Date: May 25, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:10 am and 10:24 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Florida
Prisoners of war [POWs] dinner
-POW release
-POW wives
-President’s performance
-Tables
-Autographs
-Statements of POWs and families
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope, John Wayne, Vic Damone, and James (“Jimmy”) Stewart
-Statements on POW release
-Perspective on Watergate
-Press reaction
-Positivity
-President’s statement on national security
-Television [TV] coverage
-Live coverage
-Children’s program
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-Dick Cavett
-Paul W. Keyes’s role
-Stage presence
-Preparedness or performers
-Stature
-Keyes
-Hope
-Audience
-Reaction to statement regarding December 1972 bombing
-Crucial moment
-Response in US
-Difficulty
-North Vietnam reaction
-Treaty of POWs
-Prison guards
President’s schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Briefing
Haig’s schedule
-Florida
-Haig’s wife
-Accommodations
-Rest
Watergate
-Haig’s appointment
-Duration
-Cabinet
-Briefing
-Ronald L. Ziegler
John B. Connally
-Operator
-Trip to New York
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President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Politicians
-Relaying problems to the President
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Conflict of interest
-President’s reaction
-Role on White House staff
-Advisor
Haig left at an unknown time before 10:24 am.