447-022b

Conversation No. 447-22

Date: June 19, 1973
Time: 2:00 pm - 2:59 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
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Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)

Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Sequoia
-Timing
-Possible demonstrations
-Jews [?]
-Afternoon meeting
-Mount Vernon
-Helicopter to Camp David
-Return to White House, June 22, 1973
-Leak by Viktor Louis [?]
-Friday [June 22, 1973] announcement
-Henry A. Kissinger’s concern
-Photograph opportunity, June 22, 1973
-George P. Shultz
-Camp David
-San Clemente
-Reception, June 23, 1973

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 2:00 pm.

Unknown matter

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:31 pm.

Brezhnev visit

-Signing ceremony

-Photograph opportunity

-Economic meeting
-Sequoia
-Shultz, Nikolai S. Patolichev
-Press relations

-Secret Service

-Photographs

-Camp David

-Importance

-Sequoia
-Economic meeting
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Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)

-Shultz

-Camp David

-Photograph

-Shultz

-Economic agreement briefing

-Press relations

-Questions to Brezhnev

-Stephen B. Bull

-“Badgering”

-Women reporters

-Handshaking

-Soviet media

-Ziegler’s possible action


Press relations
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Helen Thomas’s stories
-Washington Post
-Possible apology

-Comments about President

-Telephone calls to Betty Beall and Thomas

-Thomas

-Ziegler

-Future interactions with President

-Martha Mitchell

-[First name unknown] Fischer


Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Schedule

Brezhnev visit
-Communique
-Timing

John A. Love
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Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)

-Announcement of White House staff position

-Energy

-Dean’s testimony


Watergate
-Dean
-Handling of funds

-Press coverage

-$4,000, $14,000

-Safety deposit box
-J. Fred Buzhardt

-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony

-Prosecutors

-Evidence

-Testimony

-Ziegler’s conversations with Richard A. Moore [?]

-Evidence against Dean [?]

-Leaks [?]
-Ervin Committee

-Howard H. Baker, Jr.

-Edward J. Gurney

-Buzhardt’s view

-White House response

-Buzhardt, Leonard Garment, Charles A. Wright

-Press relations

-White House staff

-Popular opinion

-Archibald Cox

-Ziegler’s conversation with Buzhardt, Garment and Wright, June 19, 1973
-Possible defense by a Senator
-White House response
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Prosecutors
-White House response

-Garment’s telephone calls to Senators

-Buzhardt

-Timing

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Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)

-Cox
-Summit, President’s accomplishments
-Effect on White House staff
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Conversation with Ziegler, June 18, 1973
-Phil Donahue interview
-White House response
-Timing
-Dean
-California
-Press relations
-Intelligence
-Camp David [?]
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-White House response
-Strategy
-Senators’ possible response
-White House response
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s view
-White House staff and press

-Past statements

-Ziegler’s beliefs

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Staff statements

The President met with an unknown man.

Russian vodka

-Sequoia

-Camp David

-Soviet rooms

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:31 pm.

Watergate

-Dean

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Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)

-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Timing

The President talked with Haig at an unknown time between 2:00 pm and 2:31 pm.

[Conversation No. 447-22A]

[Begin telephone conversation]

President’s schedule

-Melvin R. Laird


Patrick J. Buchanan

Brezhnev’s schedule
-Mt. Vernon
-President’s conversation with an unknown person
-Helicopter
-Driving

President’s schedule

-Laird


[End telephone conversation]

Brezhnev’s schedule

-Camp David

-Driving

-Thurmont

-Mt. Vernon


Watergate

-Dean

-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony

-White House response


Kissinger talked with the President between 2:31 pm and 2:36 pm.
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Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)


[Conversation No. 447-22B]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 41-16]

[End telephone conversation]

Brezhnev visit

-Sequoia

-Ziegler’s schedule

-Forthcoming briefings

-Leonid Zamyatin

-Sequoia

-Zamyatin
-Dinner
-Ambassadorial rank
-Telegrafnoye Agentstvo Sovetskovo Soyuza [Telegraph Agency
of the Soviet Union] [TASS]
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-John B. Connally
-Forthcoming conversation with Ziegler
-Potential Soviet clients
-Air travel to San Clemente
-Private dinner
-Media relations
-Speculation
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger and Haig
-Helicopter
-Photograph opportunities
-Camp David

-Zamyatin

-San Clemente

-Agreement signing

-Camp David

-Stairs
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Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)

-Golf course

-President and Brezhnev

-Walking

-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

-Soviet photographers


Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings

-Press relations

-Dean’s forthcoming testimony

-Gurney [?]

-White House response


Brezhnev visit
-Rogers’s view
-View

Watergate
-Hearings

-Dean

-Ziegler’s belief

-White House response

-Timing

-Press conference


Brezhnev visit
-President’s possible report to nation

-Kissinger’s view

-Communique

-Departing statement by President and Brezhnev

-Preparation

-Delivery


Watergate
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Ziegler’s belief
-Prosecutors
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Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)

-Immunity

-Charges


Brezhnev’s schedule

-Sequoia

-Camp David

-Travel by automobile

The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 2:00 pm and 2:31 pm.

[Conversation No. 447-22C]

[Begin telephone conversation]

Brezhnev’s schedule

-Camp David

-Travel by automobile

-Sequoia

-Sequoia

-Soviet sensitivities


[End telephone conversation]

Brezhnev’s schedule

-Camp David

-Travel by automobile

-Sequoia

-Kissinger’s view

-Mt. Vernon

-George Washington’s home

-Sequoia


Brezhnev

-Strategic abilities

-Political skill

-Relations with people

-Comparison to Irish ward politician
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Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)

-Receiving line

-Jews [?]

-Undersecretaries

-Bravery

-Bodyguard and translator [?]


Treaty signing

-Ziegler’s conversation with Zamyatin

-Prisoners of War [POWs] room

-Media relations

-Size of press corps

Brezhnev visit
-Communique
-Ziegler’s conversation with Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-Press relations
-Relations between President and Brezhnev
-Kissinger [?]
-Text of speech
-Sonnenfeldt
-Media relations
-Cooperation
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Sequoia
-Ziegler and Zamyatin
-Camp David
-Camp David
-Economic meeting

Ziegler left at 2:59 pm.
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