Date: March 1, 1973
Time: 10:52 am-10:56 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Richard G. Kleindienst.
[See Conversation No. 866-12]
Governors’ Conference
-President’s statement
-Revenue sharing
-Priorities
-Milton J. Shapp
-Personality
-Pennsylvania
President’s schedule
-John W. Dean, III
-Golda Meir
L. Patrick Gray III’s confirmation testimony
-Availability of Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files
-James O. Eastland
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Alger Hiss case
-Dean
-President’s speech in Congress
-Lack of cooperation by executive branch
-Harry S. Truman
-Tom C. Clark
-J. Edgar Hoover
-FBI
-Justice Department
-White House
-Espionage
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-Compared to Watergate burglary
-Truman
-FBI files
-Congressional access
-Availability of FBI files
-Bella S. Abzug
-Miami riots
-Black Panthers
-Watergate
-Precedent
-Control
Watergate
-Compared to Hiss case
-Politics
-Truman
-Ervin
-White House cooperation
-White House contact
-Dean
-President’s involvement
-Kleindienst’s conversation with Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Loyalty
-Investigation
-Ralph Flanders
-Press relations
-Joseph McCarthy
-Cover-up
-Press relations
Gray’s confirmation testimony
-Press relations
-Meetings with Kleindienst
-Political sophistication
-Candor
-Image
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-Law man
-Press relations
-Eastern press
-Praise
Watergate
-White House contact
-Dean
-Trustworthiness
-Availability of FBI files
-Gray
-Ziegler
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Reluctance
-Dean’s investigation
-Congress