421–22

Conversation No. 421-22

Date: March 28, 1973
Time: 8:45 am-9:00 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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Meeting with John N. Mitchell
-Mitchell’s arrival
-Questions for Mitchell
-Jeb Stuart Magruder

Watergate
-Grand jury
-Charles W. Colson
-Charges
-Obstruction of justice
-Perjury
-Colson
-John W. Dean, III
-Preparation of Magruder
-Mitchell
-Charges against
-Grand jury
-John G. Tower, Norris Cotton
-Washington Post story
-Jules Witcover
-Republican activists
-Interest in Watergate
-Oliver Quayle, Albert E. Sindlinger
-Media coverage
-Networks
-Lead stories
-Washington Post editorial
-Criticism of Samuel Dash
-Ervin hearings
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Executive session
-White House cooperation
-Tower, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Informal testimony
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William E. Timmons
-President’s concerns
-Executive privilege
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
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-Declassification of documents


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[PROCESSING NOTE: WITHDRAWAL NO. 1 HAS BEEN DECLASSIFIED IN FULL]

-Bay of Pigs
-Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
-Kissinger
-Vietnam War

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-Ervin Committee
-Weicker
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Agreement with White House
-Charges of non-cooperation
-Haldeman’s meeting with Mitchell
-Haldeman’s role
-Public relations reaction
-John D. Ehrlichman’s abilities
-Wounded Kneed incident
-Strategy
-Colson, Timmons
-Resolution of issue
-Haldeman’s role
-Congress
-Intensity of hostility
-Charges of cover-up
-White House staff statements for investigations
-A record of proceedings
-Kissinger’s meeting
-Need for control
-A Dean report
-Issuance
-Value
-Haldeman’s opinion
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Conversation No. 421-22 (cont’d)


-Dean’s credibility

Haldeman left at 9:00 am.