Date: April 16, 1973
Time: 12:58 pm – 1:37 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Watergate
-Ziegler’s schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Building Trades event
-Richard Moore, Leonard Garment, H. Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Garment
-President’s schedule
-William P. Rogers
-Memorandum to President
-Conversation with Ziegler
-President’s needs
-Advice of Rogers
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-President’s schedule
-Ziegler’s meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 1:37 pm.
President’s schedule
Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 12:58 pm.
Watergate
-White House correspondents’ dinner
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s conversation with Stephen Rosenfeld of Washington
Post
-Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s information
-Effect on President’s presidency
-Rosenfeld
-Support for President
-Woodward’s conversation with David R. Gergen
-Bernstein
-Information about Watergate
-Washington Post’s recent activities
-Motives
-Waiting for White House
-Possible action by President
-Moore, Garment, Rose, Ziegler
-Attorney General
-John W. Dean, III’s report
-Grand jury’s information
-Dean’s withdolding of information
-Dean
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Withholding of information
-Resignation
-US Attorney
-President’s conversation with Henry E. Petersen, April 15,
1973
-Effect on prosecutions
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-Possible statement
-Acquisition of information
-Special prosecutor
-Petersen’s role
-Special prosecutor
-Problems
-Petersen
-Possible action by President
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean resignations
-Dean
-Resignation
-Removal from case
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Removal
-Effect on prosecution
-Possible statement
-Role of grand jury
-Ervin Committee
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.’s statement
-Appearance of White House staff
-Televised hearings
-Dean, Magruder
-Ehrlichman’s opinion
-Suspension of White House staff members
-Effect
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Benefits to President
-Harm to usefulness
-Future revelations
-Magruder and John N. Mitchell’s activities
-White House staff’s involvement
-Protection of office of President
-Bold activities
-Minimum action
-Rose’s advice
-Haldeman, Erhlichman
-Haldeman
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-Effects
-Protection of President
-Public opinion
-President’s knowledge of $350,000
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Dean
-Rose’s advice
-Moore
-President’s investigation
-Compared with Thomas F. Eagleton’s actions
-George S. McGovern’s knowledge of shock therapy
-Action by President
-Effect on staff
-President’s consideration
[The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 1:37 pm.]