911–26

Conversation No. 911-26

Date: May 3, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:28 am - 11:59 am
Location: Oval Office
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Conversation No. 911-26 (cont’d)

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President’s schedule

-George P. Shultz

-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.


Leonard Garment entered at 11:30 am.

President’s schedule

-Shultz

-Congressional testimony

-Foreign policy address radio taping

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Shultz

-Jesse A. Helms


Bull left at an unknown time before 11:59 am.

Watergate
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] guards in offices of H. R. (“Bob”)
Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman

-William D. Ruckelshaus

-Garment’s responsibility

-Garment’s conversation with Haldeman

-Apology

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Ownership of files

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and John W. Dean III
-Access by Richardson or Garment
-President
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Possible subpoenas
-FBI access
-Protection of executive privilege
-Accusations of cover-up
-W. Matthew Byrne
-Garment’s conversation with William P. Rogers
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Conversation No. 911-26 (cont’d)

-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s forthcoming grand jury appearance
-John W. Wilson
-Garment’s presence
-Interrogation of Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. and David R. Young
-Byrne
-Garment’s presence
-Rogers’s suggestions
-Witnesses’ possible position
-National security
-Consultation with personal lawyer
-Possible memorandum by President
- President’s definition of privilege
-Witnesses’ possible actions

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Young and Krogh

-Leaks
-President’s conversation with Richard G. Kleindienst
-India-Pakistan crisis
-1969
-Pentagon Papers
-FBI
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s and G[eorge] Gordon Liddy’s possible wiretapping
-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Dean’s allegations
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Ellsberg break-in
-President’s knowledge
-Meetings with Dean

-Frequency

-Kleindienst

-Meeting with Dean, March 21, 1973
-Hunt and Liddy
-President’s conversation with Henry E. Petersen regarding grand
jury testimony
-National security
-President’s meeting with Richard G. Kleindienst and Petersen
-Dean’s investigation
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Conversation No. 911-26 (cont’d)

-Hunt’s photograph
-President’s response
-Richardson’s possible beliefs
-Picture at Justice Department
-Krogh

-Possible questioning

-Role

-Defense

-National security
-Ehrlichman’s possible defense
-National security
-Executive privilege
-Ellsberg break-in
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] officials
-Wiretaps on newsmen

-J. Edgar Hoover


An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

President’s schedule

-Helms


The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:59 am.

Watergate

-Executive privilege

-Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-Garment’s meeting with Wilson regarding Rogers’s opinion
-Krogh and Young
-Ervin Committee
-Wording of possible statement
-Charles W. Colson
-Garment’s meeting with Rogers

President’s schedule

Shultz

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(rev. September-2012)

Conversation No. 911-26 (cont’d)

Watergate
-Maurice H. Stans’s call to Garment

-Common Cause suit

-List of contributors


Garment left at 11:59 am.