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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