439–22

Conversation No. 439-22

Date: May 21, 1973
Time: 4:55 pm - 5:25 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper [statements about Watergate investigation,
May 22, 1973]
-Content and phraseology
-Funds for defendants
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Conversation 439-22 (cont’d)

-President’s conversation with John W. Dean III,
March 21
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s demand
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files
-Story regarding G. Gordon Liddy, May 21
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Content and phraseology
-Funds for defendants
-Dean’s conversations at White House
-John D. Ehrlichman

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:55 pm.

Refreshment

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.

Watergate

-White House response

-Forthcoming White Paper

-Content and phraseology
-President’s investigation
-President’s conversation with L[oius] Patrick Gray, III
-Gray’s conversation with Lt. Gen. Vernon A.
Walters
-FBI investigation
-National security
-President’s influence on investigation
-Clemency
-Funds for defendants
-Campaign practices
-President’s knowledge and approval of activities
-Special investigating unit
-National security
-President’s responsibility
-President’s speech, April 30
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Conversation 439-22 (cont’d)

-President’s handling of resignations of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and
Ehrlichman
-President’s speech, April 30
-Effect
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Tactics
-President’s schedule
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Preparation

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 5:16 pm.

Haig’s previous meeting with economists

-Energy


Watergate

-White House response

-Forthcoming White Paper

-Preparation

-President’s schedule

-Ervin Committee hearings

-James W. McCord’s forthcoming testimony

-Leonard Garment, Ziegler


Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:16 pm.

President’s schedule

-Sequoia


Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm.

Watergate

-White House response

-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 campaign

-White House response

-Prospects for success
-Congress
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Conversation 439-22 (cont’d)

-Possible effects

-Soviet Union

-United States

-Forthcoming White Paper
-Content and phraseology
-Funds for defendants
-President’s knowledge
-Haldeman
-$350,000
-President’s investigation

Haig’s schedule

Ziegler and Haig left at 5:25 pm.