Date: May 9, 1973

Time: 9:40 am – 10:02 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Ziegler’s forthcoming call to Henry E. Petersen

President’s schedule

-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 10:02 am.

President’s meeting with staff member

-George P. Shultz

-Haig’s concern

Watergate

-White House counterattack

-John W. Dean, III

-John B. Connally

-William Proxmire’s statement

-Press activity

-Spiro T. Agnew’s suitability

-Connally

-Dean

-Documents

-Possible statements

-Possible documents from H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D.

Ehrlichman

-Documents

-Content

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-Executive privilege

-Dean and Ervin Committee

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s forthcoming meeting with [Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”)

Rose

-Donald E. Santarelli

-Relationship with Dean

-Edward L. Morgan

-President’s previous conversation with Haldeman

-Executive privilege

-Haldeman’s notes

-Leonard Garment

-President’s papers

-Lyndon B. Johnson

-Staff members’ notes

-Haldeman’s notes

-Haig’s conversation with Garment

-Haldeman

-Ehrlichman

-Executive privilege

-Possible public statement

-Executive privilege

-Extent

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Immunity

-Possible delay

-Lawyers for Haldeman and John N. Mitchell

-Buzhardt [?], John J. Wilson, Garment

-Justice Department

-Executive privilege

-Possible effect on Mitchell

-Possible effect on Dean

-Possible actions by Attorney General

-Garment

-Executive privilege

-Extent

-Presentation of administration’s view

-Guidelines

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-Ervin Committee

-Grand jury

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Appearance of cover-up

-President’s papers

-National security

-Pentagon Papers

-New York Times

-Daniel Ellsberg

-Contents

-Congressmen, ambassadors

-Pentagon Papers

-White House investigation

-Mitchell’s knowledge

-J. Edgar Hoover

-Louis Marx, Eleanor Marx Ellsberg

-Effect of leaks on White House

-Ellsberg

-Effect on presidency

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Media handling

-Motives of participants

-President’s schedule

-Dean’s documents

-Pending legal action

-White House handling

-Removal of files from White House

-Dean

-Documents

Haig left at 10:02 am.

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