447–11

Conversation No. 447-11

Date: June 18, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:31 pm and 5:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s location

Buzhardt entered at 5:15 pm.

Sanchez’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Leonid I. Brezhnev’s visit

-President’s forthcoming toast, June 18, 1973

-Rose Mary Woods


Sanchez and Buzhardt left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.

Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings

-Timing

-White House response

-John Dean

-$4,000


Marjorie P. Acker entered at 5:16 pm.

Brezhnev’s visit

-President’s forthcoming toast

-Typing

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Conversation No. 447-11 (cont’d)

-Woods

Acker left at 5:20 pm.

Watergate
-Dean

-Money

-Motives compared with other participants

-Handling of funds

-Buzhardt’s conversation with Fred D. Thompson
-$4,000
-Possible subpoena of financial records
-Ervin Committee
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Motives
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Timing
-Leonard Garment
-Buzhardt’s conversations with Samuel Dash and Thompson
-Daniel K. Inouye’s conversation with John J. Rhodes
-Maury Leibman’s [?] call to Garment
-Buzhardt’s conversation with Thompson
-Doug Parker
-White House response to possible allegations
-Charles W. Colson
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Henry E. Petersen
-William O. Bittman’s alleged blackmail
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Charles A. Wright
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, Hugh Scott
-Buzhardt’s conversation with Thompson
-Timing
-Meeting with Dean, June 16, 1973 in executive session
-Baker, Thompson
-Buzhardt’s questions for Thompson
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Conversation No. 447-11 (cont’d)

-Dean
-Postponement

-Thompson

-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.

-Purpose
-Handling of funds
-Bryce N. Harlow’s characterization
-Amount
-Lifestyle
-Financial situation
-Buzhardt’s son’s investigation
-Alexandria, Virginia

-Dean’s father

-Divorce

-Alimony

-Testimony

-Haldeman’s $350,000

-Colson’s $22,000
-Disposition
-W. Richard Howard
-Maurice Stans’s testimony

-$22,000

-$350,000

-Howard’s statement

-William J. Baroody’s advertising firm

-Amount

-Gordon C. Strachan

-$22,000

-Stans

-Strachan

-$4,000
-Money for defendants
-Bittman
-Possible questioning
-Affect
-Possible release of information
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming conversation with Thompson and Dash
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Conversation No. 447-11 (cont’d)

-Press relations
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Timing

-Thompson’s view of Ervin

-Dash, Thompson

-Thompson’s view

-Conversations with Buzhardt statement

-Possible leak

-William P. Clements

-Roman L. Hruska

-Leaks

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s role in tap on Lawrence F.
O’Brien, Jr.’s phone
-Colson’s role
-Colson’s forthcoming press conference, June 19, 1973

-Colson’s television appearance, June 18, 1973

-White House response

-Handling of funds

-Colson

-David Shapiro

-White House response

-Ronald L. Ziegler’s view

-Handling of funds

-Possible press response

-Baker’s possible response

-Buzhardt’s work

-Forthcoming conversation with Dash
-Forthcoming statement
-Possible procurement
-Location of copies
-Hruska’s request
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee executive session
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.’s statement
-Meetings with President
-Richard A. Moore’s possible testimony
-Testimony concerning Moore
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Conversation No. 447-11 (cont’d)

-Petersen
-John N. Mitchell
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray’s statement, June 18, 1973
-Contacts with President
-Relationship with Moore

President’s schedule

Buzhardt left at 5:45 pm.