Date: May 19, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:02 am and 12:47 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Ziegler’s schedule
-Press briefing
President’s forthcoming speech
-Peace [?]
Ziegler’s morale
Watergate
-White House response
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Possible television [TV] speech
-Wiretaps
-Domestic intelligence
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. and plumbers
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Clemency
-Cover-up by President
-Forthcoming White Paper
-President’s possible meeting with Congressional leaders
-Possible TV speech
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s testimony
-Previous speech regarding H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D.
Ehrlichman
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Charles W. Colson
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Forthcoming White Paper
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-Briefing
-Haig
-Ziegler
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Patrick J. Buchanan and Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Conversations with Ziegler
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Preparation
-Further revelations
-Walters’s memoranda
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Walters
-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-John W. Dean, III
-Possible release
-Buzhardt’s view
-President’s schedule
-Newspapers
-Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward
-New York Times
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Executive privilege
-White House staff members’ notes of conversations with President
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Colson
-Dean
-George H. W. Bush
-President’s freedom of discussion
-Clemency
-Conversations with President
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Dorothy Hunt
-President’s authorization
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-Conversations with President
-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield
-John N. Mitchell
-Dean
-Dean
-Allegations regarding Ehrlichman and President
-White House response
-National security
-Relationship to Watergate break-in
-Mitchell’s role
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Statement concerning President
-White House response
-Executive privilege
-Walters’s memcons
-White House staff members’ notes of conversations with President
-Ziegler’s conversation with Buzhardt, May 18
-Possible order by John J. Sirica
-Notes of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Notes
-President’s meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Clemency
-President’s discussions
-Motive
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-James W. McCord, Jr.’s testimony
-Rose Mary Woods’s opinion
-TV coverage
-Credibility
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Impact on public
-Purpose of attacks on President
-White House response
-President’s previous TV speeches
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-December 1972 bombing of North Vietnam
-Congress
-Press
-Reaction of public
-Compared to Dita D. Beard
-White House response
-Resignation and impeachment
-Future allegations
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Possible effects
-President’s opponents
-Support for President
-White House response
-Ziegler’s press briefing, May 18
-President’s possible resignation
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Joseph A. Califano, Jr.’s speech
-President’s election mandate
-President’s possible resignation
-Harris poll
-Courtney Sheldon’s question to Ziegler
-New York Times story
-Peace issue
-Harris poll
-Impeachment
-President’s meeting with Haldeman
-Congressional procedure
-Bella S. Abzug
-Buzhardt’s theory
-Effect of possible vote
-Possible outcome of vote
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Possible effect
-President’s schedule
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Dean’s roles in White House
-Dean
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-Allegations regarding August 19, 1972 meeting with President
-Investigation
Lyndon B. Johnson comparison
White House staff operation
Watergate
-Unknown doctor’s letter to Haig
-Justice Department’s investigation
-Wiretaps
-Morton A. Halperin’s conversation with Daniel Ellsberg
-Forthcoming leak by White House
White House staff operation
-Doctor’s letter to Haig
-Notification of President
-Congress
-Press and bureacracy
-Cabinet meeting
-Strategy
-Tone
-Momentum
-John B. Connally
-Cabinet meeting
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Connally’s schedule
-Economic meeting
-Quadriad
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:02 am.
President’s schedule
-Haig
-Richard M. Helms
-Haig’s recommendation
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Bull left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.
Watergate
-Special Prosecutor
-Archibald Cox
-“Kennedy man”
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Reaction
-White House response
-Morale
Haig entered and Ziegler left at 11:48 am.
Watergate
-President’s schedule
-Helms
-Haig’s recommendation
-Helms
-Conversation with Haig
-Helms’s testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Equipment
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Conversation with President concerning CIA involvement
-Helms’s possible resignation
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
Moynihan
-Letter to Haig
Watergate
-Haig’s activities
-Conversation with Helms
-Huston Plan
-Huston Plan
-Possible release
-Compared with Pentagon Papers
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INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
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Watergate
-Huston Plan
-Possible release
-Tom C. Huston’s memorandums
-Executive privilege
-President’s previous conversation with Ziegler
-Buzhardt
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Need for presidential confidentiality
-Buzhardt’s possible conversation with Leonard Garment
-White House staff members’ notes of conversations with President
-Haldeman
-Walters’s memcons
-President’s conversations with Henry A. Kissinger
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TACTICS
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Watergate
-Executive privilege
-White House staff members’ notes of conversations with President
-Criminal activities
-CIA cover-up
-Colson
-Possible statement
-Location of files
-Leaks during India-Pakistan conflict
-Instructions for Buzhardt
-Colson
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
Haldeman
Mitchell
-Telephone call to Helen A. Thomas
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-White House activities
Watergate
-Dean
-Possible immunity
-Documents
-Huston Plan
-Forthcoming roles
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-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Colson
-Dean
-White House response
-Congress, press and public
-President’s forthcoming speech at Norfolk, Virginia
-Forthcoming speeches
-Connally, Spiro T. Agnew, and Cabinet members
-Content
-President’s schedule
-Possible TV speech
-San Clemente
-Time spent away from Washington, DC
-Key Biscayne
-George P. Shultz
-Richardson
-Special Prosecutor
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Preparation
-Huston Plan
-Background
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Haldeman’s memorandum to Huston
-Termination
-Documentation
-Louis W. Tordella
-William C. Sullivan
-Hoover
-Meetings with Mitchell and Clyde A. Tolson
-Mitchell’s possible meeting with President
-Huston’s telephone calls to rescind report implementation
-Copies of memorandum
-Sullivan
-Huston’s possible conversation with Haldeman
-Implementation
-Robert C. Mardian
-Domestic intelligence
-Krogh and plumbers
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-Ellsberg
-Pentagon Papers
-Hoover
-President’s order
-Activities
-Brookings Institution
-Alleged possession of Pentagon Papers
-Huston
-1968 bombing halt study
-Efforts to locate
-Pentagon
-Leslie Gelb, Morton K. Halpern
-Activities
-Burglary in Georgetown
-Studies for President
-Pentagon Papers
-Break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
-Contrasted with break-in of President’s doctor’s office
-Allegations concerning President
-White House staff operation
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Distribution
-President’s possible TV speech
-Escalation of charges
-Timing
-Ervin Committee witness schedule
-Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Colson
-Indictments
-Walters’s memcons
-Release
-Timing
-[William] Stuart Symington and Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Timing
-John C. Stennis
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Congressional leaders
-Haig’s conversation with Helms
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-Buzhardt’s conversation with Stennis
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Ehrlichman
-Mitchell
-White House staff involvement
-Cubans
-Plumbers
-Mexican money
-Recollections of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Walters
-Affidavit
-Content
-Compared with memcons
-Memcons
-Problem areas for President
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Walters’s memcons
-President’s order to Ehrlichman and Haldeman to meet with Helms and
Walters
-President’s motive
-President’s call to L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Inclusion of Walters in meeting with Helms, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman
-President’s motive
-President’s telephone call to Gray
-Explanation of problem areas for President
-President’s conversation with Gray
-President’s meeting with Gray
-FBI investigation
-Gray
-Walters
-Memcons
-Possible testimony
-Dean
-Memcons
-Possible allegations regarding President and cover-up
-Dean’s conversation with President, May 21
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-White House response
-Walters
-Testimony before Armed Services Committee
-Dean
-Dean
-Activities
-Walters
-Memcons
-Gray’s conversation with President
-President’s possible order to Walters
-President’s conversations with Henry E. Petersen
-National security
-Ehrlichman’s concern
-Plumbers
-President’s conversation with Petersen, 4/17
-Delivery of Ellsberg break-in material to court
-Hunt
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with President
-Request for President to call Petersen
-Hunt
-Ellsberg break-in
-President’s subsequent call to Petersen
-Ehrlichman
-Telephone call to Haig, May 17
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Walters, Haldeman, and Helms
-National security
-Petersen and plumbers
-President’s conversation with Petersen, 4/17
-Ellsberg break-in
President’s schedule
Haig left at an unknown time before 12:47 pm.
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