Date: May 8, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:31 pm and 5:16 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
President’s schedule
-Pen [?]
-Weather [?]
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered and Bull left at 4:32 pm.
Watergate
-Haig’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-John W. Dean, III’s papers
-Justice Department
-Statement
An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez ?] entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm.
Refreshment
The unknown person [Manolo Sanchez ?] left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.
Watergate
-Haig’s conversation with Richardson
-Dean’s papers
-Copies
-Cabinet changes
-Confirmation hearings
-Attorney General
-Special Prosecutor
-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Travel to Washington, DC
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-President’s previous conversation with Richard A. Moore
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Attorneys for John N. Mitchell, John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”)
Haldeman
-Dean
-Possible testimony
-Rose
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible injunction
-Immunity
-Immunity for Dean
-Executive privilege
-Grand jury
-Effect on Haldeman
-Effect on judicial process
-Executive privilege
-Perception of indirect admission
-“Guilt of President”
-Grand jury testimony compared to Congressional testimony
-Guidelines for witnesses
-Leonard Garment
-Rose, Moore
-Judge John J. Sirica
-Dean
-Conversation with President and Haldeman, September 15, 1972
-Haig’s informing Haldeman
-Haldeman’s forthcoming grand jury
-Need for truth
-Dean
-Meeting with President and Haldeman, September 15, 1972
-Haldeman’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Possible effects of forthcoming testimony
-Possible statements
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming grand jury testimony
-Executive privilege
-White House strategy
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-Garment
-Judgment
Legal Services Bill
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-President’s message to Agnew
Watergate
-Dean
-Possible immunity from judge
-Garment
-President’s schedule
-Dinner, May 9
-President’s talk
-Moore [?]
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm.
Senate’s schedule
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.
Watergate
-President’s talk
-Content
-Presidency
-Richardson
-Dean
-Possible testimony before Ervin Committee
-Executive privilege
-Application
-Guidance for grand jury witnesses
-President’s papers
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s possible testimony
-Documentary evidence in White House files
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-National security
-Administration response
-Moore
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Garment
-Rose
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan, Moore, Rose, Garment
-William P. Rogers
-Executive privilege
-Conversations with President regarding illegal activities
-National security
-Dean
-Immunity
-Presidency
-John B. Connally’s advice regarding price freeze
-Declaration of war
-Public mood
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible delays by administration
-Garment
-Possible injunction by lawyers for Mitchell and Haldeman
-Possible action by White House
-Grand jury indictments
-Richardson’s confirmation
Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-William E. Colby
Personnel Appointments
-William E. Colby
-Announcement
-Richardson’s confirmation
-Delay
-Recommendation
-Colby
-Domestic Council
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-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] directorship
-Cole
-William E. Timmons
-List of nominees
-Timing of announcement
-Edward A. McCabe
-Letter to President
-Haig’s consultation with Bryce N. Harlow
-Usefulness
Watergate
-Dean
-Rogers
-Garment
-Executive privilege
-Grand jury
-Guidelines
-Ziegler [?]
-Ervin Committee
-Appearance of cover-up
-Defendants’ rights
-Richardson
-Richardson
-Confirmation hearings
-Dean
-Documents
-Attorney General’s demand
-Prosecutors
-Ownership
-Presidential papers
-Haldeman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Administration’s position
Haig left at 5:16 pm.
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