Date: June 12, 1973

Time: 10:03 am – 10:25 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate

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-London Sunday Express article

-Distribution

-John W. Dean, III

-George H. W. Bush

-Congress members

-Bush

-Press coverage

-London Times

-White House staff roles

-Charles W. Colson

-Ziegler

-Herbert G. Klein

-Ziegler’s statement

-London Sunday Express editorial

Vietnam negotiations

-Status

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s conversation with Ziegler

-Popular opinion

-Compared to December 1972

-Prisoners of War [POWs]

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-Henry A. Kissinger

-South Vietnam’s concerns

-Territory compared to Watergate

-North Vietnam

Press coverage

-Gerald L. Warren’s press briefings

-Subjects covered

-Vietnam negotiations, economy

Watergate

-Dean

-Immunity

-John J. Sirica’s action

-Ziegler’s conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

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-Ervin Committee hearings

-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony

-Use immunity

-Buzhardt’s contacts with Edward W. Brooke and Barry M.

Goldwater, Jr.

-An unnamed associate of Buzhardt’s contacts with columnists

-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson, James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.

-Possible perjury

-Prosecutor’s letter

-News leads

-Spiro T. Agnew’s speech

-President’s meeting with Kissinger, June 11, 1973

-David S. Broder’s column, June 12, 1973

-President’s supporters

-Melvin R. Laird, John B. Connally

-Aram Bakshian’s article in New York Times

-Charles II of England

-London Sunday Express editorial

-Distribution

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-Agnew

-Anne L. Armstrong’s press briefing, June 13, 1973

-Subjects covered

-Ziegler’s forthcoming telephone call

-President’s accomplishments

-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s statement concerning forthcoming Leonid I.

Brezhnev visit

-Haig’s report on Senator’s opposition

-William E. Timmons’s efforts

-Goldwater, Brooke, Mark O. Hatfield

-White House staff

-Bryce N. Harlow’s forthcoming role

-Ziegler’s role

-Telephone calls to Hatfield, Brooke

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Dean

-Buzhardt

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-Cross-examination

-Buzhardt and Fred D. Thompson

-Howard H. Baker. Jr.

-Dean’s testimony

-White House response

-Rogers C. B. Morton, Earl L. Butz

-Goldwater, Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Marlow W. Cook

-John C. Stennis, Edward Herbert, James M. Collins [?]

-Dean

-Popular opinion

-White House response

-Bush

-William J. Baroody, Jr. and staff

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] story

-Haig, Richardson

-Tone of news

-Buchanan’s article

-Distribution

-News story concerning Archibald Cox’s staff

-London Sunday Express editorial

Press relations

-Ziegler’s schedule

-Press briefings

-Warren

-Communications staff

-Harlow

-Timing of announcement

Ronald Ziegler left at 10:25 am.

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