earl J. Silbert
-Admissions by Hunt and Liddy
-Kleindienst’s responsibility
-Supreme Court decisions
-Results
-Justice Department’s handling of evidence
-Memoranda
-Silbert to Petersen
-John L. Martin to Kevin T. Maroney
-Kleindienst’s possible conversation with Richardson
-Dean’s allegations
-President’s response to Kleindienst’s information
-Dean’s conversations with the President, 3/73
-Ellsberg case
-Hunt and Liddy
-Justice Department’s knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-April 15, 1973
-Petersen
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Photograph
-Kleindienst’s possible conversation with Richardson
-President’s knowledge of Ellsberg break-in
-President’s instructions to Petersen
-Dean’s allegations
-Handling by Justice Department
-Kleindienst’s conversation with President
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-Hunt’s activities with White House
-National security
-John N. Mitchell
-Evidence to prosecution
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-Kleindienst’s report to Richardson
-President’s meetings with Dean
-Subjects
-Timing
-President’s will
-Kleindienst’s possible conversation with Richardson
-President’s knowledge
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-Kleindienst’s conversation with Richardson, May 2
-Dean’s allegations
-Justice Department’s handling
-W. Matthew Byrne
-President’s meetings with Dean
-Hunt’s and Liddy’s involvement in Ellsberg case
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-Kleindienst’s possible conversation with Richardson
-President’s cooperation with investigation
-Kleindienst’s possible conversation with Leonard Garment concerning Ellsberg
break-in
-President’s knowledge
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] guards in offices of Haldeman and
Ehrlichman
-President’s statement in Cabinet meeting
-Kleindienst’s role
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Garment
-Files
-Ownership
-Access
-Kleindienst’s possible conversation with Petersen
-President’s knowledge
-Dean
-President’s conversation with Petersen
Kleindienst left at 9:09 am.
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