921-021a

Conversation No. 921-21

Date: May 17, 1973
Time: 12:45 pm - 1:25 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

Instruction

Stephen B. Bull entered at 12:45 p.m.

President’s schedule

-Charles G. “Bebe” Rebozo’s schedule

-Norfolk, Virginia trip


Ronald L. Ziegler’s press briefing

-Length

-Meeting with President

-Oval Office

-Length


The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:58 pm.

President’s schedule
-Camp David

-Rebozo

-Hagerstown, Maryland

-Remarks for President

-Executive Office Building [EOB]


Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at an unknown time after 12:45 pm.

Norfolk speech

-Length

-Southeast Asia

-EOB

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Conversation No. 921-21 (cont’d)


Bull left at an unknown time before 12:58 pm.

Watergate
-Special Prosecutor
-Haig’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-Warren M. Christopher
-Charter
-Richardson

-John B. Connally’s opinion

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Replacement by Haig
-Access to records
-Doctor’s letter to Haig
-Reaction of Haldeman and Ehrlichman

1972 campaign

-Patrick J. Buchanan’s knowledge of Thomas F. Eagleton

-George S. McGovern

-Eagleton

-Administration’s reaction to revelations


Watergate
-Doctor’s letter to Haig

-Daniel Ellsberg

-Allegations of burglary

-Eagleton’s psychiatrist

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s reaction

-Eagleton’s medical history

-Buchanan’s knowledge
-Compared with story regarding President’s San Clemente property
-John W. Dean III
-Activities

-Charles W. Colson

-Doctor’s letter to Haig

-Haig’s conversation with Richardson

-Claude S. Brinegar

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Conversation No. 921-21 (cont’d)

-Possible calls to Haig
-Conversation with Haig after Cabinet meeting
-George P. Shultz
-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield
-Caulfield
-Connally’s opinion
-Connally’s conversation with Shultz
-Clemency offer
-Chappaquiddick
-Colson

-Possible removal

-White House staff

-Connally’s view
-Lawrence M. Higby and Tod R. Hullin
-Alexander P. Butterfield and John C. Whittaker
-Haig’s view

Brinegar

-Resignation


Watergate
-Higby

-Possible removal

-Move to EOB

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Removal from White House staff
-Haig’s conversation with Richardson

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:58 pm.

-Ziegler’s previous press briefing
-Huston Plan
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] involvement
-President’s role
-National security concerns

Press relations
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Conversation No. 921-21 (cont’d)

-Ziegler’s previous press briefing

-President’s activities

-Topics

-Trade, energy
-Head of state visits

-Iceland

-[Georges J. R. Pompidou]

-Cambodia
-Henry A. Kissinger

-President’s cables

-France


President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Staff reporting

Ziegler’s press briefing
-Grand jury

Press relations
-Ziegler’s role as press secretary
-Credibility
-Lies
-Perceptions concerning White House actions

-Lies

-Previous statements

-Dean report


-Ziegler’s role
-Murray M. Chotiner’s note regarding Herbert G. Klein and Ziegler
-Public relations [PR]
-Role of press secretary
-Leonard Garment
-Change of press secretary
-Perception of press

Watergate
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Conversation No. 921-21 (cont’d)

-Doctor’s letter to Haig

-Buzhardt’s reaction

-Eagleton’s medical history

-New York
-Missouri
-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
-Mayo Clinic
-Petersen
-Ervin Committee
-Investigation
-Story regarding President’s San Clemente property
-Ziegler’s previous press briefing
-Santa Ana Register
-Eagleton
-Ziegler’s previous press briefing
-Dean
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-President
-Buchanan’s knowledge
-CIA involvement
-Possible White House reaction
-Dean’s documents
-Huston Plan
-Possible White House reaction
-Haig’s conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Affidavits
-Louis W. Tordella
-Richard M. Helms
-Tom C. Huston
-Termination of plan


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-Possible White House response

-National security

-Implementation

-Relationship between Egil Krogh’s operation and Watergate break-in
-May 8, 1971 riots
-Huston
-Document of termination


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Watergate

-Huston

-Rescension order
-Buzhardt’s affidavits
-Helms
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Conversation with Buzhardt, May 13
-Resignation
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Psychiatric study
-Possible White House response
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Conversation No. 921-21 (cont’d)


President’s schedule
-Cabinet
-Meeting with Donald D. Clancy
-Photograph and press coverage

Watergate
-Dean
-Forthcoming testimony
-Ehrlichman
-Possible attacks on President
-Motive
-Immunity
-Relationship to Robert C. Odle, Jr.
-Possible testimony
-Contacts with President
-President’s statement on immunity
-Possible testimony regarding President
-Access to Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] reports and interviews
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible witnesses
-Colson, Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Effect on Dean
-Possible effect of Grand Jury indictments
-Donald H. Segretti
-White House strategy

Press briefings

-Length


Manolo Sanchez entered at 1:25 pm.

Instruction

The President et al. left at 1:25 pm.
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