Date: April 27, 1973

Time: Unknown between 8:22 am and 9:34 pm

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and Manolo Sanchez.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.

Watergate

-Resignations of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman

-Reactions of Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Public relations [PR] aspect

-Ellsberg break-in

-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.

-Ziegler’s conversation with Ehrlichman

-National security arrangement

-Testimony before Ervin Committee

-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy

-Ehrlichman

-Resignations

-Opinions of Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s lawyers

-Increased chance of indictment

-Need for President to act

-Timing

-John W. Dean, III’s possible response

-Linkage of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Dean

-William Ruckelshaus

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Need for President to act

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.

Watergate

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-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Timing of departures

-Effect

-Public opinion

-President’s visit to Meridien, Mississippi on April 27, 1973

Refreshments

Watergate

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Raymond K. Price’s memo

-Haldeman

-Timing of resignation

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.

-White House Chief of Staff position

-Leonard Garment

-President’s requests of Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-President’s requests for full disclosure

-Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI] interviews

-President’s forthcoming speech

-Price’s style

-President’s reaction to break-in

-President’s desires for full disclosure

-President’s investigation

-Dean’s role

-White House staff changes

-Allegations

-President’s investigation, March 21, 1973

-Grand jury actions

-Departure of staff members

-President’s responsibility

-Grand jury actions

-Response of Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Attorney General

-Chief of White House staff

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-Frederic V. Malek, David Parker, Stephen B. Bull, Ziegler

-Press

-Relationship with President

-President’s relations with press

-Impeachment, Dean

-Martin Z. Agronsky’s show

-Dean’s documentary evidence

-Charles W. Colson’s memoranda

-Use of President’s name

-Dean

-Actions

-March 21 meeting with President

-Report

-William O. Bittman

-Ziegler

-Apology

-Washington Post

-Seymour M. Hersh’s New York Times article

-President’s information

-Threats concerning President

-Ziegler’s possible statement to press

-President’s forthcoming speech

-Responsibility

-Concerns during Watergate period

-1972 People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip, Vietnam War

-Tone

-Price’s view

-Ziegler’s conversation with Price

-President’s knowledge of campaign activities

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.

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Refreshments

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.

Watergate

-President’s statement

-“Canuck” letter

-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s comments concerning Edmund S. Muskie

-Tailing

-Donald Segretti’s activities

-Counterattack

-Bombing

-Columnists

-President’s possible response to Clark R. Mollenhoff

-President’s visit to Meridien, Mississippi

-Audience

-John C. Stennis’s remarks

-Possible impeachment

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-World peace

-Responsibility of US presidents

-Mollenhoff

-President’s involvement

-President’s knowledge

-Ziegler’s knowledge of President’s involvement

-President’s August 19, 1972 press conference in California

-President’s desire for full disclosure

-Gerald L. Warren’s conversations with Dean

-Dean

-Involvement

-Payments for defendants

-John N. Mitchell

-Jeb Stuart Magruder

-March 21, 1973 conversation with President and Haldeman

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-Bittman

-Hunt’s testimony

-Ehrlichman

-Paul O’Brien

-President’s response

-Clemency

-Ellsberg break-in

-President’s response

-Invocation of national security

-President’s leadership

-New York Times, Washington Post stories

-President’s forthcoming speech, April 30, 1973

-Effect of news articles

-President’s response

-Haldeman

-Departures of Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Effects on President

-Necessity

-Dean

-Ehrlichman

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Press coverage of Mississippi trip, April 27, 1973

-Necessity for departure

-Stennis remarks

-Forthcoming meeting with President

-Ehrlichman

-Resignations

-Mitchell

-White House staff

-Benefit to the President of staff changes

-Ziegler, Henry A. Kissinger, William E. Timmons

-Possible resignations

-List from Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Exposure of White House staff

-President’s forthcoming speech

-Timing

-Price’s schedule

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-President’s schedule

-Camp David

-Price

-Rose Mary Woods

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Resignations

-Meeting with Ziegler

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:09 pm.

Refreshments

President’s schedule

-Helicopter

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.

Watergate

-Dean

-White House response

-March 21, 1973 meeting with President

-Money for Hunt

-President’s reaction

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:22 p.m.

President’s schedule

-Camp David trip

-Material

-Tricia Nixon Cox

-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.

Dick Hillyer [?]

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.

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Instructions

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.

Watergate

-Chronology of containment efforts

-President’s forthcoming meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Resignations

-Ziegler’s conversation with Haldeman

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.

Food

Ziegler

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.

Watergate

-Public opinion

-Comparison to foreign policy

-Price’s view

-Garment’s view

-Opponents’ goal

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean

-President

-Staff changes

-Attorney General, FBI Director

-President’s upcoming speech

-Format

-Press relations

-Clark R. Mollenhoff

-Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting with Price

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-Content of speech

-Garment

-John F. Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs Speech

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-Responsibility

-Forthcoming press stories

-Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward

-David R. Gergen

-Attacks on President

-Hersh

-Clifton V. Daniel

-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston

-President’s forthcoming speech

-Public opinion

-Watergate’s impact

-Trust, respect in Presidency

-President’s forthcoming speech

-Conclusion

-Belief in Presidency

-President’s responsibility

Ronald L. Ziegler left at an unknown time before 9:34 pm.