165–40

Conversation No. 165-40

Date: May 13, 1973
Time: 10:48 am - 11:10 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haig’s schedule

-Mother’s Day


President’s previous conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.


Watergate

-Washington Post lead stories, May 13


Election Reform Commission

-Terms in office for Congress and President

-Retirement age

-Wright Patman

-John C. Stennis

-Membership

-John James Williams

-Chairman

-Selection process

-Legislation

-Discussion of term limits

-Recommendations

-Term for House of Representatives

-Timing of election cycles

-Length

-Support

-Age

-Williams [?]

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Conversation No. 165-40 (cont’d)

-Financing
-Limits on organizational contributions
-Complaints against Democrats in 1972
-Leonard Garment, Patrick J. Buchanan, Republican National Committee
[RNC], and Raymond K. Price, Jr.

-Campaign violence

-White House strategy

-Editorials

-President’s forthcoming speech


Roy L. Ash
-John B. Connally’s role in White House
-Conversation with the President, May 12
-Connally’s role in White House
-Foreign Policy
-Henry A. Kissinger

-Energy

-Quadriad

-Advisor

Watergate
-Wiretaps
-News stories
-Soviet summit compared to Ervin Committee
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters and L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Kissinger’s briefing, May 12

-Bob Sherman’s story in the Washington Star

-Haig’s opinion

-Wiretaps

-National Security Council [NSC]

-Morton H. Halperin

-Knowledge

-Concern

-Haldeman

-Bob Sherman’s story in Washington Star

-Buzhardt’s meeting with William D. Ruckelshaus

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Conversation No. 165-40 (cont’d)

-Report

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

-Kissinger’s demand

-Kissinger
-President’s opinion
-Preparation for press briefing
-India-Pakistan issue
-Conversation with Haig, May 13
-Sherman’s story
-Ruckelhaus’s forthcoming statement
-Walters
-Memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-Views of Haig, Buzhardt, Dr. James R. Schlesinger and William E.
Colby
-Motives of President, John D. Ehrlichman and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] involvement
-John N. Mitchell
-[Bank deposits]
-Mexico

-John W. Dean, III

-Richard M. Helms

-Possible testimony

-President’s role

-Walters and Gray

-Memcons
-Possible disclosure
-Ownership
-Charles W. Colson
-Campaign

-Walters’s possible testimony

-Dean

-Haig’s conversation with Buzhardt

-Compared with Richard E. Cushman’s memcons

-Schlesinger

-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.

-National security

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Conversation No. 165-40 (cont’d)

-Haig’s conversation with Buzhardt
-White House response

-Charges of cover-up

-Grand Jury

-Press coverage, May 13

-Popular mood

-Dean’s documents

-Haig’s conversation with [David] Kenneth Rush

-American diplomats in Europe

-European’s reaction



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Watergate
-Dean’s documents

-Judge John J. Sirica’s possible action

-Contents

-Memoranda [memo] from the President

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