Date: June 12, 1973

Time: 11:44 am – 11:54 am

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

[See also Conversation No. 937-17]

Watergate

-John W. Dean, III

-Use immunity

-John Sirica’s ruling

-Senate committee

-Television [TV] coverage

-Archibald Cox’s possible appeal

-Cox

-Concerns

-Pre-trial publicity

-Effect

-Ervin Committee

-June 15 private session with Dean

-Fred D. Thompson

-Timing of Dean’s cross-examination

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-Reasons

-Dean

-Timing of public testimony

-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s visit

-Witness list

-Jeb Stuart Magruder

-Powell A. Moore

-Position at Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]

-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy’s meeting with Richard G. Kleindienst on

golf course

-Magruder

-Conversation with Robert C. Mardian

-Magruder and Dean’s roles

-Buzhardt’s meetings, June 11

-Henry E. Petersen

-Harold H. Titus’s May 22 letter

-Possible attacks on Dean’s credibility

-Dean

-Possible immunity

-Effects

-Possible cross-examination

-President schedule

-Buzhardt meeting

-Economic meeting

-Conversation with President

-Recent

-1972

-September 15

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Content

-Money

-Watergate break-in

-Larry O’Brien

-Howard Hughes

-Haldeman’s recollection

-1972 campaign

-General Accounting Office [GAO] information concerning Democrats’

finances

-Bryce Harlow’s relationship with Head of GAO

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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-Buzhardt’s contacts

-Possible threat to Congressmen

-Leaks

-Possible letter from Republican Congressmen

-Peter Flanigan

-A request

-Dean

-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony

-Brezhnev visit

-Popular opinion