Date: May 16, 1973
Time: 4:55 pm – 5:22 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
President’s meeting with George P. Shultz
President’s schedule
-Sequoia
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
Watergate
-Huston Plan
-Implementation
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:55 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:57 pm.
Watergate
-Huston Plan
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-Possible release
-National Security Administration [NSA]
-Tom C. Huston
-Conversation between Buzhardt and Haig
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-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Plan
-Implementation
-Relationships
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Watergate break-in
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INTELLIGENCE
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Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Huston Plan
Buzhardt entered at 4:57 pm.
Watergate
-President’s conversation with Haig
-Implementation of plan
-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Files
-Dean’s role in domestic intelligence
-Robert C. Mardian
-Activities with Dean
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Tape Subject Log
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-Memoranda
-John N. Mitchell
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Plan
-President’s meeting with Richard M. Helms, Adm. Noel Gayler, and
Hoover
-Buzhardt’s conversations
-NSA
-Samuel C. Phillips
-Louis W. Tordella
-Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA]
-Vincent P. DePoix
-Mardian and James R. Schlesinger
-Huston’s conversation with Buzhardt
-Departure from staff
-Hoover
-Plan
-Implementation
-Dean and Mardian
-Intelligence activities
-Break-in of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
-Mardian
-Search of files
-Break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
-Krogh and plumbers
-Connection with Huston Plan
-White House response to Huston Plan revelations
-Huston Plan
-Dean
-Role in other activities
-Break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
-Krogh
-Possible legal penalties
-Huston Plan
-Security classification
-Possible leaks
-Implementation
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-Huston
-NSA
-Possible White House response
-[William] Stuart Symington’s intervention with Ervin Committee
-Sensitivity of document
-Compared with plumbers
-NSA, Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], Federal Bureau of Investigation
[FBI], Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA], and Internal Revenue Service
[IRS]
-Purpose
-May Day demonstrations
-1970 and 1971
-Buzhardt’s actions
-Mardian
-Tordella
-Schlesinger
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming call to William C. Sullivan
President’s schedule
Buzhardt left at 5:13 pm.
Watergate
-Huston Plan
-Dean
-Activities
-Suborning perjury
-Jeb S[tuart] Magruder
-Funds for defendants
-Motives
-Removal of documents
-Huston Plan
-Possible national reaction
-Possible allegations
-Implementation
-President’s announcement regarding military activities
-Possible press coverage
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-Implementation
-Dean
Congressional relations
-Bill on confirmation
-President’s veto
-William E. Timmons
-Shultz’s view
-Roy L. Ash’s view
-Views on sustaining possible veto
-Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott, and Frank Burton
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:13 pm.
Request for meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm.
Haig’s mood
Haig left at 5:22 pm.