445-006b

Conversation No. 445-6

Date: June 13, 1973
Time: 11:45 am - 1:29 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

Press relations

-Vietnam agreement

-Paris

-President’s speech on nation’s economy


Watergate

-Popular opinion

-Maurice H. Stans

-Ervin Committee
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Attack on President
-Agreement
-John W. Dean, III

-Cross-examination

-Opening statement

-Duration
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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:45 am.

Delivery

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:29 p.m.

Buzhardt’s schedule

Watergate
-Dean
-Credibility
-Contacts with L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III and Henry E. Petersen
-White House response
-Forthcoming trial
-Transactional immunity
-Archibald Cox
-Possible evidence against President
-Possible evidence
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Samuel Dash
-Documents
-Tapes of Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s investigation
-Statements concerning Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Mary McGrory interview
-Forthcoming cross-examination
-Buzhardt’s preparation
-Chronology
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-President’s meetings with Dean
-Dates

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:45 am.

President’s briefcase

-Oval Office

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:29 pm.

Watergate

-President’s notes, Haldeman conversations

-Dean

-Contacts with Ehrlichman
-President’s instructions concerning investigation
-Contacts with President
-February 27, 1973
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-John N. Mitchell
-Minority counsel for Ervin Committee
-Kleindienst
-Testimony
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Kenneth Keating
-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Mitchell, Ehrlichman
-President’s recollection
-Dean
-February 27, 1973 meeting with President
-President’s knowledge
-Ervin Committee
-Hiss case
-Leaks
-Wiretaps
-Henry Brandon
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Leaks
-William H. Sullivan
-Records
-President’s notes
-FBI
-Sullivan
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-Records
-Gray
-Effect of possible investigation
-A Navy yeoman [Radford]
-Executive privilege
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Executive privilege
-Kleindienst
-Ervin Committee
-Break-in
-February 28, 1973 meeting with President
-Ervin Committee hearings
-White House staff involvement
-Gray
-Testimony
-Charles W. Colson
-Dean
-Cover-up
-Ervin
-Dash
-John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy
-Bugging
-Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy
-1968
-FBI
-Sullivan


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Watergate

-President’s recollection

-February 28, 1973 meeting with President

-Bugging
-1968 bugging
-Sentencing of burglars
-Federal Judges
-Sullivan
-Burglars
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Wife
-Possible clemency
-Donald H. Segretti
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-San Clemente
-Samuel Dash [?]
-Witness
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Howard H. Baker’s possible handling
-March 1, 1973 meeting with President
-President’s forthcoming press conference
-Gray
-Testimony
-Availability of raw files
-Bella S. Abzug
-Possible report
-Daniel L. Schorr
-Bugging
-1968 campaign plane
-Cartha D. DeLoach
-Effect on FBI of possible revelations
-Dean’s investigation
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-Gray’s investigation
-Hiss case
-March 6, 1973 meeting with President
-Gray
-Kleindienst
-Statement on executive privilege
-Sullivan
-March 7, 1973 meeting with President
-Gray
-1968 bugging

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:45 am.

Matches

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:29 pm.

Watergate

-Dean

-March 7, 1973 meeting with President
-Gray
-FBI leaks
-Lie-detector tests
-Dean’s contacts with Gray
-Jerry V. Wilson
-Civil suit
-March 8, 1973 meeting with President
-Forthcoming press conference
-Duration
-Henry A. Kissinger’s presence
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Gray
-March 10, 1973 telephone conversation with President
-March 13, 1973 meeting with President and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Forthcoming press conference
-Colson
-Future role with administration
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-Kenneth S. Rietz
-Attacks on President
-Mitchell [?]
-Briefing Book for press conference
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Haldeman
-Release of Dean report
-Sullivan


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Watergate

-Dean

-March 13, 1973 meeting with President and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-FBI
-Dean’s possible response to Ervin Committee
-Gray, Jerry Wilson
-Nomination
-Compared to Kleindienst [?]
-Chapen [?]
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Kalmbach
-Ronald Ziegler’s statement
-President’s legal work

-Frank DeMarco, Jr., President

-Kalmbach

-New York firm

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-John H. Alexander

-Kalmbach

-Ziegler

-New York firm, Kalmbach’s firm

-White House

-New York firm

-Donation of President’s papers

-Dean
-March 13, 1973 meeting with President and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Subornation of perjury
-President’s deniability
-Sentences of burglars
-Judge John J. Sirica
-Ervin Committee

-Targets of investigation

-Haldeman

-Chapin

-Gordon Strachan

-Knowledge

-Haldeman’s problem

-Colson’s relationship with Hunt

-Mitchell

-Knowledge
-Release of truth
-Ehrlichman
-White House staff knowledge of burglary of Democratic National
Committee [DNC]

-Strachan

-[Transcripts]

-Sullivan

-Chappaquiddick

-Possible testimony

-Kalmbach
-Bugging

-Sullivan [?]

-National security

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-March 14, 1973 meeting with President and Richard A. Moore

-President’s dictating habits

-President’s forthcoming press conference

-March 15, 1973 meeting with President and Moore

-President’s previous press conference

-Hiss case

-March 16, 1973 meeting with President

-FBI files

-Possible release

-Dean report

-President’s possible suspicions

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-March 16, 1973 meeting with President

-Need for truth

-Mitchell, Magruder

-Release of truth

-Dash

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-Visit to Camp David by Dean and Moore

-Mitchell

-Ziegler

-1968 bugging

-Kleindienst’s view

-Mitchell, Colson, Haldeman

-Magruder

-Possible testimony
-White House staff knowledge of burglary of DNC
-Strachan
-Magruder
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Haldeman’s knowledge
-Magruder
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible White House staff testimony
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean
-Magruder, Sloan
-Possible testimony
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-Haldeman’s involvement
-Ehrlichman
-Break-in of Daniel Ellsberg’s doctor’s office
-Dean’s assertion
-Liddy
-Strachan
-Conversation with Dean concerning White House staff
knowledge of DNC burglary
-Break-in of Ellsberg’s doctor’s office

-President’s reaction

-Picture of Liddy

-March 20, 1973 meeting with President and Moore

-President’s notes

-Written interrogatories

-William O. Bittman

-Counteroffensive

-Mitchell

-Grand jury

-Lyndon B. Johnson

-Robert L. Vesco

-Murray Chotiner, George Smathers

-Edward J. Gurney’s press conference

-White House response

-Ziegler

-Segretti

-Debriefing by Dean

-Moore’s response

-Need for statement

-Phone conversations with President
-March 20, 1973 meeting with President and Moore

-Prisoners of War [POWs]

-Kleindienst

-Sentencing of burglars

-Moore

-Statement

-Grand jury

-White House staff involvement

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-Strachan
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President and Haldeman

-“Cancer on the Presidency”

-Funds for defendants

-Haldeman

-Ehrlichman

-Kalmbach

-William O. Bittman

-Haldeman’s entrance

-$120,000

-$1,000,000

-Haldeman’s recollections

-Funds for defendants

-Washing money

-Cuban committee

-Clemency offer

-Funds for defendants

-Washing money
-Cuban committee

-Clemency offer

-Funds for defendants

-Hunt

-Haldeman

-President’s response

-Dean’s forthcoming meeting with Haldeman,
Ehrlichman and Mitchell
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman
-Content
-Dean’s previous meeting with Mitchell, Magruder [?], Ehrlichman
and Haldeman

-Mitchell’s knowledge

-Mitchell

-Conversations with President

-William P. Rogers

-President’s conversations, March 1973

-Kleindienst, Petersen

-President’s subsequent conversations with Dean,

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Ehrlichman, Haldeman

-Dean

-Conversations with Prosecutors
-Magruder
-Break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
-Immunity
-Buzhardt’s conversation with Peterson
-Ellsberg break-in

-Petersen’s possible knowledge

-Photograph

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Dr. Lewis Fielding’s office
-Hunt’s story
-Liddy

-Release of information

-Petersen

-Petersen

-Contacts with President

-Robert E. Cushman, Jr.

-Prior relationship with Hunt

-CIA

-Hunt

-Mitchell

-March 22, 1973 conversation with President, Ehrlichman,
Haldeman
-Records
-Bittman
-President’s conversations with Dean after James W. McCord, Jr.’s
March 23, 1973 statement
-Hunt
-Ellsberg case
-Hunt

-Dirty tricks

-Plumbers

-President’s conversations with Ehrlichman
-$1,000,000
-Dean’s possible statements
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-Possible White House response
-President’s conversation with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s meeting with Dean and Mitchell
-Content
-Bittman

-Possible immunity

-Conversation with Colson concerning clemency

-Colson’s conversations with President
-Hunt’s wife’s death
-Gerald Alch’s testimony

-Effect on Bittman

-Money and clemency for burglars

-Clemency

-Colson, Bittman

-Ehrlichman

-Dean’s instructions to John Caulfield

-Hunt, McCord

-President’s conversations with Ehrlichman

-Dean

-April 1973 conversations with President

-Bittman

-Payments [?]

-Legal liability

-Intent of fund-raisers

-April 16, 1973 meeting with President

-Resignation

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-Petersen

-Conversations with President

-Resignations of Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean

-Dean

-Conversations with President

-Petersen

-Dean’s meetings

-Liddy, Haldeman
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Magruder
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-Ehrlichman’s instructions to Kalmbach
-Haldeman and $350,000
-March 21, 1973
-Haldeman
-Break-ins
-Dean’s involvement
-Clemency offer, subornation of perjury
-Funds for defendants
-Bittman
-President’s call from Florida
-Bittman
-March 21, 1973
-Thomas A. Pappas and Mitchell
-Martha Mitchell
-Haldeman’s knowledge
-President’s methodology
-President’s response
-Ehrlichman

-Turning over of notes

-Moore [?]

-Cox
-Requests

-Documents

-Petersen and executive privilege

-Kleindienst
-Tape of President’s conversation with Dean
-Peterson’s review
-Misunderstanding
-President’s dictation
-Inventory of files

-Kleindienst, Petersen

-Documents

-President’s appointment logs

-Documents

-Specificity

-President’s tapes

-Ehrlichman, Colson

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-Telephone conversations

-Locations

-Cox

-Requests

-Ehrlichman’s tapes

-Notes

-Ehrlichman’s tapes

-Content

-Possible confrontation

-Timing

-Dean’s Ervin Committee testimony

-Dash

-Possible requests

-Cox

-Knowledge of case

-Possible indictments

-Dean

-Magruder

-Dean

-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony

-Goal

-Statement

-Cross-examination

-Goal

-Content
-Conversations with President and Ehrlichman, Haldeman,
or Moore
-Possible perjury
-Possible effect
-Possible statements concerning Bittman

-Mitchell’s role in fund-raising

-Buzhardt’s speculation

-Possible fund-raising

-Maurice H. Stans

-Pappas

-Mitchell

-Frederick LaRue

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-Funds for defendants
-Fred Fielding’s testimony
-Possible immunity
-Cox
-Sirica
-Cox
-Effect
-Dean’s lawyers
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Relationship with Mitchell
-Gray
-Peterson
-Results of DNC burglary
-Conversations with Ehrlichman
-Strachan, Haldeman
-Dean
-Strategy
-Immunity
-Lawyer’s motions in court, June 12, 1973
-Sirica’s response
-May 22, 1973 letter from prosecutors
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Goal
-Offers to prosecutors
-Dr. Fielding break-in, lockbox
-President’s knowledge of coverage
-Phone conversations with President
-President’s records
-Haldeman’s phone records

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