Date: June 19, 1973
Time: 9:36 am – 11:00 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Demeanor
-Political skill
-Schedule
Ronald Ziegler entered at 9:37 am.
Watergate
-Television [TV] networks’ coverage
-Lead stories on John W. Dean, III
-Ziegler’s views
-Brezhnev’s visit
-Haig’s view
-Newspapers’ coverage
-Washington Post
-Radio coverage
-Brezhnev visit
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TV coverage
-Dean
-Handling of funds
-Seymour M. Hersh story in New York Times
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.’s statement
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr., Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-William P. Rogers’s conversation with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield,
June 18, 1973
-Haig’s conversation with Mansfield, June 18, 1973
-Rogers
-Mansfield
-Handling of funds
-Archibald Cox
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Possible indictment of President
-Republican Senators
-Leslie C. Arends
-Robert P. Griffin
-Buzhardt, Bryce N. Harlow
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Forthcoming conversation with Melvin R. Laird
-Cox
-Cox
-Possible indictment of President
-Press conference
-Response
-Charles W. Colson
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford
-Congress
-Laird
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Importance
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-Ervin, Baker
-White House response
-Cox
-Possible response by member of Congress
-Response
-President
-Edward J. Gurney
-Carl T. Curtis, Scott
-Ford
-George H. W. Bush
-Charles S. Rhyne
-Strategy
-Rhyne
-Senate
-Harlow
-Scott
-Rhyne
-William E. Timmons
-Harlow
-Laird
-Timmons
-Cox
-Dean
-Importance
-Possible press coverage
-Cox
-Scott’s possible response
-Charles A. Wright’s possible response
-Dean
-Handling of funds
-Buzhardt
-Hersh’s story
-Hersh’s view
Brezhnev’s visit
-Media coverage
-TV
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-Brezhnev’s arrival
-Crowds
-President’s speech
-State dinner
-Signing ceremonies
-Impact
-Agenda
-Sequoia
-Media presence
-Kissinger, George P. Shultz, Nikolai S. Patolichev, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin,
Andrei A. Gromyko, Rogers
-Leonid M. Zamyatin
-Briefing with Ziegler
-Camp David
-Agenda
-Brezhnev’s request
-Camp David
-Gromyko, Rogers
-Camp David, San Clemente, Air Force One
-Private talks with President
-Coverage at Camp David
-Photograph opportunities
-Arrival
-Aspen Lodge
-Meeting
-TV coverage
Watergate
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Mansfield’s conversations
-Rogers
-Haig
Brezhnev’s visit
-Agenda
-Signing ceremony
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-Plenary session
-Delay
-Brezhnev
-Rest
-Shultz, Patolichev
Shultz
-Memorandum
-Content
-Compared to John B. Connally
-Negative comments
Brezhnev’s visit
-Plenary session
-Connally, Laird
Connally
-Possible press conference
-Rumors
-Haig’s assessment
-Media speculation
-Story
-Ziegler
-Possible press conference at Camp David
-White House media
-Connally’s new status as a Republican
Ziegler left at 10:03 am.
National economy
-Price rollback
-Announcement
-Stock Market
-Arthur F. Burns
-President’s schedule
-Demeanor
-Plan
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-Meeting with Shultz
-President’s program
-Popular opinion
-Freeze
-Lifting of controls
-Price and wage freeze
-Timing
-President’s decisions
-Shultz’s viewpoint
-30 compared with 60 days
-Food price controls
-Shultz
-Doctrinaire viewpoint
-Popular opinion
-Stock Market
-Albert E. Sindlinger’s prediction
-Price controls
-Burns
-President’s assessment
-Shultz
-Management style
-Views
-Herbert Stein, John T. Dunlop
-William E. Simon
-Phase III
-Timing
-Mistake
-Correction
-Panic
-President’s program
-Laird’s role
-Shultz
-Differing points of view
-Debate
Laird
-Brezhnev visit
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-[Plenary session], economy meeting
-Connally
-View point
-Attendance
-Story concerning Connally and Ziegler
-Leaks to the media
-[Plenary session]
-Cabinet meeting with Haig and Shultz
-Connally’s role
-Views concerning Connally
-President’s support
-Schedule
-San Clemente
-Connally
-Congressional session
Haig’s schedule
-Buzhardt
The President talked with the White House operator at 10:12 am.
[Conversation No. 945-3A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 41-12]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Media coverage
-President’s opponents
-Effect on Brezhnev’s visit
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s statement
-Paris, Iceland
-President’s economic plan
-Responses of President’s opponents
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John A. Love
-Wife
-Haig’s conversation with Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Conversation with Connally and Laird
-Forthcoming conversations
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Brother [?]
-Relationship to Love
-Campaign manager
-Haig’s telephone call
Buzhardt entered at 10:13 am.
Watergate
-Dean
-Handling of funds
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming meeting
-Ervin Committee
-Carmine Bellino
-Statement concerning $14,000
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming meeting with Maurice H. Stans
-$22,000
-Stans
-Details
-Amounts
-Fred F. Fielding’s role
-Amounts
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Watergate
-Handling of funds
-Ervin Committee interest
-Hersh
-New York Times
-Jack N. Anderson’s story
-Metromedia
-Les Whitten
-Anderson
-Bail for a former employee
-Dean
-Forthcoming statement
-Handling
-Ervin Committee
-Executive session, June 18, 1973
-Dean
-Lawyer’s statement
-Dean’s possible testimony
-Effect on possible trial
-Dean
-Handling of funds
-Investigations
-Previous testimony
-Bob Manuel [sp?]
-Role in Billy Sol Estes investigation
-Ervin Committee
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Edward J. Gurney’s view
-Gurney
-Dean
-Handling of funds
-Possible civil suit by CRP
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-Deposition
-Rhyne
-Relationship with President
-Manuel [sp?]
-Cox
-Statement concerning possible indictment of President
-Possible Congressional response
-Wright
-Ziegler
-Timmons
-John C. Stennis
-White House response
-Statement, June 18, 1973
-San Clemente
-Gift of President’s papers
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming conversation with Richardson
-Cox’s jurisdiction
-San Clemente
-Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Richardson
-Richardson
-Possible statement
-Cox’s jurisdiction
-Conversation with Buzhardt, June 16, 1973
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Cox’s jurisdiction
-San Clemente
-Kennedy family
-Watergate burglary and cover-up campaign activities
-Grand jury
-Activities
-Cox’s investigation
-Prosecutors
-James Neal
-Role
-Background
-John F. Kennedy administration
-James (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
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-Ervin Committee
-Cox
-Compared to Ervin Committee
-Possible indictments
-White House response
-Publicity
-Democrats’ campaign financing
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Timing
-Buzhardt’s possible conversation with Fred D. Thompson
-Letter from Mansfield, Scott
-Baker, Ervin
-Dean’s lawyer
-Herman E. Talmadge
-Today show interview, June 19, 1973
-Reporters’ questions
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Content
-Possible cross-examination
-Thompson
-Effect
-Possible cross-examination
-Sources
-Baker
-Gurney
-Baker
-Gurney
-Questioning
-Buzhardt’s assistance
-Thompson
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Possible perjury
-Thompson
-Press coverage
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-Compared to previous leaks
-Response
-White House
-Haldeman, John Wilson, Buzhardt
-Meeting with President and H. R. Haldeman, March 21, 1973
-President’s motive
-Charles N. Shaffer
-Handling of funds
-Timing
-Anderson
-Don McI. Kendall
-Hersh
-Reporters’ views
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Timing of Dean’s testimony
-Baker’s statement, June 18, 1973
-Mansfield’s and Scott’s letter
-Stennis
-Health
-Forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt
-Goldwater
-Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.’s relationship to Dean
-Senators’ response to Dean
-Curtis, Roman Hruska, Strom Thurmond, Harry Byrd
-Dean
-Ervin Committee testimony
-Response
-Subornation of perjury
-Clemency
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s statement
-Conversations with Gray and Richard G. Kleindienst
-Content
-White House response
-White House strategy
-Media reports
-Ervin Committee testimony, June 18, 1973
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-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Helen A. Thomas’s stories
-Conversation with Haig
-John N. Mitchell
-Health
-Mitchell
-Knowledge
-Effect of Martha (Beall) Mitchell’s press contacts
-Thomas
Press relations
-Tom [Last name unknown]
-Dennis Chavez
-Unknown man from West Virginia
-Herman E. Talmadge
-Carl B. Albert
-Jack Anderson
-Stature
-White House staff
-Double standard
Watergate
-Samuel Dash
-Cox’s statement
-Possible response
-Ziegler, Hruska
-Press coverage
-New York Times, Washington Post, network news
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming conversations with Laird, Ziegler
-Mitchell
-President’s report to Henry E. Petersen
-William O. Bittman
-Possible relationship with Petersen
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Financial condition
-Bittman’s fee
-Funds from Dean
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-Colson’s view
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming actions
-Possible subpoena of Dean financial information
-Laird meeting
-Stennis
-Meeting with Senators
-Possible effect
-Washington contrasted with rest of nation
-Washington Post
-Senator’s possible conversations
-Wright
-Leonard Garment
-Jacob K. Javits, Charles H. Percy
-Dean
-Handling of funds
Buzhardt left at 10:53 am.
-Response to press charges
-Haig’s view
-Dean
-Motive
-Richardson
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Cox’s jurisdiction
-Mandate for confirmation
-White House response
-Love
-Meeting with President
-Possible press statement
-Possible effect of Dean’s testimony
-Forthcoming role on White House staff
-Conversation with Haig
-Dean
-Laird
-President’s White Paper [Statement on Watergate, May 22, 1973]
-White House response
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-White Paper, May 22, 1973
-Dean
-Conversation with President and H. R. Haldeman, March 21, 1973
-$1 million
-President’s response
-Camp David
-Mitchell meeting, March 22, 1973
Haig left at 11:00 am.