39–37

Conversation No. 39-37

Date: June 3, 1973
Time: 6:07 pm - 6:36 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s forthcoming meeting with Hugh Scott

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Press relations

-Leaks to columnists

-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson

-John W. Dean, III

-Credibility
-Spiro T. Agnew’s possible speech

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Dean story, June 3
-President’s previous meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ziegler’s contacts with Haldeman
-Dean
-Statements concerning meetings with President
-Meetings with and calls from President
-Number and timing
-Subjects discussed
-Press conference
-President’s call on Easter
-Nature of remarks
-Ziegler
-Content
-Contacts with President
-Personal nature
-Attorney-client relationship
-Meeting, April 16
-Immunity
-President’s conversations with Henry E. Petersen
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 39-37 (cont’d)

-Meetings with President

-President’s orders

-Cover-up activities

-March 21
-William O. Bittman’s demand
-Haldeman
-President’s reaction
-Possible clemency
-Ziegler’s and Buzhardt’s knowledge
-Haldeman’s findings
-Dean
-Statement

-Taping of telephone calls

-White House sources

-Richard A. Moore and Leonard Garment
-Likelihood
-Files

-Copying

-Access

-Haldeman’s statements
-Ziegler’s possible telephone call to Buzhardt
-Copying
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s access
-Statements

-Effect

-Popular opinion

-Credibility
-Haldeman’s and John D. Ehrlichman’s forthcoming testimony
-White House response
-Ziegler’s meeting, June 3

-Wilson’s column

-Scott

-Possible content of leaks to press

-Files

-Access

-Copying

-Contents

-Chronologies, memoranda of conversations [memcons]
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 39-37 (cont’d)

-Access
-Contents
-President’s meetings
-Compared with Ehrlichman, Haldeman and John N.
Mitchell
-Access

-Tenure

-Haig

-Statement

-Timing

-Ervin Committee

-White House response
-President’s meeting with Haldeman
-Meeting between President, Dean, and Haldeman, March
21

-Meetings with President

-April 16

-National security

-Number
-Attorney-client relationship
-Garment
-Telephone calls from President

-Immunity

-President’s motives

-Meetings with President

-President’s orders

-Possible testimony

-Meeting with President, March 21

-President’s reaction

-Justice Department

-Role
-Ehrlichman’s investigation
-Conversation with Petersen
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming testimony
-Haldeman’s recap
-Reaction to White House staff members
-Buzhardt and Garment
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 39-37 (cont’d)

-Loyalty to President

-Haig, Ziegler

-John J. Wilson

-Anti-Semitism

-White House treatment compared with Dean’s

-Access to papers

-Buzhardt, Garment

-Access to papers
-Procedures
-Possible effect of release
-Compared with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of
conversation [memcons]
-White House response
-Leaks to columnists
-Press briefings
-Ziegler’s previous conversation with Haig

-Gerald L. Warren

-Ziegler’s schedule

-Personnel appointments, Vietnam

-Ziegler’s role

-Herbert G. Klein announcement

-Changes in Ziegler’s role

-Haig’s opinon

-Melvin R. Laird, Warren

-Klein announcement

-Communications Office, Office of Press Secretary
-Ziegler’s role
-Laird announcement
-Haig’s assessment
-Dean
-Statements

-Motive

-Content

-White House response

-Chronologies
-Bipartisan Congressional leadership [?]
-Bryce N. Harlow and Laird
-White House response
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Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 39-37 (cont’d)

-Ziegler, Haig, Garment, and Buzhardt