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Conversation No. 894-7

Date: April 12, 1973
Time: 12:29 pm - 1:06 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
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Meeting with Oscar Berger

-Photographs

-Location


Berger entered at 12:29 pm.

Greetings

-Germany

-Moscow


Berger’s book

-Presidential cartoons

-Lyndon B. Johnson


Photographs

-Previous President’s


Drawings of the Presidents

-John F. Kennedy

-Johnson


Berger’s work

-Quality of the work

-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin [?]


Berger’s career

-Presidential compliments


Gifts

-Presentation

-Presidential cufflinks


Berger left at 12:36 pm.

Watergate
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman, April 12, 1973
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-White House staff’s sworn affidavits concerning Watergate

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:36 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:06 pm.

Watergate

-Ziegler’s conversation with Ehrlichman

-Sworn statements

-Impact on press and Senate

-Calls for other affidavits

-President’s role

-Dwight Chapin

-Special prosecutor

-Statement by President

-John N. Mitchell
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Possible statement
-Possible future revelations
-Barry M. Goldwater, Anne L. Armstrong
-Responsibility of White House staff
-Options

-Possible statement by President

-Solutions to problem

-Washington
-National
-Aim of White House policy
-Public perceptions
-Haldeman

-Charles W. Colson

-Lie detector test

-Reaction in Congress

-Haldeman’s possible statement

-Donald H. Segretti story

-Gordon C. Strachan

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-Dwight L. Chapin

-Segretti’s identification with Watergate

-White House actions
-Past
-Suggestions
-Separation of Segretti from Watergate
-John W. Dean, III’s activities
-Reaction
-Report to President
-Mishandling of Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files
-Contact with Committee for the Re-election of the President
[CRP]
-Involvement with funds for burglars
-Result of exposure
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman knowledge
-Statement about Dean’s activities
-Haldeman

-CRP officials’ beliefs

-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s possible testimony

-Restrictions on witnesses before Ervin Committee
-Release of statements
-President’s role
-Demand for truth
-Resignation as counsel

-Pre-emption by complete statements

-Haldeman

-John N. Mitchell

-Statement

-Chances of survival

-Segretti

-Mitchell
-Responsibilities
-CRP intelligence operation
-Knowledge
-Magruder’s responsibility
-Magruder
-Knowledge
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-Pressures

-Perception

-Testimony

-White House counterattack

-Mitchell

-Haldeman

-Colson

-Dean’s knowledge

-Mitchell
-Effects of possible White House actions
-Dean
-Possible resignation
-Haldeman
-Reports to staff
-Strachan
-Statement
-Ramifications
-Ervin Committee
-Partisans make-up
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Aims

-Haldeman

-Mitchell

-White House action
-Reasons
-Results
-Special prosecutor
-William P. Rogers

-Ehrlichman

-Impact of Committee report

-Complete statements

-Dean

-President’s role in investigation

-Dean

-Complete statements

-Haldeman

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Ziegler left at 1:06 pm.