Date: May 9, 1973
Time: 6:35 pm – 8:26 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Knowledge
-Daniel Ellsberg trial
-William M. Byrne, Jr.
-Request for documents
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Notes
-Removal from office
-Destruction by burning [?]
-Buzhardt’s concerns
-Senate committee
-Questions
-Executive privilege
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-Location of notes
-Partial release of documents
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Information turned over to grand jury
-Content
-Charles W. Colson
-Copies of Ehrlichman’s notes
-Buzhardt
-Buzhardt’s opinion
-Colson, Jeb Stuart Magruder and John N. Mitchell
-Haldeman
-Notes
-Partial release
-Ramifications
-Ehrlichman
-Report on investigation
-Conversation with John W. Dean, III
-Money for defendants
-Outcome
-Buzhardt
-John J. Wilson
-Conversation with J. Bruce Whelihan
-Notes
-President’s papers
-Ownership issue
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-President’s role
-Wilson
-Buzhardt’s assessment
-H. Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Haldeman’s notes
-Content
-Buzhardt’s assessment
-Partial release
-Haldeman’s possible grand jury testimony
-Use of notes
-White House strategy
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-Buzhardt’s assessment of notes
-Wilson’s strategy
-Haldeman’s ownership of notes
-White House strategy
-Pre-emptive action
-Congress
-Possibility of impeachment
-President’s conversation with John W. Dean, III, March 21, 1973
-Money for defendants
-Ehrlichman
-Report
-Haldeman’s assessment
-Response to charges
-Need to protect Presidency
-Release of documents
-Mitchell [?]
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Haig’s role
-Buzhardt
-Relationship with John C. Stennis
-Haig’s recommendation
-Congressional hearings
-Possibility of delay
-Stennis’s role
-Committee membership
-National security concern
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Documents
-President’s knowledge
-March 21, 1973 conversation with Dean
-Credibility of Haldeman, Dean
-Content
-Money for defendants
-William O. Bittman’s conversation with Paul L.
O’Brien
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Threats
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-Amount of money needed
-Conduit
-Cuban connection
-Las Vegas
-Money laundering
-President’s response
-Clemency
-Hunt
-Haldeman, Herbert W. Kalmbach,
Ehrlichman’s roles
-Ehrlichman’s notes
-Mitchell, Magruder, and Dean
-Haldeman’s notes
-Possible release to court
-Assessment
-Selective release
-Pre-emptive release
-Watergate compared to national security
-Use of executive privilege
-Possession
-Haldeman
-Court response
-President’s counsel
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean
-Lawyers
-Objectivity
-Buzhardt
-Compared to Leonard Garment
-Damage assessment
-Partial release of documents
-Ehrlichman’s report
Manolo Sanchez entered at 6:55 pm.
President’s telephone call
-Time of day
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Sanchez left at 6:55 pm.
Watergate
-Haldeman’s grand jury testimony [?]
-Haldeman’s notes
-Contents
-Need for White House Counsel to examine notes
-Possible release to Ervin Committee
-Pre-emptive partial release by White House
-Ehrlichman’s opinion [?]
-Garment
-President’s knowledge
-Haldeman’s notes
-Possible subpoena
-Buzhardt’s possible screening
-Haig’s support
-Haig’s possible screening
-Buzhardt’s objection
-Garment’s possible screening
-Rose’s recommendation
-Request for Haldeman’s documents
-Screening of Haldeman’s notes
-Haldeman’s house
-Buzhardt’s conversation with Wilson
-Location of Haldeman’s notes
-Use of executive privilege
-Haldeman’s appearance before grand jury
Haig talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:55 pm.
[Conversation No. 434-9A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 45-177]
[End telephone conversation]
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Watergate
-Haldeman’s notes
-Retrieval
-Executive privilege
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with H. R. Haldeman at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and
7:55 pm.
[Conversation No. 434-9B]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 45-178]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Haig’s previous conversation with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s notes
-Haldeman’s possession
-Extracts
-Return
-Attorneys’ knowledge
-Conversation with Buzhardt, Garment, and Rose
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:55
pm and 7:55 pm.
[Conversation No. 434-9C]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 45-179A]
Haig conferred with the President at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:55 pm.
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[Begin conferral]
Problem
[End conferral]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Buzhardt
-President’s choice as counsel
-Haig’s conversation with Haldeman
-Garment
Haig’s previous conversation with Haldeman
Haig talked with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:55 pm.
[Conversation No. 434-9D]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 45-179B]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Haldeman’s notes
-Wilson
-Meeting with Buzhardt, Rose, and Garment
-Reading of notes
-Executive privilege
-Haldeman’s comments
-Garment
-Possible contents
-President’s conversations with Haldeman
-Buzhardt
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-Haig’s support
-Knowledge of issues, temperament
-Experience with Congress
-Executive privilege
-Ehrlichman’s report
-Garment and Rose
-Handling of Watergate
-Buzhardt’s knowledge
-Contents of Haldeman’s notes
-President’s conversation with Dean, March 21, 1973
-Haig’s concern
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s involvement
-“Devil’s advocate”
-Acquisition of facts
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Possibility of Buzhardt’s review of Haldeman’s notes
-Meeting with Wilson
-Problem with Garment
-Anti-Semitism
-Haldeman
-Possible meeting between President and Haldeman
-Ehrlichman’s appearance before grand jury
-Information
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Commencement
-Dean’s appearance
-Immunity
-Dean’s documents
-Judge John J. Sirica
-Motion to release
-Timing
-Contents
-Garment’s opinion
-President’s actions after March 21, 1973
-Request for report
-Ehrlichman investigation
-President’s desire for full disclosure
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-Magruder, Mitchell, and Dean involvement
-Frederick C. LaRue’s involvement
-Money to defendants
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman’s involvement
-Haig’s opinion
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-$350,000
-Haldeman’s notes
-Possible effect on Haldeman
-Contents
-March 21, 1973 conversation between President, Haldeman, and
Dean
-Intent of Haldeman’s attorneys
-Rose
-President’s possible resignation
-Haig’s forthcoming call to Haldeman
-Request for information
Haig talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:55 pm.
[Conversation No. 434-9E]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 45-180]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Haldeman’s notes
-Meeting with President
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
Haig talked with H. R. Haldeman at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:55 pm.
[Conversation No. 434-9F]
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[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 45-181]
Haig conferred with the President during the conversation.
[Begin conferral]
Watergate
-President’s conversation with Dean and Haldeman, March 21, 1973
[End conferral]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Wilson
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:55 pm.
Refreshment
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:55 pm.
Watergate
-Meeting between Haldeman’s lawyers, Buzhardt, Garment, and Rose, May 9,
1973
-Executive privilege
-Garment
-Content of Haldeman’s notes
-Haldeman’s lawyers’ knowledge
-Dean’s telephone conversation with Haldeman, March 26, 1973
-President’s meeting with Dean and Haldeman, March 21, 1973
-Dean’s interpretation
-Money for defendants
-Cubans
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-Las Vegas
-Clemency
-Hunt
-Amnesty
-Haldeman’s notes
-Wilson’s strategy
-March 26, 1973 conversation with Dean
-White House counsel
-Division of responsibilities
-Garment
-Buzhardt
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Attempt to delay
-Stennis
-Buzhardt
-Conversation with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Buzhardt and Thomas C. Korologos
-Ervin Committee
-Special prosecutor
-Television [TV]
-Hearings
-White House response
-Haldeman’s notes
-Location
-Executive privilege
-Possible meeting between Haldeman, Wilson, and Buzhardt
-Haldeman
-Meeting with Dean and the President, March 21, 1973
-President’s conversation with Richard A. Moore
-Dean’s knowledge of Watergate
-President’s telephone call to Dean, March 20, 1973
-Moore’s conversation with Dean
-Donald H. Segretti
-Haldeman
-President’s meeting with Dean, March 21, 1973
-Bittman threats
-Response
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-Necessity for Haldeman to convey story
-Compared to paper evidence
-Buzhardt
-Possible meeting between President and Haldeman
-Buzhardt, Garment, Rose
-“Feeling the cancer”
-President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Meeting with Buzhardt
-Meetings with Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Buzhardt
-Possible role
-Documents
-Release
-Effect on Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Ellsberg break-in
-Ehrlichman’s involvement
-Plumbers
-Ehrlichman’s involvement
-Documents in Hunt’s safe
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Dean’s story
-Gray’s story
-Role
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Mitchell’s request
-Dean
-Telephone call to Kalmbach
-Ehrlichman’s report
-Grand jury
-Kalmbach’s role
-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman, April 1973
-Dean report
-Ehrlichman investigation
-Submitted report, April 15, 1973
-White House’s assistance in breaking case
-Magruder
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-Magruder and Mitchell
-Ehrlichman’s report
-Grand jury
-Garment’s knowledge
-President’s actions
-Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Strategy
-Haldeman
-Wilson
-Possible meetings between President, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman
-Resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Reactions
-Richardson
-Confirmation hearings
-Ehrlichman’s involvement
-Haldeman’s notes
-Buzhardt
-Misunderstanding
-Wilson’s conversation with Garment
-Location
-Ehrlichman’s appearance before grand jury
-Haldeman
-Buzhardt
-Meeting with President and Haig
Haig talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:55 pm.
[Conversation No. 434-9G]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 45-182]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
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-Buzhardt
-Frustration
Haig talked with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:55 pm.
[Conversation No. 434-9H]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 45-183]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Haldeman’s notes
-Buzhardt’s review
-Haig
-Interpretation
-Meeting between Buzhardt and Haldeman
-Haldeman’s conversation with Dean, March 26, 1973
-Dean’s report
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:55 pm.
Announcement of Buzhardt’s arrival
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:55 pm.
Watergate
-Wilson’s meeting with Garment, Rose, and Buzhardt
-Executive privilege
Buzhardt entered at 7:55 pm.
President’s schedule
-Republican fundraising dinner
-Haig’s attendance [?]
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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 7:55 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:26 pm.
Watergate
-President’s knowledge and role
-Mitchell
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible guilt
-Possible indictments
-Mitchell’s indictment
-Ehrlichman’s report
-Grand jury
-Ervin Committee
-Effect on Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Dean, Mitchell, Magruder
-Magruder and Dean
-Mitchell
-Funds for defendants
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and Kalmbach
-President’s campaign role
-Motives
-Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Evidence
-Hush money
-Hearsay
-White House staff
-Moore
-Public relations [PR]
-President’s conversation with Henry E. Peterson
-Garment
-President’s counsel
-Haig
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s papers
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-Haldeman’s conversation with Dean, March 26, 1973
-Wilson
-Meeting with White House lawyers
-Executive privilege
-Relationship with Garment
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s view
-Buzhardt’s role on White House staff
-Compared to Garment
-Ervin Committee
-President’s papers
-Haldeman, Haig, and Kissinger
-Haldeman’s papers
-Grand jury schedule
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Haldeman’s papers
-Executive privilege
-Ehrlichman’s and Dean’s papers
-Haldeman’s notes
-Executive privilege
-Buzhardt
-President’s papers
-Haldeman’s papers
-Ehrlichman
-Leaks
-India-Pakistan
-Press reaction
-Buzhardt’s legal experience
-Possession
-Papers compared to oral conversations
-Ehrlichman’s conversations with President
-Grand jury testimony
-Haldeman’s conversations with President
-Ervin Committee
-Wilson’s viewpoint
-Buzhardt’s conversation with Stennis, May 3, 1973
-Buzhardt’s possible role on White House staff
-Stennis’s willingness to assist the President
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-Stennis’s position in Senate
-Stennis compared to Ervin
-Ervin Committee hearings
-President’s efforts in investigating
-Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and Stennis
-Compared to Alger Hiss case
-Grand jury activities
-Compared to Lavelle case
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Effects on possible defendants
-Ervin
-Republicans
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Scope
-Segretti
-Members’ desire for publicity
-Possible pressure from peers
-Stennis and Barry M. Goldwater
-Lawrence F. O’Brien
-Korologos
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Buzhardt’s priorities for action
-Haldeman’s possible meetings with Haig, President
-Buzhardt’s role
-Richardson’s concerns regarding Buzhardt
-Haig
President’s schedule
-Republican National Committee [RNC] fundraising dinner, May 9, 1973
Watergate
-President’s conversation with John B. Connally
-Resignations
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-President
-Possible impeachment
-Obstruction of justice
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-Bella S. Abzug and Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
-December 1972 bombing
-Rules
-Possible White House response
-Possible effect on nation
-Compared to 1964 campaign bugging
-J. Strom Thurmond’s campaign [?]
-Buzhardt
-Buzhardt’s classmates
Haig and Buzhardt left at 8:26 pm.
President’s schedule
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 2:25 pm.
Bull left at 2:26 pm.
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Refreshment
-Dubonet
-Lunch
-Alcohol
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Watergate
-Vernon A. Walters
-William E. Colby
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Memorandum of conversation [memcon]
-President
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Cover-up
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Buzhardt
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Memcons
-Elliot L. Richardson’s possible request
-Walters’s preparation of sanitized version
-Timing of delivery to Richardson
-Haig’s concern
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-Senate committee
-Colby, Richardson, Schlesinger
-President’s role
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-President’s intentions
-Richard M. Helms’s subsequent conversation with President
-Haig’s forthcoming meeting with Walters
-Colby, Schlesinger, Richardson, and Henry E. Petersen
-President’s conversation with Gray
-Walters’s memory
-Walters’s testimony
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Buzhardt’s fears
-President’s conversation with Gray
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman
-Haig’s conversation with Buzhardt [?]
-Guilt
-“Conduit theory”
-President’s support
-Compared to Henry A. Kissinger
-Compared to Adm. Thomas A. Moorer
-Pentagon
-Jack N. Anderson story
-Buzhardt
-Walters
-Possible conversations
-Colby and Schlesinger
-Richardson
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Contact with Walters
-Meetings
-John W. Dean III
-National security leaks
-Ehrlichman’s possible approval
-Buzhardt’s viewpoint
-Ehrlichman’s and Haldeman’s indictments
-National security issue
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-President’s trust
-Buzhardt
-Dean
-Buzhardt
-H[orace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Leonard Garment
-Buzhardt
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Watergate break-in
-President’s beliefs concerning CIA
-Funds for defendants
-President’s knowledge
-President’s judgment in personnel
-Moorer
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-State Department
-Bugging
-Walters
-President’s conversation with Gray regarding Watergate investigation
-Gray’s grand jury testimony
-Possible statement to Petersen
-President’s conversation with Gray
-Buzhardt
-Walters
-Haldeman’s involvement
-Walters
-Possible statement regarding Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-National security
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Walters’s statement
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Meeting with President
-Meeting with Petersen
-Haig’s support
-CIA involvement
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-Helms
-Conversation with President regarding CIA involvement in
Watergate
-Colby
-Nomination
-Walters’s testimony
-Possible conversations
-Schlesinger and Richardson
-Memcons
-White House files
-Ownership
-Contents
-Possible copies
-Richardson, Colby, Schlesinger
-Nominations
-Walters
-Conversation with Colby
Rose Mary Woods talked with the President between 2:42 pm and 2:43 pm.
[Conversation No. 434-16A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 46-7]
The President conferred with Haig during the conversation.
[Begin conferral]
Watergate
-Woods
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files
[End conferral]
[End telephone conversation]
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Watergate
-President’s previous conversation with Woods
-FBI files
-Ehrlichman
-Woods
-Lawrence M. Higby
Haig
Watergate
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-White House response
-Judge John J. Sirica [?]
-Ehrlichman
-William M. Byrne, Jr.
-Leak
Haig left at 2:47 pm.
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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:51 pm.
President’s schedule
-Monday
-Haile Selassie
-State visit
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Water commissioner meeting
-New York city politics
-Study Commission on Third Century America
-Chairman
-Mrs. Roberto Clemente
-Presidential Citizens medal
-Bill signing
-Winston Lord
-Farewell call
-Donald D. Clancy
-Ohio
-Unknown woman’s gift presentation to President
-Rockefeller
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Location
-Departure for Camp David
-Helicopter
-Bill signing
Bull left at an unknown time before 3:35 pm.
-Location
-Earl L. Butz
Butz, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Dana Mead, William W. Erwin, David Hamil, Stephen B. Bull, and
Thomas Hart entered at 3:39 pm. The White House photographer was present at the start of the
meeting.
Bill signing
-Photograph of attendees
-Greetings
-Introductions
-Praise for legislation
-Staff members from Agriculture Department
-Cole
Colorado
-Cattle business
Food prices
The unknown man, Butz, et al. left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.
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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.
-Secretary of State position
-Assistant to President
-Compared to George P. Shultz [?]
-John B. Connally
-Soviet summit
Watergate
-Vernon A. Walters
-Forthcoming meeting with Henry E. Petersen
-Conduct
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Documents
-Conversations
-John W. Dean, III
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray
-Possible conversation with Richard M. Helms
-Helms’s conversation with President
-CIA involvement in Watergate
-Conversation with Helms
-Handling of Watergate issues
-Helms
-Knowledge of memorandum of conversation [memcon]
-Haig’s opinion
-Memcon
-Access by William E. Colby and Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Haig’s conversation with Walters
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-President
-Knowledge
-Dean
-Walters’s possible testimony
-Documents
-National security
-Dean
-Role of recollections
-Walters’s forthcoming conversations
-Colby and Schlesinger
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-Content
-Walters’s meeting with Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Helms
-Walters’s concern
-President
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Public relations [PR]
-Missing memorandum [memo] [regarding wiretaps?]
-Instructions for Haig
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Leak of memorandum
-Jack N. Anderson
-White House sources
-Compared with New York Times, Washington Post
and Chicago Tribune
-William M. Byrne, Jr.
-E. Howard Hunt’s altering cables
-Tapes and transcripts
-Accusation of fabrication
-Possible leak [of cable?]
-Accusation of fabrication
-Testimonials
-Necessity
-Petersen
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-W. Mark Felt
-Leaks
-Inference of responsibility
-Walters
-Conversations
-Colby, Schlesinger, and Elliot L. Richardson
-President’s conversation with Gray
-Petersen
-Conversation with Haig
-President’s conversation with Gray
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Cable
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-Byrne
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Morton A. Halperin
-Anti-Vietnam stance
-Pentagon Papers
-Timing of release
-Walters
-Possible leak
-White House
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Felt
-Justice Department
-Byrne
-Newspapers
-William H. Sullivan
-Timing of testimony
-Missing document
-Haig’s search
-Ellsberg
-Byrne
-Material that mentions Ellsberg
-FBI’s wiretap transcripts
-Halperin books
Richardson
-Conversation with Haig
Connally
-Statement
-Conversation with Haig
-Kissinger
-Possible role with administration
-Roy L. Ash
-Energy
-Wage, price controls
-Dean [?[
-Transportation Secretary
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FBI [?]
Judge
Haig left at 4:04 pm.