Date: May 17, 1973
Time: 3:11 pm – 3:43 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President talked with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
[Conversation No. 438-15A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 46-98]
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:15 pm.
[End telephone conversation]
Thomas G. Eagleton
-Allegations in letter
-White House response
-President’s earlier meeting with Buzhardt and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-President’s knowledge
-Possible actions
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, and John W. Dean, III
-Possible White House response to unknown doctor’s letter
-Henry E. Petersen
-Psychiatry
-Ziegler’s research
-Mayo Clinic
-Extent of public knowledge
-Psychiatric hospital
Watergate
-Dean
-Access to Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] interviews
-Possible White House statement
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President’s orders
-John V. Brennan
-Thoroughness
-Bureaucracy
-United States Secret Service [USSS]
-Open files
-Threats against the First Family, President
-Ziegler’s report
-Camp David
-Computers
-Technicians
-Set-up
-Records
-Violent demonstrations
-Full reports
-Attack on the President’s car during inauguration
-Disclosure of attack
– President’s previous request
-Camp David
Ziegler’s conversation with Howard K. Smith
-President’s schedule
-Smith’s commentaries on President’s record
-Edward J. Gurney
-Treatment of Jeb S[tuart] Magruder
President’s investigation of Alger Hiss
-Compared to Ervin Committee
-Questions
-Appearance to public
President’s orders to Rose Mary Woods
-Mail to President
-Distribution to White House staff
-Haig, Ziegler
-Morale
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Eagleton’s medical history
-Charges against President
-[San Clemente]
-White House handling of allegations
-Concerns of Haig and Haldeman
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
Watergate
-President’s possible television [TV] speech
-Buzhardt’s view
-Dean
-Documents
-Howard K. Smith’s and Stewart J. O. Alsop’s views
-President’s possible TV speech
-Possible White Paper
-Dean
-Documents
-Possible news coverage
-Knowledge of Huston Plan
-National security
-President’s press conference
-Leonard Garment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-President’s opponents
-Changing tactics
-Press
-Congress
-Samuel J. Ervin
-White House response
-Tactical reasons
-Speech
-White Paper
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-White Paper
-Threats against the First Family, President
-Numbers of demonstrators
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-Washington Post
-Anti-war
-President’s response to threats
-Compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert F. (“Bobby”)
Kennedy during World War II
-Attorney General
-FBI figures
-Press conference
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Theme
-Radical groups
-Threats to Silent Majority
-Protection of society
-Support from embassies
-Local groups
-Investigation
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Investigations at President’s order
-Staff
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-FBI
-Compared to Pentagon Papers
-Threats to United States foreign policy
-Peace initiatives
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-White House response
-Ziegler at press conference
-White Paper
-Buchanan
-Press conference
-Ziegler’s opinion
-Public support
-George H. W. Bush
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-White Paper
-Speech
-President’s previous meetings
-Desire for peace
-Spiro T. Agnew
-White House response
-President’s possible actions
-Press conference compared to speech
-Dean
-Possible activities
-Ziegler’s opinion of Dean
-President’s opinion of Dean
-Credibility
-Ervin
-Gurney
-Actions
-Robert C. Odel, Jr. [?]
-Prosecutors
President’s speech on Election Reform Commission
-Press coverage
-Newspapers
-TV
-Washington Star [?]
Brennan
-Conversation with Ziegler
-[USSS report on threats against the First Family, President]
Ziegler left at 3:43 pm.
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