Date: May 16, 1973
Time: 12:34 pm – 1:25 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
G. Bradford Cook
-Resignation
Watergate
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Possible contact with President
-Possible replacement by James T. Lynn
-Confirmation
-Ervin Committee
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-Grand jury
-Delay
-Collusion, conspiracy
Polls
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-President’s popularity
-Foreign policy
-Domestic policy
-Downward trend
-Watergate, economy
-Sindlinger
-Watergate
-George H. Gallup
Watergate
-Confidence
-Polls
-President’s previous conversation with John B. Connally
-White House staff changes
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:34 pm.
Ronald L. Ziegler’s press conference
-Leonard Garment
-Availability to President
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:25 pm.
Press relations
-Ziegler
-Frequency of press briefings
-Issues briefings
-President’s role
-Indictments
Watergate
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-Effect on administration
-Administration’s response
White House staff
-Changes
-Connally
-John W. Byrnes
-Deputy for Haig
-Press secretary replacement
-Ziegler
-Haig’s role
-Public relations [PR]
-Patrick J. Buchanan and Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Ziegler
-Possible replacement
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Loyalty, capabilities
-Southeast Asia policy
-Support for President
-Liability
-Compared with Henry A. Kissinger, Haig
Watergate
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Resignations
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s testimony
-Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-William E. Colby’s possible testimony
-Richard M. Helms
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Colby
Personnel management and appointments
-Schlesinger
-Richardson
-Confirmation
-Washington Post editorial
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Congressional relations
-Senate resolution
-Funds for Indochina
Watergate
-White House response
-Connally’s view
-Solid decision making
-President’s appointments
-Congress
William E. Timmons
-Congressional liaison office
-Weakness
-Possible replacement
-Byrnes
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Financial situation
-Retirement
-Clark MacGregor
-Investigation
-George H. W. Bush
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
Spiro T. Agnew
-Attendance at Cabinet meeting
-Reaction to Connally
-Statement [?]
-Leak
-Support for President
-Duties
-Compared to Connally
-Cabinet
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Senate
-Compared to President as Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Vice President
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-Congress
-Domestic Council
-Reporting
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
Vietnam
-Kissinger’s conversation with President
-Peace negotiations
-Congress
-Impeachment
-Bombing
-Compared to mining
-Armed Services Committee vote
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Relations with United States
Poll
-Support for the President
-National reaction [to Watergate ?]
-Revulsion
-Marxist dialectic
Watergate
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Forthcoming call to Charles W. Colson
-Colson
-Executive privilege
-Grand jury
-Trials
-Ervin Committee
-Indictments
-Lawyers for Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Buzhardt
Agnew
-Reaction to Connally
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Connally’s schedule
-Bill Kintner
Declassification
-Bay of Pigs, Ngo Dinh Diem, Lebanon
-Effect on foreign policy
Watergate
-Wiretaps
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations
-United States Secret Service [USSS]
-William C. Sullivan’s statement
-News coverage
-Ziegler
-New York Times
-Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI] leaks
FBI director
-Jerry H. Jones’s forthcoming meeting with Haig
-Ruckelshaus
-Herbert J. Miller, Jr., head of Robert F. Kennedy’s criminal investigations
division
-Republican
-Service
-Latin America
-Haig
-Criminal charges
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker
-John F. Kennedy’s assassination
-Ticket
-Johnson’s knowledge
-1964 election
-Robert F. Kennedy’s problem
Watergate
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-Compared to Bobby Baker
-Cook
FBI director
-Miller
-Haig’s list
-Requirements
-Miller
-Republican
-John F. Kennedy administration
-Legal career
-Toughness, dedication
Watergate
-Buzhardt
-John W. Dean, III’s documents
-Defense Department visit
-Melvin R. Laird
-Dean
-Documents
-Possible release
-National security
-Criminal liability
-White House response
-Ronald L. Ziegler
Connally
-Previous meeting with President
-Attitude
-Beliefs regarding White House staff
-Motive
-Richardson’s confirmation
-Dislike
-Laird
-Dislike
-Lockheed
-Monetary issues
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-Pay ceiling
Watergate
-Press briefings
-Ziegler
-Garment’s role
-LaCosta
Personnel management and appointments
-Ziegler
-Value
-Haig’s deputy
-Buzhardt
-Possible role
-Watergate
-Counsel
-Work with Garment
-Domestic Council
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Staff
-Ehrlichman
-Relations with George P. Shultz and Roy L. Ash
-Need for in-house intellectual
-Price and Buchanan
-Policy area
-Agnew
-Intellectual
-Compared to operational functions
-Intellectual’s role
-Public speaking
-Performance
-Cabinet
-Shultz
-Time commitment
-Connally
-Possible Cabinet position
-Timing after Soviet summit
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-Kissinger
-Secretary of State
-Connally
-Liabilities
-Democratic Party
-Kissinger
-Assets
-Haig’s experience
-Congressional testimony
-Soviet Union and People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiatives
-Kissinger
-Overseas trips
-Social engagements
-William P. Rogers’s resignation
-State Department morale
-Soviet summit
Nuclear agreements
-US concessions
-Interpretation
-President’s control
-Kissinger’s role
-Announcement
-State Department morale
-Rogers’s reaction
-Connally’s viewpoint
-Rogers’s resignation
-Willingness
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Connally
-Kissinger’s possible response
Presidential papers
-Haldeman
-President’s notes to Kissinger
Ziegler
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-Duration of press briefing
-Garment
-Toughness
-Retention on staff
-Loyalty
Watergate
-Walters
-Testimony
-Confirmations of Schlesinger and Colby
-Memcons
Schlesinger
-Relations with Congress
-Selection as candidate
-Defense Secretary
-Ability
-Experience
-Knowledge
-Missile
Richardson
-Confirmation
-President’s support
-Conversation with President
-Conversation with Haig
-Ziegler
-Possible actions as Attorney General
-Liberalism
-Judicial appointments
-FBI director
– President’s prerogative
-Haig
Watergate
-Cook
-Maurice H. Stans
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-Texas
-Telephone call from Dean
-Dean
-Role
-Possible testimony
-Meeting with President, March 21
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-President’s response
-President’s announcement, April 17
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-President’s opponents
-Shifts in national mood
-Great Society, social welfare, and permissiveness
Haig left at 1:25 pm.