436–9

Conversation No. 436-9

Date: May 14, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:10 pm and 3:51 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Watergate

-William D. Ruckelshaus’s statement

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Conversation No. 436-9 (cont’d)

-Judge John W. Dean, III’s documents
-John J. Sirica’s actions
-Lawrence M. Higby
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Conversations
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson, and
Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Timing of report
-Walters
-Senate Armed Services Committee testimony
-Possible effects
-Testimony compared to Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Dean
-Possible grand jury appearance
-Haig’s previous conversation with Buzhardt
-Forthcoming indictments
-Jeb Stuart Magruder, John N. Mitchell and Dean
-Grand jury testimony
-Haldeman
-Higby
-Ehrlichman
-Tape of Ehrlichman and Richard G. Kleindienst’s phone conversation, July 1972
-Paper
-Executive privilege
-Wiretaps in national security leak investigation
-Ruckelshaus’s statement
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Haig
-National security
-Haig’s conversation with William C. Sullivan
-Ruckelshaus
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files of previous wiretaps
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
and John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Use of United States Secret Service [USSS] rather than FBI
-FBI files
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Conversation No. 436-9 (cont’d)

-Ruckelshaus

-Mark W. Felt

-Reliability

-Ruckelshaus’s statement

-President’s assessment

-Ziegler’s opinion

-President’s letter to J. Edgar Hoover regarding Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Source of leak
-Two letters
-Attachment
-Daniel Ellsberg’s associates
-FBI leak
-FBI
-Removal of files to White House
-Sullivan
-Ruckelshaus’s statement

-Release of names

-Legality

-Access to wiretap information

-Kissinger

-Haig

-Wiretaps
-William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake

-Knowledge

-Publicity

-Haig’s assessment
-Employment

-Morton H. Halperin and Henry Brandon

-FBI leaks

-FBI files

-Grand jury testimony
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Buzhardt
-Dean
-Immunity
-Compared with Magruder
-Wiretaps
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Conversation No. 436-9 (cont’d)

-National Security Council [NSC]

-President’s role

-Kissinger’s role

-Krogh

-Sullivan and Mitchell

-Ehrlichman

-Krogh
-Ellsberg

-Krogh

-David R. Young, Jr.

-President’s letters to Hoover regarding Krogh

-Effective date of law

-June 1972

-FBI activities

-Lake

-Krogh and E. Howard Hunt, Jr.

-Cut-off date for FBI

-Ehrlichman

-Ehrlichman
-Grand jury testimony
-Telephone call to Kleindienst

-Tape and transcript

-Buzhardt

-Executive privilege

-Dean’s documents

-John J. Sirica

-Haldeman

-Walters

-Senate Armed Services Committee testimony

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

-Gen. Robert E. Cushman

-President

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Dean

-White House reaction to press stories
-Ziegler’s
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Time distribution
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Conversation No. 436-9 (cont’d)

-Buzhardt
-Walters
-Preparation for testimony
-Forthcoming indictments
-Possible effects
-Buzhardt and John C. Stennis
-FBI
-Richard M. Helms
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming testimony
-National security
-Kissinger
-Buzhardt
-Role in White House
-Compared to Leonard Garment
-FBI files
-Buzhardt, Ruckelshaus
-Location
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Location
-Ehrlichman

-White House response

-Dean

-Role
-Mitchell
-Sirica’s examination of documents
-President’s schedule
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Timing
-Department of Justice [DOJ] employee
-Haig’s mood

Haig left at an unknown time before 3:51 pm.
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