Date: June 6, 1973
Time: 11:44 am – 12:53 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Charles A. Wright, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., and
Manolo Sanchez.
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Greetings
-Guests
-Buzhardt’s policy paper
Refreshments
-Coffee
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:38 pm.
Watergate
-Subpoena
-Edward J. Gurney
-Samuel Dash
-Possible subpoena
-Statement concerning White House cooperation
-Possible subpoena
– President’s meetings with John W. Dean, III
-Reporters’ comments on statement
-Archibald Cox
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Effect on forthcoming trials
-John N. Mitchell, Dean, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D.
Ehrlichman
-Cox
-Compared to other cases’ publicity
-Sam Shepard
-Billy Sol Estes
-Bobby G. Seale
-Cox
-Forthcoming meeting with Wright and Buzhardt
-President’s papers
-Contents
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman conversations
-Dean
-Papers, memcons [memoranda of conversations]
-Contents
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-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Compared to Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memcons
-Ehrlichman’s deposition
-Press coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-President’s knowledge
-Jeb Stuart Magruder and Gordon S. Strachan
-President’s role
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Funds for defendants
-Ehrlichman’s and Dean’s roles
-President’s knowledge
-Haldeman’s role
-President’s papers
-Contents
-Conversation with Dean
-Ronald Ziegler
-Courts
-David L. Bazelon
-Supreme Court Justices
-Thurgood Marshall
-Brown [first name unknown]
-Philadelphia lawyer
-Jewell S. LaFontant
-Ehrlichman [?]
-Senate confirmation
-Senators
-Executive privilege
-Access permission and terms
-Dean
-Contacts with President
-1972
-Executive privilege meeting, February 27, 1973
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and Haig
-Richard A. Moore
-Louis Patrick Gray
-Ervin Committee appearances
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-Dean report
-Donald H. Segretti
-Cover-up
-Release of information
-Fred Thompson
-Relations with Buzhardt
– Edward J. Gurney
-Forthcoming meeting with Buzhardt
-Possible cross-examination of Dean
-Dash
-Preparation
-Dean
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President
-Cancer on the Presidency
-Subornation of perjury
-Clemency offer
-Dean’s role
-William O. Bittman’s blackmail
-Conduct
-Thompson’s forthcoming questioning
-Contacts with Haldeman, Ehrlichman and President
-Contacts with President
-Content
-Dates
-Strachan
-Cover-up
-Executive privilege, Gray-testimony
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-Haldeman television appearance
-Dean
-Report
-Letter to Ervin Committee, March 20, 1973
-Moore
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony
-Gray
-Cover-up
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President
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-President’s assumptions about role
-Letter, March 20, 1973
-Purpose
-Content
-Payoffs to defendants
-Ervin Committee
-Segretti
-Investigation with Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
and Justice Department
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President
-Out of context quotes
-$1,000,000
-Discussion
-Funds for defendants
-Haldeman
-Motives of participants
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Increases
-Obstruction of Justice
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Mitchell
-Timing of Burglars’ trials and sentencing-James McCord’s letter
-Cox
-Forthcoming meeting with Buzhardt
-Role
-Access
-Call from Buzhardt
-Leak
-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Earl Silbert’s subpoena
-Forthcoming meeting with Buzhardt
-Dean
-Meetings with President
-Moore
-February 27, 1973
-Moore’s, Haldeman’s, Ehrlichman’s testimony
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-President’s press conference
-Cox’s purpose
-President’s role in case
-Dean meetings
-Immunity for Dean
-Purpose
-White House response
-Letter to Ervin Committee, June 5, 1973
-Possible delay
-President’s role
-Jurisdictional guidelines
-Elliot Richardson
-Immunity for Dean
-Dean
-Possible testimony before Ervin Committee
-Immunity
-Effect
-Cross-examination
-Immunity
-Television coverage
-Importance
-Expectations
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming conversation with Thompson
-Timing
-Knowledge of wiretaps
-Cross-examination
-January 1972
-Mitchell
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-President’s knowledge
-Conversations
-Haldeman
-Clark MacGregor
-Haldeman
-Cross-examination
-President’s knowledge
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-Gray’s documents
-Ehrlichman
-Dean’s assessment
-Fred Fielding’s role
-Dean’s knowledge
-Subornation of perjury
-Mitchell and Magruder
-President’s knowledge
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Thompson
-President’s knowledge
-Funds for defendants
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Clemency offer
-Ehrlichman’s alleged meeting with President
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President
-Problems
-Subornation of perjury, clemency offer
-Funds for defendants
-President’s role
-Haldeman
-President’s role
-$1,000,000
-Cover-up
-Payoffs
-Mitchell’s role
-Bittman
-Receipt of $120,000
-Possible testimony
-Dean’s story concerning threats from E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Work for Ehrlichman
-President’s meeting with Mitchell, Ehrlichman, and Haldeman, March 22, 1973
-Full disclosure
-Dean’s trip to Camp David
-Dean
-Possible testimony concerning meetings with President
-Cross-examination
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-Credibility
-Conversations with President
-Easter phone call
-$1,000,000
-Ziegler’s presence
-$1,000,000
-March 21, 1973
-President’s motives
-Full disclosure
-Mitchell meeting with President,
March 22, 1973
-Possible White House attack on credibility
-Timing
-Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward
-Reporters’ concerns
-Cross-examination
-Media
-February 27, 1973 meeting with President
-Moore’s testimony
-Moore
-Knowledge
-Dean’s comments
-March 20, 1973 call from Dean
-Dean’s forthcoming meeting with President
-Democrats, Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Possible knowledge
-Views concerning Dean’s informing President
-A phone call from Dean, March 20, 1973
-Dean
-Contacts with President
-March 21, 1973 meeting, March 22, 1973 calls
-President’s meeting with Mitchell, March 22, 1973
-Phone calls
-Florida
-Camp David
-April 15, 1973
-Conversation with Henry Petersen
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-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Resignation
-Timing
-Petersen
-Petersen
Melvin Laird entered at an unknown time after 11:44 am.
Laird’s schedule
Media reaction
Laird left at an unknown time before 12:37 pm.
Watergate
-Petersen
-Knowledge
-Meeting with President after Cox’s appointment
-Possible suspicions
-Praise by Dean and Mitchell
-Reason
-Views concerning Mitchell
-Mitchell
-Dean’s views
-Dean
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman or Mitchell supervision
-Possible cross-examination
-President’s role
-President’s orders concerning report
-March 21, 1973
-Camp David trip
-March 20, 1973
-Contacts with President
-Content
-Possible White House counterattack
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Statements
-President’s response to White House staff involvement
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-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell
-Dean’s motives
Buzhardt and Wright left at 12:37 pm.
An unknown man entered at 12:37 pm.
Laird
-Press conference
-Location
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:38 pm.
Watergate
-White House response
-Charles W. Colson
-Dean
Laird entered at 12:38 pm.
Laird’s press conference
-Watergate questions
-Various subjects
-White House staff reorganization
-Health issues
-National economy
-Recommendations
-Laird’s abilities
-President’s press conferences
-Schedule
Laird’s schedule
-Press conferences
-Relationship with media
Laird left at 12:40 pm.
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Watergate
-Dean
-Press handling
-Washington Post, New York Times
-Press handling
-Walters’s memcons
-Huston plan
-Wiretaps
-Dean’s statements concerning President’s knowledge
-Dean
-Statements concerning conversations with President
-White House response
-Joseph Alsop’s column, June 6, 1973
-Possible statements concerning conversations with President
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Effect
-White House response
-Buzhardt
-June 4, 1973 press stories
-Dean
-Haig’s conversation with Buzhardt
-Fear of jail
-Motive
-President, Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Ervin Committee and lawyers’ goal
-President’s culpability
-White House response
-Strategy
-Laird
-Role on White House staff
-William E. Timmons’s view of Congressional response to
appointment
-Bryce N. Harlow’s role on White House staff
-Dean
-Files
-Possible recordings of telephone calls
-Files
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-News summary from President
-Acquisition, contents
-Work habits
-Possible immunity
-Files
-Dean’s conversation with Buzhardt, June 2, 1973
-Lawyers
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible duration
-Maurice H. Stans’s possible testimony
-President’s conversation with William P. Rogers, June 5, 1973
-Mitchell’s possible testimony
-Robert Vesco case indictment
-Dean’s possible testimony
-Effect of immunity
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible testimony
-Colson
-President
-Laird’s joining White House staff
National economy
-Haig’s forthcoming conversations
-Simon
-Dunlop
-Connally
-Possible 60-day freeze
-Cabinet meeting
-Economic package
Haig left at 12:53 pm.
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