918–6

Conversation No. 918-6

Date: May 15, 1973
Time: 8:10 am - 8:35 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate
-News story regarding allegations regarding President’s San Clemente property
-Washington Post and New York Times
-Associated Press
-Nixon Foundation
-Leonard Garment and Frank DeMarco, Jr.
-DeMarco’s forthcoming statement
-Ervin Committee
-National play
-Possible effect of Ziegler’s forthcoming statement
-President’s meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. May 14
-White House handling
-Ziegler and Garment
-Ziegler’s forthcoming briefing
-White House staff
-Ziegler, Haig, Patrick J. Buchanan and George P. Shultz
-Demeanor
-News leads, May 15
-William D. Ruckelshaus and Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files
-Los Angeles Grand Jury
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-East European view
-Conspiracy against the President
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Conversation No. 918-6 (cont’d)

-Popular opinion in United States

-Joseph C. Kraft

-President’s suggestions for Special Prosecutor

-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown and Warren E. Hearnes

-White House strategy

-Timing of possible press conference

-US-Soviet Union summit


President’s schedule
-Meeting with Vera Clemente [widow of Roberto Clemente], May 14
-Press coverage
-Bipartisan Congressional leadership meeting
-Substantive meetings
-Quadriad
-Press coverage of the President’s meeting with congressmen, May 15
-Campaign reform
-Norfolk, Virginia event
-George H. Mahon and Edward W. Brooke
-William E. Timmons

Watergate
-John W. Dean III
-Documents
-Justice Department
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Activities
-Plumbers
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.’s role
-Dean’s knowledge
-Dean
-Documents
-Possible content
-Security classification
-Possible content
-President’s possible statement
-President’s schedule
-Haile Selassie
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Conversation No. 918-6 (cont’d)

-Timing of activities

-Meeting with Clemente

-Congressmen

-Substantive meetings

-Economy
-Cabinet
-Quadriad
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Congressional leaders
-Haig’s mood

-President’s health

-Concerns
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman’s possible roles on Nixon Foundation
-Executive privilege
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., Haig

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:10 am.

Stephen B. Bull’s schedule

-Delay

-Traffic


The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:35 am.

Watergate

-President’s attention

-Press coverage


Spiro T. Agnew
-Memorandum [memo] to Arthur F. Burns

-Reaction to removal from Domestic Council

-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.

-President’s reaction

-Ziegler’s assessment


Haig

-Role on White House staff

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Conversation No. 918-6 (cont’d)

-Ehrlichman

White House organization
-White House Communications Agency [WHCA] staff
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Structure and size
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-William E. Timmons’s staff

-New employees

-John E. Nidecker

-Departmental move

-Retention


Bull’s location

Watergate

-White House strategy

-Effect on White House staff

-Popular confidence in the President

-President’s knowledge

-Ervin Committee witnesses
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Dean
-Other events

-Skylab launch

-Dean

-Documents

-Possible contents

-Evidence


President’s schedule
-Bipartisan Congressional leadership meeting
-Bull
-Message

Ziegler left at 8:35 am.
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