926–5

Conversation No. 926-5

Date: May 23, 1973
Time: 10:55 am - 11:12 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Greeting

[Pause]
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President’s schedule

-Weather

-Prisoners of war [POW] dinner



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-Schedule


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Watergate

-Tom A. Pappas

-Funds for defendants

-John N. Mitchell

-Meeting with President, March 7

-Subjects discussed
-Henry J. Tasca
-Watergate
-Fund-raising
-Investigators’ possible questions
-Funds for defendants

-Herbert W. Kalmbach

-Participants’ motives

-Pappas
-Possible conversation with President
-Possible conversation with Woods
-Pappas’s meeting with the President, March 7
-John W. Dean III’s knowledge
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United States Secret Service [USSS]
-Contact
-Kalmbach
-[Unintelligible name]
-[San Clemente]
-Kalmbach
-Personal attorney
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Rebozo
-Knowledge
-Woods’s conversation with Bobbie [?] [no last name]
-Rebozo
-President’s personal affairs

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Weather

-POW dinner


Watergate

-President’s family’s reaction

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-White House staff reaction
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Ronald L. Ziegler, Patrick J. Buchanan and
Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-White House opponents
-Committees
-Inquisition
-[Unintelligible name]
-Heroism
-Public opinion
-White House response
-Testimony
-President’s possible resignation

-Spiro T. Agnew

-Effect

-US foreign policy
-Double agents
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Public opinion
-Telephone calls to Woods
-Ervin Committee
-Questions to McCord
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-White House response
-Public support for President
-James (“Jimmy”) Stewart

-Prayers

-Masses

-Woods’s friend, Sue [surname unknown]

-New York

-Hairdresser

-Congress
-President’s visit to Norfolk, Virginia

-Crowds

-Attacks on President

-Vietnam settlement

-Peace

-Soviet Union

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-Public opinion

-Daniel Ellsberg case

-W. Matthew Byrne

-Possible future allegations

-Haig

-White House response

-Washington, D.C.

-Support for President


Woods left at 11:12 am.