Date: May 17, 1973
Time: 12:45 pm – 1:25 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown man.
Instruction
Stephen B. Bull entered at 12:45 p.m.
President’s schedule
-Charles G. “Bebe” Rebozo’s schedule
-Norfolk, Virginia trip
Ronald L. Ziegler’s press briefing
-Length
-Meeting with President
-Oval Office
-Length
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:58 pm.
President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Rebozo
-Hagerstown, Maryland
-Remarks for President
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at an unknown time after 12:45 pm.
Norfolk speech
-Length
-Southeast Asia
-EOB
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Bull left at an unknown time before 12:58 pm.
Watergate
-Special Prosecutor
-Haig’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-Warren M. Christopher
-Charter
-Richardson
-John B. Connally’s opinion
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Replacement by Haig
-Access to records
-Doctor’s letter to Haig
-Reaction of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
1972 campaign
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s knowledge of Thomas F. Eagleton
-George S. McGovern
-Eagleton
-Administration’s reaction to revelations
Watergate
-Doctor’s letter to Haig
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Allegations of burglary
-Eagleton’s psychiatrist
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s reaction
-Eagleton’s medical history
-Buchanan’s knowledge
-Compared with story regarding President’s San Clemente property
-John W. Dean III
-Activities
-Charles W. Colson
-Doctor’s letter to Haig
-Haig’s conversation with Richardson
-Claude S. Brinegar
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-Possible calls to Haig
-Conversation with Haig after Cabinet meeting
-George P. Shultz
-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield
-Caulfield
-Connally’s opinion
-Connally’s conversation with Shultz
-Clemency offer
-Chappaquiddick
-Colson
-Possible removal
-White House staff
-Connally’s view
-Lawrence M. Higby and Tod R. Hullin
-Alexander P. Butterfield and John C. Whittaker
-Haig’s view
Brinegar
-Resignation
Watergate
-Higby
-Possible removal
-Move to EOB
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Removal from White House staff
-Haig’s conversation with Richardson
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:58 pm.
-Ziegler’s previous press briefing
-Huston Plan
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] involvement
-President’s role
-National security concerns
Press relations
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-Ziegler’s previous press briefing
-President’s activities
-Topics
-Trade, energy
-Head of state visits
-Iceland
-[Georges J. R. Pompidou]
-Cambodia
-Henry A. Kissinger
-President’s cables
-France
President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Staff reporting
Ziegler’s press briefing
-Grand jury
Press relations
-Ziegler’s role as press secretary
-Credibility
-Lies
-Perceptions concerning White House actions
-Lies
-Previous statements
-Dean report
-Ziegler’s role
-Murray M. Chotiner’s note regarding Herbert G. Klein and Ziegler
-Public relations [PR]
-Role of press secretary
-Leonard Garment
-Change of press secretary
-Perception of press
Watergate
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-Doctor’s letter to Haig
-Buzhardt’s reaction
-Eagleton’s medical history
-New York
-Missouri
-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
-Mayo Clinic
-Petersen
-Ervin Committee
-Investigation
-Story regarding President’s San Clemente property
-Ziegler’s previous press briefing
-Santa Ana Register
-Eagleton
-Ziegler’s previous press briefing
-Dean
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-President
-Buchanan’s knowledge
-CIA involvement
-Possible White House reaction
-Dean’s documents
-Huston Plan
-Possible White House reaction
-Haig’s conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Affidavits
-Louis W. Tordella
-Richard M. Helms
-Tom C. Huston
-Termination of plan
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-Possible White House response
-National security
-Implementation
-Relationship between Egil Krogh’s operation and Watergate break-in
-May 8, 1971 riots
-Huston
-Document of termination
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Watergate
-Huston
-Rescension order
-Buzhardt’s affidavits
-Helms
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Conversation with Buzhardt, May 13
-Resignation
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Psychiatric study
-Possible White House response
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President’s schedule
-Cabinet
-Meeting with Donald D. Clancy
-Photograph and press coverage
Watergate
-Dean
-Forthcoming testimony
-Ehrlichman
-Possible attacks on President
-Motive
-Immunity
-Relationship to Robert C. Odle, Jr.
-Possible testimony
-Contacts with President
-President’s statement on immunity
-Possible testimony regarding President
-Access to Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] reports and interviews
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible witnesses
-Colson, Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Effect on Dean
-Possible effect of Grand Jury indictments
-Donald H. Segretti
-White House strategy
Press briefings
-Length
Manolo Sanchez entered at 1:25 pm.
Instruction
The President et al. left at 1:25 pm.
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