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