Date: May 10, 1973
Time: 12:31pm – 12:45 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
President’s schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
Watergate
-Haig’s conversation with William P. Rogers
-Warren E. Burger
-Possible action by Elliot L. Richardson
-Timing of indictments
-New York Times article
-Special Prosecutor
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s plan
-Samuel J. Ervin
-Warren E. Hearnes and Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Support for George S. McGovern
-Relationship to Buzhardt
-John C. Stennis
-Selection process
Campaign practices reform
-Resolution by Congress
-Leonard Garment
-Possible speech by the President
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Timing
-Press coverage
-Content
-Composition of blue ribbon commission
Presidential counselors
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-Earl L. Butz’s opposition
-Garment and Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Power
-Role
Cabinet
-Mood
-Previous meeting
-Weinberger, Butz and John B. Connally
Watergate
-Special Prosecutor
-Ervin
-Hearnes
-Buzhardt
-President’s meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, May 10
-John D. Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Finances
-Need for calm in White House
-Haldeman’s lawyers’ meeting with Garment
-Executive privilege
White House legal counsel
-Garment
-Haig’s assessment
-Chemistry
-Role on White House staff
-Buzhardt
-Role on White House staff
-Reaction
-Haig’s assessment
Campaign practices and finance reform
-Garment
-Preparation of speech by the President
-Deadline
-Price
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-Limits on campaign contributions
-Business, labor unions
-Potential affect on Republican part
Watergate
-Effect on White House
-Progressive nature of demands
-Ervin Committee
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Goals of the President’s critics
-Haldeman’s meeting with the President, May 10
-Haldeman’s grand jury testimony
-Executive privilege
-John W. Dean, III
-Press reports, May 10
-Seymour Hersh
-Haig’s view
-Motives of adversaries
-Bureaucracy
-Butz
-Opposition to the President
-Rogers’s conversation with John A. Scali
-President’s style
Congressional relations
-Access to President
-Hugh Scott’s desire for the President’s visits
-President’s schedule
-Compared with other administrations
-Visits to White House
-Constancy
Press relations
-President’s schedule
-Press conference
Public relations
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-Weakness
-Garment
Personnel management
-Staff changes
-Appointments
-Buzhardt
-Terminations
-Staff changes
-Defense Department
-William P. Clements, Jr. and Richardson
Richardson
-Special Prosecutor
-Hearnes and Buzhardt
-President’s support
-Democrat, supporter of McGovern
Haig left at 12:45 pm.