Secret White House Tapes

046-105b

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046-105b
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • J. Fred. Buzhardt
May 17, 1973
Conversation No. 46-105

Date: May 17, 1973
Time: 4:58 pm - 5:16 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

President’s schedule

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower


Watergate

-Huston Plan

-Affidavits
-Noel Gayler
-[First name unknown] McManus’s files
-Memoranda
-Participants’ notes

-Louis W. Tordella [?]

-Unknown person

-[First name unknown] Brennan

-Memoranda regarding termination of plan
-William C. Sullivan
-Tordella
-Notes regarding telephone conversations with Sullivan
-[First name unknown] DuBois’s statement
-Donald V. Bennett’s message to [First name unknown] Stillman
-Buzhardt’s contact with Richard M. Helms
-Dates
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s note to Tom C. Huston
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Paper to the President
-Documentary evidence
-Brennan
-Sullivan

-Contact with Buzhardt

-Schedule

-Recollections

-Action taken
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Conversation No. 46-105 (cont’d)

-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-Possible actions
-Ervin Committee
-Ervin Committee’s possible actions
-Huston Plan

-White House response

-Activities prior to 1967

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Sullivan
-Huston Plan
-William D. Ruckelshaus’s, James R. Schlesinger’s awareness of Buzhardt’s
investigation

-Decision not to implement

-Description

-Approval

-John W. Dean, III’s paper

-Disapproval of plan

-Bureaucratic method

-Temper of the times

-Articles

-Cambodia

-Kent State

-Break-in of FBI

-Threats against Henry A. Kissinger and President

-Ronald L. Zeigler

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-White House response

-Ervin Committee
-Witnesses
-Impact on forthcoming trials
-Bobby G. Seale case
-John N. Mitchell, Haldeman, and John D. Ehrlichman
-Seale case
-Television [TV] coverage
-Joseph McCarthy and Joseph N. Welch
-Buzhardt’s schedule
-Huston Plan
-Implementation

-Hoover

- President’s signed approval
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