Date: May 23, 1973

Time: 10:20 am – 10:53 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

President’s Republican Congressional leadership meeting

Watergate

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-White House response

-White Paper [Statements about Watergate Investigation, May 22, 1973]

-National security

Vietnam peace settlement negotiation

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Report, May 22

-President’s knowledge

-Negotiations with South Vietnam

-Saigon

-William Sullivan

-Note from President

-Forthcoming communique

-Timing

-Kissinger’s statement

-North Vietnam’s statement

-South Vietnam

-Negotiations

-President’s opinion

-US aid to South Vietnam

Bryce N. Harlow

-Role on White House staff

-Conversation with the President, May 21

-Counselor to President

-William E. Timmons’s role

-Congressional relations

-George H. W. Bush

-Haig’s role

-Politics

-Bush

-Barry M. Goldwater

-Spiro T. Agnew

-Announcement

-Problem

-Stock option

-Timing

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-Conversation with President

-Announcement

-Part-time

-July

Watergate

-Congressional reaction

-Carl T. Curtis

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Testimony, May 22

-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield and James W. McCord, Jr.

-McCord

-Testimony

-James R. Schlesinger

-Ervin Committee hearings

-White House response

-White Paper [Statements about Watergate investigation, May 22, 1973]

-Possible allegations regarding the President

-John W. Dean III

-David R. Young

-Memoranda of conversation [memcons]

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Charles W.

Colson

-White House response

-White Paper

-Effect

-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memcons

-Dean

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-William L. Safire’s opinion

-Call to Haig, May 22

-Possible press conference

-President’s possible testimony before Ervin Committee

-President’s conversation with Harlow, May 22

-Bush

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President’s schedule

-Forthcoming economic meeting

-Oil

-George P. Shultz

-Proposal for Haig

-Testimony

Energy

-Program planning

-Shultz

-Cabinet members

-Roy L. Ash

-Review by Haig

-Peter M. Flanigan

-Role

-Confidence by Haig

-Concerns

President’s schedule

-Economic meeting

-Prisoners of war [POWs]

-Briefing

-Evening at White House

-Cabinet meeting

-Length

-Economic meeting

-Timing

-Recommendations

White House staff

-Harlow’s role

-Flanigan’s role

Hugh Scott’s note to President

-State Department

-[David] Kenneth Rush

-Haig’s possible meeting with William P. Rogers

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-Kissinger

Kissinger

-Possible statements

-Summit

-Georges J. R. Pompidou

-National security

-White House response

-White Paper

-Defense

Soviet summit

-Postponement

-President’s opponents

-New York Times

-Leonid I. Brezhnev

Watergate

-Effect on people

-Harlow’s view

-Compared to Cambodia

-White House response

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s role

-Leonard Garment’s role

-Cover-up

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

-Funds for defendants

-Funds for defendants

-President’s knowledge

-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s knowledge

-Cover-up

-Dean’s conversation with the President, March 21

-President’s response

-Dean’s role

-John N. Mitchell

-Dean’s conversation with the President, March 21

-Content

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-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy’s conversation with Dean, June

19, 1972

-CIA

-Clemency

-Dean’s role

-Dean’s conversation with the President, March 21

-White House response

-White Paper

-Effect

-Walters’s memcons

-Possible release

-Huston Plan

-Ziegler’s conversation with President

-Recommendations

-Richard M. Helms, J. Edgar Hoover, Adm. Noel Gayler, and

Donald Bennett

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Confirmation

-Hugh Scott’s efforts

-Daniel Ellsberg and John V. Tunney

-Ellsberg wiretap

-Scott

-White House response

-White Paper

-Future allegations

-Ziegler

-Memcons

-President’s schedule

-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Colson

-Future allegations

-Dean

-President’s schedule

-White House response

-White Paper

-Dean

-Possible allegations

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-Memcons of meetings with President

-Conversation with President, March 21

-Blackmail

-Administration’s response

-Helms’s testimony

-Schlesinger

-William D. Ruckelshaus

-W. Mark Felt

-Termination

-Notice

-Confidence

-Source of heat

-Comparison to Dean

-Wiretaps

-White House response

-White Paper

-Content and phraseology

-Plumbers

-President’s orders

-President’s responsibility

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Krogh

Haig left at 10:53 am.