Date: June 12, 1973

Time: 11:03 pm – 11:15 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate

-Maurice H. Stans

-Ervin Committee

-Testimony, June 12

-Television [TV]

-Coverage

-Ziegler’s role on staff

-Charles W. Colson

-News leads

-Elliott L. Richardson

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Washington Star

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Treatment by radio correspondents

-Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa’s note to President

-President’s request for retribution

-Ziegler’s conversation with Bob Clark, June 12

-Response

-Response

-Public opinion

-Correspondents

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-Compared to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

-Clark

-Public response

-Ziegler’s handling

-Kenneth W. Clawson

-Interview with Phil Donahue

-Ohio

-Letters to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-Questions

-President’s defense of his family

-President, Ziegler, Haig

-Ziegler’s conversation with Donahue

-White House response

-Donahue

-Nixon family

-Treatment by radio correspondents

-Bob Clark

-Intelligence

-Character

-White House response

-Helen A. Thomas’s column

-Conduct of the media

-Great Britain

President’s schedule

-Newsmen’s social events

-Gridiron Club dinner, White House Correspondents Association

-Press conferences

-Purpose

-Increased number

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Interview with Donahue

-Staff reports

-East Wing of White House

-Character

President’s schedule

-Leonid I. Brezhnev

-Press conference

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Watergate

-John W. Dean, III

-Testimony, June 12

-Fifth Amendment

-Consequences

-Forthcoming Ervin Committee interview, June 15

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s response

-Possible leaks

-White House response

-Motives

-Conversations

-Ziegler and Gerald L. Warren

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III and Henry E. Petersen

-President’s meeting, March 21, 1972

-Content

-White House statement

Donahue

Press conference

Donahue

-White House response

-Funding

-Taft broadcasting

-President’s reaction

-Instructions to Ziegler