Date: May 11, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:03 pm and 12:43 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown man.
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s location
Haig entered and the unknown man left at 12:07 pm.
President’s previous conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Secretary of State position
-Compared with George P. Shultz as Secretary of Treasury
Watergate
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Recall by Dr. James R. Schlesinger from Far East trip
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] involvement
-John W. Dean, III
-Meeting with Haig
-Memoranda of conversations [Memcons]
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Dean
-Schlesinger’s orders
-Haig’s subsequent meeting with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Haig’s orders regarding memcons
-National security
-Memcons
-Dean’s actions
-CIA cover
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-Defendants
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s actions
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
-CIA
-Mexico
-Money
-Meeting with Gray
-CIA involvement
-Gray’s meeting with the President, July, 1972
-Ehrlichman
-Meetings with Dean
-President’s orders to Gray
The President talked with Pierre E. Trudeau between 12:11 pm and 12:13 pm.
[Conversation No. 916-16A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 46-2]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Walters
-Memcons
-Dean’s efforts regarding defendants
-CIA
-Compared to Ehrlichman
-President’s conversation with Gray
-Walters
-Memcons
-Effects
-Dean, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and the President
-Buzhardt
-Possible release
-Haig’s telephone call to Schlesinger
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-Haig’s orders to Buzhardt
-Lawyers for Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible conversation with Henry E. Petersen
-Possible testimony
-President’s knowledge
-Wiretaps
-Daniel Ellsberg trial
-Records
-W. Matthew Byrne’s request
-Location
-FBI’s forthcoming interview of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Executive privilege
-Possible release of conversation between Ellsberg and Morton Halperin
-Kissinger
-National security
-Buzhardt
-William D. Ruckelshaus’s desire to talk with Haig
-W. Mark Felt’s leaks from FBI
-Joseph C. Kraft and Henry Brandon
-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Mitchell
-Reasons for wiretaps
-Discharge of Felt
-Discharge of Felt
-CIA
-Dean
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Walters’s possible testimony
-Meetings with Dean
-President
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Walters
-Memcons
-Possible testimony
-National security
-Wiretaps
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-Conversation between Halperin and Ellsberg
-Kissinger’s view
-Buzhardt
-Haig’s access
-Buzhardt
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Conversation between Halperin and Ellsberg
-Possible release
-Ruckelshaus
-Kissinger
-Byrne
-Timing
-Halperin’s tenure with National Security Council [NSC]
-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement
-Walters
-Possible testimony
-Petersen
-Ellsberg case
-Memcons
-Schlesinger’s knowledge
-CIA knowledge
-Gray’s testimony, May 10
-Possible testimony
-Effects
-Conversation with Haig
-Conversations with the President
-Meetings
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman, July 1972
-Suggestions concerning Gray
-Ehrlichman’s possible motive
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Memcons
-Possible copies
-Dean
-Location
-CIA techniques
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National security]
[Duration: 10 s ]
LATIN AMERICA
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Watergate
-Walters
-Motives of Haldeman and Ehrlichman for meetings
-Ehrlichman
-Possible conversation with Haig
-Buzhardt’s view
-President’s possible conversations
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Buzhardt’s attempts to contact lawyers for Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-FBI’s forthcoming contacts with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Memcons
-Wiretaps
-Wiretaps
-Release of conversation between Halperin and Ellsberg
-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement
-Haig’s contacts with Lawrence M. Higby
-Higby as conduit to Haldeman
-President’s possible conversation with Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Possible testimony regarding the President
-Possible conversation with the President
-Possible testimony regarding the President
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-Executive privilege
-Possible motive
-Hunt
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Buzhardt
-Walters
-Memcons
-Possible testimony
-Walters
-Possible testimony
-Gray’s testimony
-Ehrlichman’s and Haldeman’s testimony
-Ehrlichman’s culpability
-Ehrlichman’s possible testimony
-Walters’s possible testimony
-Meeting with Gray
-Ehrlichman’s possible testimony
-Meeting with Walters
-Hunt
-Walters’s possible testimony
-President’s role
-Dean’s actions
-President’s involvement
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Public perception
-Location
-Higby and Stephen B. Bull
-Wiretap tapes
-Wiretap tapes
-Haldeman
-Haig and Buzhardt
Haig left at 12:43 pm.
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