165–31

Conversation No. 165-31

Date: May 12, 1973
Time: 5:17 pm - 5:47 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Watergate

-Wiretaps

-Henry A. Kissinger

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-White House attempts to contact

-Ronald L. Ziegler’s previous press briefing

-President’s role in investigation

-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Possible Grand Jury testimony
-Possible leak
-White House response
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Plans
-Southeast Asia
-Wages and prices
-Energy
-John B. Connally
-Popular mood
-Possible indictments
-Jeb Stuart Magruder and John N. Mitchell
-Special Prosecutor
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Warren E. Hearnes
-Arthur Goldberg
-Walters
-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Memcons
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Conversation No. 165-31 (cont’d)

-Possible copies
-Access
-Richard M. Helms
-Possible testimony of William E. Colby and Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Files
-Possible testimony
-Memcons

-Storage location

-National security matters

-John W. Dean III

-Memcons

-Conversation with Buzhardt

-Memcons
-Henry E. Petersen
-National security
-Contacts with Dean
-Memcons
-Meetings with Gray
-Dean
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Helms

-Meeting in White House

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] involvement

-Instructions to Walters

-CIA involvement
-Walters’s verification

-Gray’s Grand Jury Senate testimony

-Memcons

-President’s call to Gray

-Gray’s contacts with Walters

-President’s instructions

-Gray’s contacts with Walters

-Ehrlichman and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-President’s motives

-July 12, 1972 memcon

-Wording

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Conversation No. 165-31 (cont’d)

-Contacts with Dean

-Meetings with Gray



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Watergate

-Walters

-Memcons
-National security
-White House reaction to possible release
-President’s motives
-Conversation with Haldeman
-President’s subsequent call to Gray
-President’s motives
-President’s call to Gray regarding investigation
-Meeting with Gray
-Possible charge of cover-up
-Helms
-Conversation with the President regarding CIA involvement
-Possible memcons
-Possible statement
-Walters’s role in investigation
-Conversation with the President regarding CIA involvement
-Gray
-Conversation with the President
-President’s instructions regarding investigation
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Conversation No. 165-31 (cont’d)

-Gray’s statement

-Walters

-Memcons

-Gray

-Statement

-Press coverage

-Grand Jury testimony


Ziegler

Watergate

-President’s belief regarding CIA involvement

-Dean


President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler at an unknown time before 5:47 pm.

Watergate

-Ziegler’s previous press briefing

-Gray

-Conversation with the President

-Electoral Reform Commission

-Public interest

-Gray

-Conversation with the President

-Investigation

-Dean
-Conversation with the President

-Ziegler’s morale

-Case

-Dean

-President’s efforts

-Dean

-Motives
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