Date: May 1, 1973
Time: Unknown between 7:15 pm and 7:19 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with William J. Baroody, Jr.
Baroody’s staff
-Morale
-Size
Watergate
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Conversation No. 433-56 (cont’d)
-Baroody’s conversation with Dick Howard
-Howard’s possible departure
-Involvement
-John D. Ehrlichman [?]
-Charges
-Charles W. Colson
-Operations to generate support
-Baroody’s conversation with Colson
-“Tough deal”
-President’s affection for Colson
-Baroody’s role
-Operation to generate support
-Colson
Need for spirit
-Baroody
-Colson
President’s speech
-Reaction
-Generation of support
-President’s opposition
-Telegrams
-Ethnics
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Statement
-Democrats
-Governors
-Ethnic newspapers
-Unknown person’s conversation with Baroody
-Chamber of Commerce [?] convention
-State dinner
-President’s televised address
The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 7:15 pm and
7:19 pm.
[Conversation No. 433-56A]
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Conversation No. 433-56 (cont’d)
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 45-116]
[End telephone conversation]
President’s speech
-Reaction
-Chamber of Commerce
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Janet Johnson
-William D. Ruckleshaus
-Carl T. Curtis
Special Prosecutor
-Senate resolution
-James L. Buckley
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Charles H. Percy
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Public opinion
-Sponsors
Baroody’s staff
-Powell Moore
-Connection with Baroody
-Chicago
-Richard B. Russell
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Watergate
-Grand Jury testimony
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Richard Kleindienst
-Baroody investigation
-Dismissal
-Discretion