Date: July 10, 1973
Time: 6:11 pm – 6:45 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Present state of government
The President talked with Mrs. Nixon between 6:12 pm and 6:13 pm.
[Conversation No. 947-20A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 41-52]
[End telephone conversation]
President’s schedule
-Meetings with Bryce N. Harlow
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:13 pm.
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule
President’s schedule
-Sequoia
-Departure
-Number attending
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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:45 pm.
Press relations
-President’s schedule
-Ziegler’s lunch with William S. White
-Wire services
-Gerald L. Warren’s role
-President’s schedule
-Meetings, discussions
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-John N. Mitchell’s testimony
-John W. Dean III
-Ziegler’s monitor’s opinion
-Testimony regarding H R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D.
Ehrlichman
-Fred D. Thompson’s request of Mitchell
-Dean
-Hugh Scott request of Ziegler
-Robert Pierpoint’s request of Ziegler
-White House response
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Mitchell’s testimony
-President
-March 22, 1973 meeting with President
-President’s knowledge
-Samuel Dash
-Dash
-Leonard Garment
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Magruder’s testimony
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-Dean, Magruder
-Role
-Contents of E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s safe
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Herman E. Talmadge’s question
-President’s knowledge
-Knowledge of Magruder’s activities
-President’s knowledge
-Mitchell’s role
-Gemstone
-Magruder’s testimony
-Robert A. F. Reisner’s testimony
-Funds for defendants
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Fred La Rue
-Meeting with Dean
-Dean’s previous meetings with G. Gordon Liddy,
Magruder, Gordon C. Strachan, Ehrlichman and Charles
W. Colson
-Dean’s meeting with Colson
-Hunt
-La Rue, Robert Mardian
-Conversation with Dean
-Edward J. Gurney’s question
-Mitchell’s contacts with defendants
-Hunt’s letters
-Maurice H. Stans’s transfer of funds to Kalmbach
-Kalmbach, La Rue
-Senator Edward Gurney’s question regarding clemency
-Dean
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Dean
-Clemency
-Ehrlichman and Colson
-Richard A. Moore
-Time, Newsweek
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-Others’ forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Mitchell, Moore, Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Dean’s requests for action
-Johnnie M. Walters
-George P. Shultz’s response
-IRS
-Moore, Ehrlichman, Haldeman
-Enemies list
-Colson
-Actions
-Dean’s request
-Lawrence F. O’Brien, III
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:13 pm.
President’s schedule
Bull left at an unknown time before 6:45 pm.
Watergate
-Dean
-Role
-Compared to Magruder
-Mitchell
-Ervin Committee testimony
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s forthcoming questioning
-Duration
-Compared to Dean
-Questioning
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Archibald Cox
-Forthcoming indictments
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Conflicting testimony
-Cox
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-Charter
-President’s prior knowledge of Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Ellsberg break-in
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.’s testimony regarding Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-David R. Young, Jr.’s possible testimony
-President’s meeting with Krogh and Young
-Young’s possible testimony
-President’s knowledge
-Conversation with Dean in March 1973
-Ehrlichman
-Howard K. Smith’s commentary regarding President’s powers
-Ervin Committee
-Ziegler’s conversation with William L. Safire
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and William P. Rogers entered at an unknown time after 6:13 pm.
President’s schedule
-Sequoia
-Haig
-Liebman
-Ziegler
-Haig’s brother’s visit
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Mitchell’s testimony
-White House response
-Dean
-Scott’s request
-Pierpoint’s request
-Memorandum
-President’s role
-White House response
-Colson’s view
-Moore, Kalmbach, Haldeman
-Mitchell’s Ervin Committee testimony
-Mitchell
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-Ervin Committee testimony
-Magruder’s role
-President’s knowledge
President’s schedule
-Ziegler’s schedule
Ziegler, Haig, and Rogers [?] left at 6:45 pm.
Unknown men entered at an unknown time after 6:11 pm.
Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s schedule
The President left at an unknown time before 6:45 pm.
Mistake
[Pause]
The President entered at an unknown time after 6:11 pm.
President’s schedule
-Walk
The President and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 6:45 pm.