Date: May 15, 1973
Time: 9:59 am – 10:45 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown man and Henry E. Petersen.
Greetings
The unknown man left at an unknown time after 9:59 am.
Congressional relations
-President’s previous meeting with congressional leaders
-Delay
-Traffic
Watergate
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-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Compared with John W. Dean, III
-Petersen’s knowledge
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Special Prosecutor
-President’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-President’s conversation with Petersen and Richard G. Kleindienst, April 15,
1973
-Justice Department investigation
-White House cooperation
-Dean
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Special Prosecutor
-Harold R. Tyler, Jr.
-Relationship with Myles J. Ambrose
-Richardson’s plan
-Function
-Decisions to prosecute
-Grand Jury investigation
-Effect on the President and Petersen
-President’s appointments
-John N. Mitchell, Maurice H. Stans, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D.
Ehrlichman
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-President’s decisions
-President’s conversation with Richardson
-Petersen
-Petersen’s actions
-Possible alternatives
-Kleindienst
-Dean
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Telephone call from the President
-Hijacking incident
-Investigation
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters and Richard M. Helms
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-Kleindienst
-Number of interviews
-Gray
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
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Watergate
-President’s meeting with Petersen and Kleindienst, April 15, 1973
-Resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Material for W. Matthew Byrne
-President’s telephone call to Petersen from Camp David
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Break-in at Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
-Evidence
-President’s knowledge
-Justice Department investigation
-CIA
-Lawrence (“Larry”) Houston
-Cooperation
-President’s conversation with Walters
-Haig
-Dean
-Efforts regarding CIA and defendants
-Break-in at Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
-Justice Department’s investigation
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-CIA
-Camera
-Photographs
-Liddy
-Earl J. Silbert
-Dean’s statement to Petersen, April 15, 1973
-President’s conversation with Dean
-Timing
-Justice Department’s investigation
-Dean’s knowledge
-Byrne
-President’s conversation with Petersen, April 18, 1973
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Petersen’s subsequent conversation with Richardson
-Hunt’s White House activities
-National security
-Use of evidence
-Effect on Ellsberg case
-Byrne’s action
-FBI wiretaps
-Ellsberg
-Morton H. Halperin, staff member of National Security Council [NSC]
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Watergate
-National security
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-Ruckelshaus’s press release, May 14, 1973
-Ehrlichman
-President’s telephone call to Petersen
-Liddy’s lawyer, Peter L. Maroulis
-Break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
-Investigation
-Hunt
-Los Angeles
-Joseph P. Busch
-Justice Department
-Ervin Committee
-Hunt
-Liddy
-Testimony
-Ervin Committee
-Hunt
-Immunity for witnesses
-Immunity
-Byron White’s decision
-Murphy v. Waterfront
-Effect on possible prosecutions
-Dean
-Petersen’s possible book
-Petersen’s possible conversation with Richardson
-Petersen’s conversation with the President
-Hunt
-Petersen’s previous conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-President’s possible obstruction of justice
-President’s conversation at Camp David
-Leaks
-Hunt and Liddy
-Effect on NSC staff members
-Halperin
-Henry A. Kissinger
-FBI records
-William C. Sullivan
-Mitchell
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-J. Edgar Hoover’s possible use
-President’s knowledge
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
-Indictments
-Timing
-Testimony
-Perjury
-Personal gain
-Corroboration
-Documentation
-Motives
-Cover-up
-Threat of jail
-President’s conversation with Dean, March 21, 1973
-Money
-William O. Bittman
-Hunt
-Cubans
-Sentences
-Compared with Ervin Committee investigator
-John J. Sirica
-White House cooperation with Justice Department
-Buzhardt
-Ellsberg case
-Ellsberg case
-Judge’s opinion of government’s case
-FBI records
-Halperin
Presentation of gifts by the President
-Cuff links
Message to Mrs. Petersen
Watergate
-President’s cooperation
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-Ervin Committee
-Effect on defendants’ trials
-Mitchell
-Ability to stop hearings
-Petersen, Richardson, Special Prosecutor
-Samuel L. Dash
-Change of venue
-Ellsberg
Petersen left at 10:45 am.