919–24

Conversation No. 919-24

Date: May 16, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:49 am and 12:34 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Weather

G. Bradford Cook

-Robert L. Vesco

-Resignation

-$48,000 for Hubert H. Humphrey

-John Loeb

-Indictment


David Marx

-Telephone call to Rose Mary Woods

-Uncle to Daniel Ellsberg’s wife [Patricia Marx]

-J. Edgar Hoover’s inaction
-Impact on White House investigation
-Affinity for Marx family
-Telephone call to Woods

-Television [TV]

-Meeting with Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.


President’s possible resignation

-Reason

-Partisanship


Watergate

-Effect on nation


Woods’s conversation with Marx
-Santa Ana Register
-George H. W. Bush and Republican National Committee [RNC]
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Watergate

-Calls for President’s resignation

-Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony J. Russo, Jr.

-National opinion
-Theft of national security information
-Appointment
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Service on Scranton Committee
-Patrick J. Buchanan [?]
-Russo’s work in Chicago
-Angela Y. Davis
-Chicago Seven
-Impeachment
-Congressional action

-Impeachment


Henry A. Kissinger

-Letter for President to sign

-Leonid I. Brezhnev and Nicolai Ceausescu


Presidency

-Difficulty

-State Dinner, May 15



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Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule

-Indiana


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Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule

-Popular reception



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Watergate
-Possible letters to editors

-President’s accomplishments

-McCarthyism

-Santa Ana Register story regarding the President’s San Clemente property
-Trust
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-Nixon Foundation
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s comment


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President’s schedule

-Tiredness

-State Dinner

-Preoccupations

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Watergate

-President’s response

-Peter J. Brennan’s telephone call to Woods

-White House response

-Helen A. Thomas

-President’s activities

-Woods’s schedule

-Social event at Iranian ambassador’s residence
-Amir-Alsan Afshar’s demeanor [?]
-Frank N. Ikard [?]
-Jean Ikard
-Edward W. Brooke
-Robert Gray
-Woods’s demeanor
-Support for President
-Haircut
-Style
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

Weather
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Cook

President’s supporters

Woods left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.