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Conversation No. 433-73

Date: May 8, 1973
Time: 6:59 pm - 7:37 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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The President met with Manolo Sanchez.


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Refreshment

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Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered and Sanchez left at 6:59 pm.

White House staffing
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Donald E. Santarelli
-Busing
-Edward L. Morgan
-Qualities
-Morgan
-Conversation with Haig
-Santarelli
-Buzhardt
-Haig’s role
-William P. Rogers

Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Aims
-Documents
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, and President
-Buzhardt
-John B. Connally

Dean
-Henry A. Kissinger and yeoman [Charles E. Radford]
-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
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Press relations
-Time magazine
-Attack on President
-Watergate

-Opposition to President

-President’s accomplishments

-1972 election
-Vietnam War
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

President’s role in White House
-Leonard Garment
-Cable to Kissinger
-Dean’s testimony before Senate
-Haldeman’s role
-Executive role
-Priorities
-“Big plays”

-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War

-SALT

-Wage and price controls

-Buzhardt
-Garment

-Personality

-Intelligence

-Buzhardt’s role


Watergate
-Buzhardt’s role
-Defense Department

-Agnew

-Connally

-Buzhardt

-Toughness
-William P. Clements

-Loyalty

-Transportation Department

-San Antonio
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Watergate
-Dean
-Documents

-Judge’s possible ruling

-Access

-Haig’s call to Elliot L. Richardson, May 4

-Garment’s letter

Richardson
-Confirmation
-Special Prosecutor

National mood
-Watergate

Watergate
-Dean
-White House counterattack

-Agnew

-Connally

-President

-J. Strom Thurmond

-Congress

-Richardson

-Haig’s conversation with Haldeman

-Haldeman’s preparation for testimony

-Lawrence M. Higby
-Haig

-Perjury

-Lying

-Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-President’s role

-Dean

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Failure to inform President

-Intent of funds for defendants

-White House counterattack

-Agnew

-Connally

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-Forthcoming briefing by Haig

-President’s briefing


President’s actions in 1972
-Time

-Watergate

-Opposition to administration

-National influence


Kissinger
-Meeting with Haig

Taping system
-Knowledge of existence
-Haldeman

-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

-Extent

-Executive Office Building [EOB] office

-Oval Office

-Camp David

-Possible use in Watergate investigation

-Haig’s possible informing of Kissinger

-Telephone conversations

-Johnson

-President’s lack of knowledge

-Haldeman

-Transcription

-Haig’s possible informing of Kissinger

-Effect

-Kissinger’s statements


Kissinger
-Patriotism
-Expertise
-Compared to Rogers

-Rogers’s view of the world


White House staffing
-Haig’s schedule
-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose, Buzhardt, and Santarelli
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-Santarelli

-Qualities

-Morgan

-Compared to David N. Parker


Watergate
-White House response

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-Agnew, Connally, and Senators

-President’s role in White House

-Haig


Dean

-Documents

-Past legal career

-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

-Ehrlichman


Radford

-Haig’s suspicions

-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]

-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer

Watergate

-Executive privilege

-National security
-Bureaucratic espionage
-Leaks
-Time
-Moorer

-Impeachment

-President’s papers

-Access
-Garment


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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[Duration: 22 s ]


JAPAN, CHINA


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-Draft response

-Buzhardt and Connally

-Dean

-Documents

-Possible immunity

-Described


Haig left at 7:37 pm.