Date: June 15, 1973

Time: 8:20 am – 8:46 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois

-Content

-Quality

Press coverage

-National economy

-Frank E. Fitzsimmons’s statement

-George Meany’s statement

Watergate

-Press coverage

-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s testimony

-Issue

-Richard Scammon’s view

-Gallup Poll

-Content

-Carl T. Curtis’s statement

-Magruder

-Statements

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.’s statement

-President

-Melvin R. Laird, Bryce N. Harlow, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Washington Post, New York Times

-Forthcoming Leonid Brezhnev visit

-Gordon C. Strachan

-Possible statements

-Haldeman’s knowledge of cover-up

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-Immunity

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Harry Reasoner’s comments concerning Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.

-John W. Dean, III

-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak’s column concerning credibility

-Ervin

-James Kempton’s statement concerning press stories

-Leaks, predicted testimony

-United Press International [UPI]

Brezhnev

-Interview with American press members in Moscow

National economy

-President’s program

-Response

-London, Paris, Tokyo

-Press Coverage

-Roger H. Mudd

-Compared to Phase I

Watergate

-Charles H. Percy

-Effect of Ervin Committee hearings

John B. Connally

-Role on White House staff

-Conversation with Haig and Ziegler

-Press coverage

Watergate

-New stories

-Maurice H. Stans

-List of contributions sent to unknown woman at White House

-Gerald Warren’s comments

-Dean

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Forthcoming Soviet summit

-Press coverage

-Brezhnev’s arrival

-Announcements

-Photographs

Watergate

-Dean

-Magruder’s testimony

-Press coverage

-John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman

-Mary McGrory

-President’s April 30, 1973 speech

-John D. Ehrlichman’s views

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Magruder

-Haldeman’s knowledge of cover-up

-President’s knowledge

-Popular opinion

-Break-in, cover-up

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Dean

-Popular opinion

-Dean

-Alleged conversation with President

-Charles R. Richey and civil case

-Lawyers’ strategy

-Possible motives

-White House response

-Alleged conversations with President

-Clemency offer

-Payoffs to William O. Bittman and E. Howard Hunt, Jr.

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

-White House focus

-Press coverage

-Possible conspiracy

-Mitchell, Magruder

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Forthcoming Brezhnev visit

-Press coverage

-Agenda

-Leonid M. Zamyatin

-Camp David

-Congress [?]

-Press centers

-Camp David

-Thurmont, Maryland

-Ziegler’s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger

-Zamyatin

-Press coverage of unidentified story

Ziegler left at 8:46 am.