164–2

Conversation No. 164-2

Date: April 28, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:21 am and 8:41 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate
-Headlines

-David R. Gergen

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-Daniel Ellsberg

-John D. Ehrlichman’s defense

-Robert L. Vesco

-William D. Ruckelshaus’s appointment

-Press reaction

-Ziegler’s morale

-Meeting with Raymond K. Price

-Timing of White House actions

-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.

-Comment on immunity

-Immunity

-President’s instructions to Henry E. Peterson

-William F. (“Billy”) Graham

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Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 164-2 (cont’d)

-Special Prosecutor

-Grand Jury’s progress

-Prosecution of John N. Mitchell

-Jeb Stuart Magruder, Frederick C. LaRue

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

-Charges of cover-up

-President’s April 17, 1973, statement

-News coverage of Gray’s resignation

-Ruckelshaus


Rose Mary Woods
-Schedule
-Camp David
-Marjorie P. Acker

Price
-Schedule
Camp David

-Tone of writing

-Drafts

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-Gergen


Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Schedule
-Camp David

Watergate
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Possible resignations
-Robert J. Dole

-Grand Jury decisions

-President’s role

-Comparison with Harry S. Truman and “five-percenters”
-Administration’s actions
-Administration’s goals
-Truman

-Grand Jury indictments

-John W. Dean, III

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 164-2 (cont’d)

-Paul L. O’Brien
-Dean
-Evidence
-President’s notes on News Summary
-Haldeman
-Disposition
-Purpose
-President’s forthcoming speech

-Relationships of White House staff members

-White House staff

-Morale

-Instructions for Ronald Ziegler’s press briefings

-President’s actions

-Questioning of White House staff

-Grand Jury reports

-Leadership and responsibility

-President’s reception in Meridian, Mississippi, April 27

-Desires of American people

-National interest in Watergate

-Comparison with Truman’s administration
-Adlai E. Stevenson, III
-Actions
-Haldeman [?]