920-013a

Conversation No. 920-13

Date: May 16, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:45 pm and 9:33 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

John B. Connally

-Meeting with Haig


Watergate

-White House reaction


J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s [?] location

President’s legal counsel

-Leonard Garment

-Sensitivity

-Buzhardt

-Garment’s reaction

-Garment

-Ability


Watergate
-Executive privilege

-Buzhardt’s view

-Charles W. Colson’s view

-White House response

-President’s opponents

-Goal

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. August-2011)

Conversation No. 920-13 (cont’d)

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Henry A.
Kissinger, Haig and Ronald L. Ziegler
-President
-Wiretaps

-President’s role

-J. Edgar Hoover’s role

-Morton A. Halperin
-Kissinger’s role
-President’s role
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Purpose and implementation
-Kissinger
-Conversation with Haig, May 15
-Possible response
-President’s attention

Buzhardt entered at an unknown time after 8:45 pm.

Watergate

-Huston Plan

-Documentation
-Memorandum from Haldeman to Tom C. Huston
-Action memoranda
-Huston’s phone calls
-Haldeman’s memorandum
-Termination
-William C. Sullivan
-Louis W. Tordella
-Haldeman
-Huston’s conversation with Sullivan
-Sullivan’s role
-Sullivan’s reaction
-Clyde A. Tolson’s conversation with Hoover
-Hoover’s subsequent conversations
-John N. Mitchell and President
-President’s role
-Sullivan’s notes
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Conversation No. 920-13 (cont’d)

-Timing
-Sullivan
-Role
-Possible testimony
-Reaction
-Domestic intelligence


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Watergate
-Domestic intelligence

-Noel Gayler

-Hoover

-Huston Plan

-Approval

-Termination

-Tordella’s notes

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray

-Visit to National Security Agency [NSA]
-Discussion with Tordella
-Tolson and Hoover
-Study
-Implementation
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)

Conversation No. 920-13 (cont’d)

-Dean’s documents

-Possible White House response

-Implementation

-Approval

-President and H. R. Haldeman

-Buzhardt’s conversation with Haldeman

-Previous plan

-1967
-Compared to Huston Plan
-White House strategy
-Possible leak by Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Buzhardt
-Bernie Welles

-Conversation with Buzhardt

-Coordinating committee

-Possible leak by Ervin

-National security

-Timing

-Termination

-Possible testimony

-Tordella

-Implementation

-Possible evidence

-James R. Schlesinger

-Dean’s knowledge

-Possible White House response

-Hoover, Mitchell

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-Ervin

-Possible leak from White House

-Possible White House response

-Timing

-Content

-Witnesses

-Tordella

-Sullivan

-Gray

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Conversation No. 920-13 (cont’d)

-Carter
-Gayler
-Donald V. Bennett

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:45 pm.

Schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:33 pm.

Watergate

-Huston Plan

-Possible White House response
-Buchanan
-Gayler and Bennett
-Location
-Possible statements
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Huston Plan

-Huston’s memory

-Sullivan’s calls

-Termination
-Process
-Possible White House response
-Pre-Nixon administration activities
-Executive privilege

-Court cases on scope

-Credibility

-Ervin’s possible action
-Possible court action
-Grand Jury
-Ehrlichman’s testimony
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation
[memcons]
-Ehrlichman’s tapes
-Call to Richard G. Kleindienst, March 1973
-President
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Conversation No. 920-13 (cont’d)

-Possible court order
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Helms, Walters and Haldeman
-Ehrlichman’s notes
-Purpose
-Walters’s memcons
-Possible sanitization for national security
-Justice Department handling of Daniel Ellsberg’s case
-Possible portrayal
-Executive privilege
-Beliefs regarding the President, Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Walters’s documents and Ehrlichman’s tape with Kleindienst
-John J. Sirica’s possible action
-John J. Wilson’s opinion
-Dean
-Use immunity
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible effects of television [TV]

-Dean’s opinion

-Forthcoming trials

-Possible effects

-President

-Others

-Indictments

-Henry E. Petersen’s view
-Possible indictments
-Evidence

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Charles W. Colson

-John N. Mitchell and Jeb S[tuart] Magruder

-Dean

-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.

-Walters’s memcons
-Possible implications
-Dean’s documents
-Ervin’s possible actions
-Possible White House response
-Domestic intelligence activities
-Implementation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


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(rev. August-2011)

Conversation No. 920-13 (cont’d)

-Unknown judge
-Intelligence committee
-Huston Plan
-Termination
-Bennett
-Gayler
-Possible testimony

Buzhardt left at an unknown time before 9:33 pm.

-Executive privilege

-Walters’s memcons


The President and Haig left at an unknown time before 9:33 pm.