Date: March 21, 1973
Time: 4:53 pm-6:01 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
News report
-Detroit
Press briefing
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Gerald L. Warren
-Food prices
-Positive tone
Watergate
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-President’s statement
-A letter
-Questions from press
-Strategy
-Statement on Dwight L. Chapin
-Disclosures for the record
-Washington Post story
-Public reaction
-Grand jury
-Convocation
-Findings
-Investigations of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman,
Charles W. Colson, Donald H. Segretti
-Statement by President
-Attack on Ervin Committee
-William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Infringement on constitutional principles
-Publicity
-“5 percenter cases”
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:53 pm and
4:58 pm.
[Conversation No. 421-18A]
[See Conversation No. 37-194]
[End of telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Harry S. Truman administration
The President talked with William P. Rogers between 4:58 pm and 5:00 pm.
[Conversation No. 421-18B]
[See Conversation No. 37-195]
[End of telephone conversation]
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Watergate
-Gen. Harry H. Vaughn’s testimony during Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Chapin
-President’s statement
-John W. Dean, III’s call to Segretti
-Segretti’s activities
-Disclosure of information
-Haldeman
-Knowledge of Chapin and Segretti
-Segretti’s activities
-White House staff testimony
-Letters
-Segretti case
-Case of bad judgment
-Attacks on administration
-Grand jury
-White House staff testimony
-Dean
-Investigation
-Advantage to administration over Senate hearing
-Ervin hearings
-Letter
-President’s statement
-Timing
Haldeman and Dean entered at 5:20 pm.
Trip to California
-Press relations
-Assistance
-John Ford dinner
Watergate
-Publicity for administration’s side
Press relations
-White House correspondents
-Television [TV]
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-[Unintelligible]
-Banquet
-Format
-Timing
-Questions for President
-Watergate
Theodore H. White
Ehrlichman entered and Ziegler left at 5:25 pm.
[A transcript of the remainder of the conversation may be found in 8RPC, pp. 131-145; U.S. vs.
Mitchell, Ex. 13, pp. 00208-00236 (1-27); SRPC, pp. 250-269 (1-20); RG 460, Box 171, pp 1-38;
SI Pres. Nixon, pp. 56, 185; SI, Bk. III, pt. 2, pp. 1149-1180 (1-38); Bk. VII, pt. 4, pp. 1831-2
(20-21)].
An unknown man entered and left at an unknown time during the transcribed portion.
[End of transcribed portion]
Haldeman, Dean, and Ehrlichman left at 6:01 pm.