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439–19
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander M. Haig
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
May 21, 1973
Conversation No. 439-19

Date: May 21, 1973
Time: 3:40 pm - 4:25 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper [Statements about Watergate investigation,
May 22, 1973]
-Release
-Bryce N. Harlow’s views
-Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford
-John C. Stennis and J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Henry M. Jackson
-Cover letter
-Meeting with Congressional leaders
-Carl B. Albert
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, Scott, Ford, Leslie
C. Arends, Robert P. Griffin and Thomas P.
O’Neill
-Contacts by Harlow and William E. Timmons
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Herbert G. Klein
-Cover letter
-President’s schedule
-Forthcoming conversation [with Congressional leaders]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)

Conversation 439-19 (cont’d)

-Forthcoming trip to Iceland
-Meeting with Cabinet
-[Memorial Day] message

Haig’s schedule
-Economics meeting

President’s schedule
-Forthcoming White Paper

Watergate
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Henry E. Petersen
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Phraseology
-Cover letter
-Ziegler’s answers to briefing questions
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-President’s knowledge
-President’s meeting with John W. Dean, III, March 21
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-Justice Department’s knowledge
-Dean’s allegations regarding Petersen
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

President’s schedule
-[Florida]
-Weather

Watergate
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper [statements about Watergate investigation,
May 22, 2973]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. August-2011)

Conversation 439-19 (cont’d)

-Forthcoming coversation
-Harlow’s view

Haig left at 3:59 pm.

-Phraseology and content
-Plumbers
-Dean
-Papers [?]
-Shepherd [?]
-Krogh
-President’s investigation
-National security
-Petersen
-Hunt
-Ellsberg investigation
-Kleindienst
-Hunt’s break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
-Ellsberg trial
-Evidence
-Kleindienst’s
recommendations
-President’s knowledge
-Buzhardt
-Dean’s possible allegations

Ziegler left at 4:25 pm.
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