Date: May 21, 1973
Time: 10:53 am - 11:13 am
Location: Old Executive Office Building
President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-White House response
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Intellectuals’ response
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper [statements about Watergate investigation,
May 22, 1973]
-New York Times and Daniel Ellsberg case
-Phraseology and content
-Disclaimer on scope of paper
-President’s call to Gray
-Gray’s conversation with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-President’s instructions
-President’s meeting with Gray
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
-President’s meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D.
Ehrlichman regarding Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 439-2 (cont’d)
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s meeting with Richard M.
Helms and Walters
-CIA involvement
-Plumbers
-President’s investigation
-Discussions with Henry E. Petersen
-Extent of investigation
-National security
-E. Howard Hunt’s break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s
office
-Report to William M. Byrne
-Ehrlichman
-Plumbers
-Haig’s conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-White House cooperation with Byrne
-White House cooperation with Byrne
-President’s conversations with Petersen
-Break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
-Ehrlichman’s beliefs regarding John W. Dean III and Petersen
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-President’s knowledge
-President’s cooperation with Byrne
-President’s discussions with Petersen
-Hunt
-National security
-Pictures
-Possible White House response
-Documents and memcons [memos of conversation]
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s statements
-White Paper
-Content and phraseology
-Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt
-President’s conversations with Petersen
-Cover-up
-President’s speech, April 30
-Currency
-Norfolk, Virginia speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 439-2 (cont’d)
-Public confidence
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Funds for defendants
-Liability
-President’s knowledge
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-White House response