931–1

Conversation No. 931-1

Date: June 4, 1973
Time: 8:12 am - 8:34 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

President’s schedule

-Staff meeting


Event

-Israel

-Danny Kaye

-Speech
-Statements about President
-Compliments
-President’s conduct at John Ford Dinner
-Support for President
-Kaye’s personal politics
-Audience
-Haig’s conversation

Melvin R. Laird
-William J. Baroody, Jr.’s forthcoming call to Haig
-Position on White House staff
-Bryce N. Harlow’s opinion
-Additional candidates
-Experience with the administration
-Trustworthiness

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] director position

-[Clarence M. Kelley]

-Timing of announcement

-Laird announcement
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Conversation No. 931-1 (cont’d)

White House staff

-Laird, Peter G. Peterson [?]

-Internal White House decisions


Watergate

-John W. Dean, III

-Records
-David C. Hoopes’s possible reproduction
-Restrictions on use
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Haig’s conversation with Hugh Scott, June 3
-Dean
-Records
-Hoopes
-Conversations with President
-Dates
-Ronald Ziegler
-President’s recollections
-Statement concerning meetings with President
-White House response to press story
-Ziegler
-Responses by Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Meetings with President

-Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-February 27, 28, 1973

-Ziegler
-Records

-Hoopes

-Haldeman


An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:12 am.

Ziegler’s attendance at meeting

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:34 am.

Watergate news summary
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Conversation No. 931-1 (cont’d)

-Dean’s statements
-William Buckley, Jr.’s [?] column
-Veracity
-Dean
-Statements

-Documents

-Press coverage

-Motives

-President’s response

-Conversations concerning investigations

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-President

-Executive privilege
-Bugging President’s plane in 1968
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-William Sullivan
-White House response
-Clark Clifford’s statement
-Resignations of President and Spiro T. Agnew
-Democrats
-Popular opinion
-Testimony of Robert E. Cushman, Jr. and Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-White House involvement in cover-up
-Walters’s memoranda of conversations [memcons]
-Leak to New York Times
-President’s opponents' strategy
-Clifford
-Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
-Statement concerning President’s impeachment

-Governors

-Linwood Holton

-Possible effect

-White House response

-President’s impeachment

-McCloskey
-Walters’s memcons
-New York Times coverage compared to Washington Post
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Conversation No. 931-1 (cont’d)

-Dean
-New York Times
-Revelation of Huston Plan
-Press coverage
-News summary
-Popular opinion
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] poll
-Ervin Committee hearings
-David Brinkley’s mail
-Conversation with Henry A. Kissinger [?]
-Haig
-Effect on career
-Dean

-Possible future revelations

-Meetings with President

-$1,000,000
-President’s call to Haldeman on June 3
-Haldeman’s recollections
-Las Vegas
-Clemency
-Time

-President’s response

-Tape

-President’s motive
-White House response

Ronald Ziegler entered at 8:29 am.

Watergate news summary

-Dean

-Chronology of meetings with President
-Haldeman’s recollection
-Log

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 8:33 am.

Watergate news summary
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Conversation No. 931-1 (cont’d)

-Dean
-Records
-Copies, originals
-Possible examination by President
-Hoopes
-Knowledge of location

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 8:29 am.

Watergate news summary
-Dean
-Chronology of meetings with President
-February 28, March 1, 1973
-March 2, 1973 press conference
-Records
-Originals
-Memoranda
-Dean’s dictation
-Ziegler

Ziegler left at 8:33 am.

Watergate news summary

-President’s position

-White House response

-Records
-Ehrlichman

Laird
-Possible role on White House staff
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Haig’s assessment of candidates
-President’s appointment strategy
-Congressional questioning of appointee

The President and Haig left at 8:34 am.
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