046-120b

Conversation No. 46-120

Date: May 20, 1973
Time: 10:17 pm - 10:43 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate
-White Paper

-Ziegler’s phone conversation with Bryce N. Harlow

-Deadline

-Contents

-Temper of the times
-Plumbers
-John D. Ehrlichman and Egil Krogh, Jr.
-National security
-Break-in

-Leonard Garment

-Break-in

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Desire to testify before Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s committee
-Ervin Committee
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Conversation No. 46-120 (cont’d)

-Garment’s view

-White House response to allegations

-James W. McCord, Jr.

-Record prior to Watergate

-Compared with Joseph Welch and Joseph McCarthy

-Garment

-Ehrlichman’s and Haldeman’s view

-Briefings

-William E. Timmons

-Harlow’s views
-White Paper
-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s discussion of clemency with John W. Dean, III

-Executive privilege

-Daniel Ellsberg break-in

-Individuals with knowledge

-Ehrlichman and Henry E. Petersen

-President

-Reaction
-Break-in
-White House reaction

-President’s knowledge and motivation

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-President’s knowledge
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Herbert W. Kalmbach concerning
money
-President’s morality

-CIA

-President’s knowledge

-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman

-Amnesty
-President’s previous conversation with Ehrlichman
-President’s knowledge

-Krogh

-Timing of Ehrlichman’s informing President

-Timing of Dean’s knowledge

-President’s reaction

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s view
-Garment
-View of Watergate
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Conversation No. 46-120 (cont’d)

-Raymond K. Price, Jr. and Patrick J. Buchanan

-Buchanan


President’s schedule
-Congressional leaders’ meeting
-Harlow’s view

-Draft

-Size of meeting

-Cabinet room

-Lincoln sitting room

-Jackson

-Publicity of meeting

-National crisis

-Possible speech

-Possible press conference

-East Room

-Clark R. Mollenhoff

-Congressional leaders’ meeting

-House of Representatives

-Senate

-Prisoners of War [POW] dinner

-Effect on Watergate news

-Trip to Florida

-Memorial Day

-Zeigler’s view


Watergate
-Harlow
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s conversation with Robert H. Finch
-White House response
-Fight

-Atmosphere

-Impressions

-President’s possible resignation

-Soviet Union

-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Gallup poll

-Economy

-Watergate

-Foreign Policy

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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(rev. January-2011)

Conversation No. 46-120 (cont’d)


National economy
-Polls

-Harris poll

-Gallup poll

-President’s conversation with Haig

-George P. Shultz

-Price freeze

-Zeigler’s view

-Public relations [PR]


Watergate
-Mood of White House staff
-President’s possible resignation
-Effect on nation

-Soviet Union

-New York Times

-White House response

-Haig

-Disclosures

-Declassification

-Bay of Pigs

-Ngo Dinh Diem

-Lyndon B. Johnson-John F. Kennedy, Jr. era

-Haig’s view

-Repercussions
-Johnson’s destruction of documents

-President’s study

-Zeigler’s view

-Disclosure of information
-Joseph R. Califano and Joseph W. Alsop

-1968 campaign tactics by Johnson

-Effect on nation

-Ziegler’s mood
-White House strategy
-Spirit

-Golf

-Ping pong

-Battles

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