Date: July 12, 1973

Time: 4:48 pm – 5:09 pm

Location: Oval Office

Rose Mary Woods met with an unknown person.

President’s location

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:09 pm.

The President entered at an unknown time after 4:48 pm.

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Henry A. Kissinger’s location

Gifts

-Watch

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Kissinger entered at 4:50 pm.

Gifts

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) (Ryan) Nixon

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Identity of gift giver

Items

-Box

-Manolo Sanchez

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Woods left at an unknown time before 5:09 pm.

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Watergate

-Kissinger’s conversation with Norman Mailer, July 12, 1973

-Life magazine

-Lunch

-John N. Mitchell’s Ervin Committee testimony

-Popular opinion of President

-Access to files

-Ervin Committee

-Richard A. Moore’s Ervin Committee testimony

-President’s knowledge

-Questioning

-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]

-March 20, 1972 meeting with President

-President’s knowledge

-Subsequent meeting with John W. Dean, III

-President’s knowledge

-Dean

-Conversations with President

-White House staff involvement

-Mitchell, John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Kissinger’s conversation with Mailer, July 12, 1973

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President’s schedule

-President’s health

-Viral pneumonia

-Medical test

-Sleeplessness

-Public knowledge

-Rest

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Watergate

-Kissinger’s conversation with Mailer July 12, 1973

-President

-Compared to [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson

-Kissinger’s discussions with President

-Youth

-Article

Year of Europe

-President’s previous meeting with Walter Scheel

-Konrad Adenauer

-France

-Security, economy, political consultation

-Germany, Great Britain’s support

-Belgium

-Kissinger’s consultations

-The Netherlands

-Support

-Italy

-Enthusiasm

-Effect

-Meetings

-Brussels, Paris

-Effect on Watergate

-Congressional relations

Watergate

-President’s conversation with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.

-Ervin’s goal

-Ervin’s letter regarding access to files

-Compared to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

-Tone

-Access to files

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-Samuel Dash’s review

-Leaks

-President’s schedule

-Ervin

-Howard H. Baker, Jr.

-Ervin Committee’s witness schedule

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-Access to files

-Ervin’s leaks

-Press relations

-Access to files

-Possible compromise

-Melvin R. Laird, Bryce N. Harlow

-Crisis compared to Cambodia, Vietnam War

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-President’s conversation with Ervin

-Baker

-Questioning of Dean and Mitchell

-Access to White House, President

-Mitchell’s Ervin Committee testimony

-Compared to Dean, Jeb Stuart Magruder

-President’s knowledge

-Testimony of Mitchell, Moore, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Charles W.

Colson

-Gordon C. Strachan’s possible testimony

-Haldeman

-Kissinger’s assessment

-Relevancy

-Prevalence

-President’s knowledge

-Firing of Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-President’s accomplishments

-Contrasted with President’s opponents

-Treason

-Theft of Pentagon Papers

-Riots

-Cut-off of funds for war

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-Kissinger’s travels for Vietnam negotiations

-White House response

-Possible speech by President

US foreign relations

-Year of Europe

-Germany’s role

-Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands

-France’s support

-President’s meetings with Leonid I. Brezhnev

-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War

-Scheel’s viewpoint

State Dinners

-Invitations

-Ambassadors

-Elegance

-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

-Iran

-Ambassadors

-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, George R. S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]

-Desirability

-Iran

-Cromer

-Availability

-[Unintelligible name]

-Great Britain’s displeasure

-Age

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President’s health

-Kissinger’s knowledge

-X-ray

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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-President’s telephone call

-Viral pneumonia

-Recovery

-President’s schedule

-Rest

-Public relations [PR]

-Compared to press relations

-President’s schedule

-Scheel

-Commission on Fire Prevention

-PR

-Ronald L. Ziegler’s announcement

-President’s schedule

-Meetings

-Location

-Announcments

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Kissinger left at 5:09 pm.