Date: May 24, 1973
Time: 12:01 pm – 12:22 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Camp David
Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Today Show appearance, May 24
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s conversation with Barbara Walters
-President’s possible resignation
Watergate
-President’s possible resignation
-Press questions
William L. Safire
-Career
-Essays
-Column, May 24
-Morale
President’s morale
-Effect on popular opinion
Watergate
-Seymour M. Hersh’s story
-New York Times
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Temper of the times, 1969-70
-Student demonstrations
-Algerian action
-FBI
-Ziegler’s press briefings
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-National security aspects of Watergate
-Funds for defendants
-Clemency
-Ervin Committee hearings
-James W. McCord, Jr.’s testimony
-Gerald Alch’s testimony
-White House response
-President’s possible press conference
-Timing
-Leonard Garment’s view
-President’s veracity
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Departures from White House staff
-Timing
-Spiro T. Agnew
-White House response
-White Paper
-Effect
-National security
-President’s knowledge
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Comments regarding Charles De Gaulle, May 24
-Response to student riots in France
-Conversation with Ziegler, May 24
-Role in White House response
-Mood
-Feelings toward Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Knowledge
-Plumbers
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Grand Jury
-Special prosecutors
-White House response
-Expectations of the President’s supporters
-Archibald Cox
-Ervin Committee
-John W. Dean, III
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-Conversations with the President
-Content
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Clemency
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Perjury
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Allegations concerning the President
-Popular opinion
-De Gaulle analogy
-White House response
-Compared to Cambodia crisis
-Press reaction
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak’s columns
-Press response
-Forthcoming Time cover
-President’s possible impeachment
-Agnew
White House staff
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Return to staff
Watergate
-President’s schedule
-Meetings
-Press
-Congress
-Politicians
-White House staff reaction
-Tone
-Climate
-Press
-Congress
-Compared with Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s reaction
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-Active role
-Compared to passive role
-Fear
-President’s role
-Time
-Broader picture
-President’s schedule
-Meeting with Congress members, May 23
-Cabinet
-Frequency of meetings
-Response of Congress members, Cabinet
-White House reaction
-President’s possible press conference
-Format
-Structure
-Self-interest
-President’s supporters
-Time
Ziegler left at 12:22 pm.