165–10

Conversation No. 165-10

Date: May 12, 1973
Time: 10:11 am - 10:49 a.m.
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

President’s schedule

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. and Haig

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Conversation No. 165-10 (cont’d)

Watergate
-Wiretaps

-Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming press briefing

-Newsmen

-Kissinger’s forthcoming press briefing

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

-White House files

-Possible return to William D. Ruckelshaus

-Kissinger

-Daniel Ellsberg

-President’s conversation with Haig, May 11

-W. Mark Felt

-Felt

-Role in Ellsberg case

-Continuation in office

-Information from Time magazine

-President’s instructions to L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Leaks

-President’s conversation with Richard G. Kleindienst

-Statement in Ellsberg case

-Ellsberg

-Mistrial

-Information sent to William M. Byrne, Jr. by White House

-Wiretaps
-Haig’s interview with unknown FBI agent, May 11

-Leaks

-Ellsberg

-Byrne’s request
-Henry E. Petersen
-Ruckelshaus
-Haig’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-Buzhardt
-Records of Lyndon B. Johnson’s and John F. Kennedy’s administrations
-Robert C. Mardian’s testimony
-Kissinger and Haig
-Contrasted with William C. Sullivan’s testimony
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Conversation No. 165-10 (cont’d)

-John D. Ehrlichman

-White House files

-Sullivan’s fears

-J. Edgar Hoover

-Transfer to FBI

-Reasons for maintenance in White House

-Possible FBI leaks

-Hoover

-Ruckelshaus’s investigation

-President’s news conference

-Robert F. Kennedy

-William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake

-FBI

-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s possible activity

-FBI

-Legality
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger and William E. Colby
-Richard M. Helms
-Location
-Haig’s discussion with Buzhardt

-National security

-Helms

-Possible memcon

-Walters

-Possible testimony regarding memcons

-Custody

-Memcons

-Colby and Schlesinger

-Memcons

-Location

-Possible testimony

-National security

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Conversation No. 165-10 (cont’d)

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Watergate
-Gray
-Press reports regarding telephone discussion with the President
-White House response
-Clark MacGregor
-Gray
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming conversation with lawyer
-Testimony

-Walters’s memcon

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-John W. Dean, III

-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Walters

-Conversation with Petersen

-Possible conversation with Helms

-Helms

-Conversation with the President

-Walters

-Memcons
-Ehrlichman’s quotation of the President’s words
-Haldeman
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Conversation No. 165-10 (cont’d)

-Statement regarding Gray
-President’s actions
-Dean’s quotes
-President’s statement
-Possible interpretation
-Haldeman, Walters, and Helms
-President’s intent
-Copies
-Helms
-Walters’s possible testimony
-National security
-Contrasted with executive privilege
-Walters’s possible testimony
-Schlesinger
-Walters’s conversation with Schlesinger
-Petersen
-Haig’s subsequent conversation with Schlesinger


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Watergate

-Haig’s schedule

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(rev. February-2012)

Conversation No. 165-10 (cont’d)

-Buzhardt

-Gray

-Walters

-Possible statement

-Leak of Grand Jury testimony

-Press reports
-President and Gray
-Washington Star

-Ziegler

-Gray

-Possible statement

-MacGregor

-Possible statement

-Haig’s meeting with Buzhardt and Ziegler

-Haig’s call to Gray

-Gray’s possible statement
-Break-in

-White House response

-President’s conversations

-Gray

-Helms

-President’s new appointments

-Press coverage

-CIA memcons

-National security