Date: May 1, 1973

Time: 12:27 pm – 12:39 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate

-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing

-President’s directives

-Elliot L. Richardson, Leonard Garment and William D.

Ruckelshaus

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] guards in offices

-Washington Post

-President’s previous speech, April 30

-White House staff

-William E. Timmons

-Reaction to President’s speech, April 30

-Telephone calls and telegrams

-President’s opponents

-November 3, 1969 speech

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-Cambodia

-May 8 decision

-Goals

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

-President

-Charles W. Colson

-New York Times and Washington Post

-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston’s comment to Garment

-William P. Rogers

Henry A. Kissinger

-Reaction to President’s speech

-Instructions for Ziegler

-President’s support

Watergate

-Reaction to President’s speech, April 30

-Ronald W. Reagan

-Nelson A. Rockefeller and Spiro T. Agnew

-President’s speech, April 30

-“Christmas Eve” reference

-Garment

-Ending

-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing

-Instructions from Richardson and Garment

-John W. Dean, III

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing

-President’s forthcoming Cabinet meeting

-President’s schedule

-Quadriad

Kissinger

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

Ziegler left at 12:39 pm.

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