436–14

Conversation No. 436-14

Date: May 14, 1973
Time: 5:20 pm - 5:42 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Lawrence M. Higby.

Watergate

-Ervin Committee

-Allegations against President

-San Clemente property

-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

-President’s financial situation

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Conversation with Higby

-Grand jury testimony



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Watergate
-Higby’s possible grand jury testimony

-Executive privilege

-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]

-Haldeman’s grand jury testimony
-Higby’s knowledge
-Possible consultation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-John W. Dean, III
-President, Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Newsweek story
-Documents
-Possible contents
-E. Howard Hunt’s activities
-Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson’s relationship with Dean
-Allegations regarding President’s San Clemente property
-Legal relationship to President

Dean

-Knowledge of trust

-Nixon Foundation

-Financial arrangements
-Purchase of President’s San Clemente property

President’s San Clemente property

-Financial arrangements

-Public story

-Blind trust
-Robert H. Abplanalp and Rebozo
-Cost
-Adjacent property
-President’s membership
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-Motives
-Nixon Foundation compared to blind trust
-Abplanalp and Rebozo
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Nixon Foundation


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President’s San Clemente property

-Allegations

-Dean as possible source

-[Santa Ana Register]

-Laguna, San Clemente

Watergate

-Allegations regarding campaign funds

-Senate committee

-Ziegler

-Press coverage

-Ziegler’s conversations

-Frank DeMarco, Jr.
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-Herbert W. Kalmbach

-Higby’s meetings with Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-President’s letter to J. Edgar Hoover regarding Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Krogh’s role
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Indictments
-John N. Mitchell
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Allegations regarding President’s San Clemente property
-Source

-Ervin Committee

-Laguna Beach, California

-Dean
-Dean
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and President
-Conversation with Higby
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-President

-Timing

-Haldeman

-Statements

-Report

-Phone conversation with Higby

-Conversations

-Lawyers

-United States attorney

-White House response
-Strategy and visibility

-Norfolk, Virginia

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-President’s schedule

-Haile Selassie

-Iceland

-Buzhardt’s role
-Ziegler
-Haldeman
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-Opponents

-Ehrlichman

-Conversation with Higby

-Dean’s documents

-Possible contents


Higby left at 5:42 pm.