432–1

Conversation No. 432-1

Date: April 27, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:22 am and 9:34 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and Manolo Sanchez.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.

Watergate
-Resignations of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Reactions of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Public relations [PR] aspect
-Ellsberg break-in
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Ziegler’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-National security arrangement
-Testimony before Ervin Committee
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Ehrlichman
-Resignations
-Opinions of Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s lawyers
-Increased chance of indictment
-Need for President to act
-Timing
-John W. Dean, III’s possible response
-Linkage of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Dean
-William Ruckelshaus
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Need for President to act

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.

Watergate
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Conversation No. 432-1 (cont’d)

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Timing of departures

-Effect
-Public opinion
-President’s visit to Meridien, Mississippi on April 27, 1973

Refreshments

Watergate

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Raymond K. Price’s memo

-Haldeman

-Timing of resignation


Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.

-White House Chief of Staff position
-Leonard Garment
-President’s requests of Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-President’s requests for full disclosure
-Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI] interviews
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Price’s style
-President’s reaction to break-in
-President’s desires for full disclosure
-President’s investigation
-Dean’s role
-White House staff changes
-Allegations
-President’s investigation, March 21, 1973
-Grand jury actions
-Departure of staff members
-President’s responsibility
-Grand jury actions
-Response of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Attorney General
-Chief of White House staff
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Conversation No. 432-1 (cont’d)

-Frederic V. Malek, David Parker, Stephen B. Bull, Ziegler
-Press
-Relationship with President
-President’s relations with press
-Impeachment, Dean
-Martin Z. Agronsky’s show
-Dean’s documentary evidence
-Charles W. Colson’s memoranda
-Use of President’s name
-Dean
-Actions
-March 21 meeting with President
-Report
-William O. Bittman
-Ziegler
-Apology
-Washington Post
-Seymour M. Hersh’s New York Times article
-President’s information
-Threats concerning President
-Ziegler’s possible statement to press
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Responsibility
-Concerns during Watergate period
-1972 People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip, Vietnam War
-Tone
-Price’s view
-Ziegler’s conversation with Price
-President’s knowledge of campaign activities

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.


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Refreshments
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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.

Watergate
-President’s statement
-“Canuck” letter
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s comments concerning Edmund S. Muskie
-Tailing
-Donald Segretti’s activities
-Counterattack

-Bombing

-Columnists

-President’s possible response to Clark R. Mollenhoff
-President’s visit to Meridien, Mississippi

-Audience

-John C. Stennis’s remarks

-Possible impeachment

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-World peace

-Responsibility of US presidents
-Mollenhoff
-President’s involvement
-President’s knowledge
-Ziegler’s knowledge of President’s involvement
-President’s August 19, 1972 press conference in California
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-Gerald L. Warren’s conversations with Dean
-Dean

-Involvement

-Payments for defendants

-John N. Mitchell

-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-March 21, 1973 conversation with President and Haldeman
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Conversation No. 432-1 (cont’d)

-Bittman
-Hunt’s testimony
-Ehrlichman
-Paul O’Brien
-President’s response
-Clemency
-Ellsberg break-in
-President’s response
-Invocation of national security
-President’s leadership
-New York Times, Washington Post stories
-President’s forthcoming speech, April 30, 1973

-Effect of news articles

-President’s response

-Haldeman
-Departures of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Effects on President
-Necessity
-Dean
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Press coverage of Mississippi trip, April 27, 1973
-Necessity for departure
-Stennis remarks
-Forthcoming meeting with President
-Ehrlichman
-Resignations
-Mitchell
-White House staff
-Benefit to the President of staff changes
-Ziegler, Henry A. Kissinger, William E. Timmons

-Possible resignations

-List from Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Exposure of White House staff

-President’s forthcoming speech
-Timing
-Price’s schedule
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-President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Price
-Rose Mary Woods
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Resignations
-Meeting with Ziegler
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:09 pm.

Refreshments

President’s schedule

-Helicopter


Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.

Watergate
-Dean
-White House response
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President
-Money for Hunt
-President’s reaction

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:22 p.m.

President’s schedule

-Camp David trip

-Material
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.

Dick Hillyer [?]

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.
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Instructions

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.

Watergate
-Chronology of containment efforts
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Resignations
-Ziegler’s conversation with Haldeman

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.

Food

Ziegler

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.

Watergate

-Public opinion

-Comparison to foreign policy

-Price’s view
-Garment’s view
-Opponents’ goal
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean
-President
-Staff changes
-Attorney General, FBI Director
-President’s upcoming speech

-Format

-Press relations

-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting with Price
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Content of speech
-Garment
-John F. Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs Speech
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Conversation No. 432-1 (cont’d)

-Responsibility
-Forthcoming press stories

-Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward

-David R. Gergen

-Attacks on President
-Hersh
-Clifton V. Daniel
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Public opinion

-Watergate’s impact

-Trust, respect in Presidency

-President’s forthcoming speech

-Conclusion

-Belief in Presidency

-President’s responsibility


Ronald L. Ziegler left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.