Date: July 12, 1973
Time: 3:26 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
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-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s television [TV] statement
-Ervin’s telephone call to President
-Committee’s desire for access to files
-Edward J. Gurney’s telephone call to Melvin R. Laird
-Possible subpoena
-Daniel K. Inouye
-Gurney’s possible meeting with Inouye, Laird, and Bryce N. Harlow
-Laird’s view
-Views of Harlow, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., and Ronald L. Ziegler
-White House relations with Ervin Committee
-President’s possible meeting with Ervin
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:26 pm.
President’s schedule
-National Commission on Fire Prevention
-Cancellation
-Stephen B. Bull
-Rose Garden
-Press coverage
-Report
-Photograph
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.
Watergate
-Schedule of Gurney and Inouye
-President’s schedule
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-William Timmons
-Ervin’s TV statement
-Letter to President
-Baker
-President’s schedule
-Baker and Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Ervin
-Press statement
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-Schedules of Gurney and Inouye
-President’s schedule
-Ervin
-President’s previous conversation with Ervin
-Compared to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Chou En-lai
-Leaks
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Schedules of Gurney and Inouye
-Ervin Committee
-Possible subpoena
-Harry S. Truman’s rejection of subpoena
-White House actions
-Toughness
-Countering partisanship
-Ervin’s relationship with President
-Possible release on information by White House
-Buzhardt
-Archibald Cox
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Cox
-Elliot L. Richardson’s view
-Role of public opinion
-Possible investigation
-Buzhardt, Patrick J. Buchanan, and Ziegler
-Leonard Garment
-Intelligence, loyalty
-Ziegler, Harlow, Laird
-Access to files
-Ervin Committee
-Leaks
-Samual Dash
-Dean
-Buzhardt
-Papers of Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Haldeman’s safe
-Dean
-September 15, 1972 meeting with President and Haldeman
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-President’s schedule
President’s meeting with Senators, July 11, 1973
-Richardson
-Law, order, social justice
-Federal judges
-Toughness
Appointment of federal judges
-Garment’s role
-Haig’s telephone call to Jonathan Moore
-Richardson’s statement in U.S. News and World Report
-Requirements
-Ideology
-Religion, race
-Jews
Presidency
-Powers
-Liberals
Watergate
-Access to file
-Haldeman
-Ervin Committee
-Ervin’s conversation with President
-Exchange of letters
-Ervin’s TV appearance
-Ervin Committee
-Treatment of Dean and Mitchell
-Baker
-Timmons
-White House response
-Charles W. Colson
-Gurney
-Baker
-Timmons
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-President’s schedule
-Meeting with Ervin
-Questioning of Dean
-George H. W. Bush
-Barry M. Goldwater, Sr.
-Laird, Harlow
-Access to files
-Possible statement
-Indications of criminal activity
-Executive privilege
-Dean
-Executive privilege
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Political material
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Committee for the Re-election of the President [CRP]
-Buzhardt’s view
-Gordon C. Strachan’s files
-Cox
-Ervin Committee
-Partisanship, irresponsibility
-Leaks
-Cox
-Buzhardt’s view
-Possible removal
-Ervin Committee
-TV
-Ervin’s TV statement
-President’s schedule
-Subpoena
-Access to files
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-Ervin Committee’s possible attack on President
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Ervin
-Recording conversation [White House tapes?]
-Notification
-President’s conversation with Ervin
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-Committee’s goals
-Baker, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Ervin’s statements
-Goldwater
-Forthcoming conversation with Harlow
-President’s schedule
-Possible ambassadorial appointment
-Mexico
-Baker
-Timmons
-Haig’s meeting with Ziegler, Harlow, Garment, Buzhardt, and Laird
-White House response
-Garment
-President’s schedule
-Ervin
-Walter Scheel
-Access to files
-Buzhardt’s study of precedents
-Precedents
-Teapot Dome
-Compared to previous crises
-Cambodia, May 8, December 18 [December bombing]
-Compromise
-President’s schedule
-Baker
-Dash
-Timmons
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:26 pm.
Timmons
-Meeting with President
Haig and the unknown man left at 4:00 pm.
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