45–164

Conversation No. 45-164

Date: May 8, 1973
Time: 10:38 pm - 10:52 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler

Watergate

-Administration’s counterattack

-Ziegler’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Appearance of guilt by staff members

-Spiro T. Agnew

-William Proxmire’s statement

-Mood of American people

-Timing of President’s activities after March 21, 1973

-John W. Dean, III

-Papers
-Lawyer’s comment concerning possibility of prison

-Haig

-J. Fred Buzhardt

-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose

-Timing of administration counterattack

-Dean

-Cover-up

-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.

-Conversations

-President

-Paul L. O’Brien

-William O. Bittman

-Presidential authority
-Clemency

-President’s March 21, 1973 conversation with Dean

-Proxmire’s statement

-White House counterattack

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Conversation No. 45-164 (cont’d)

-Timing

-Agnew

-John B. Connally

-John G. Tower

-Ziegler, President

-Dean’s attacks on President

-Innuendos concerning Presidency
-Cabinet members

-Claude S. Brinegar

-George P. Shultz

-Brinegar

-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

-President’s forthcoming meeting

-Krogh

-White House counterattack

-Media

-Dean

-Congress

-Proxmire

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Leaks from White House

-Timing