416–34

Conversation No. 416-34

Date: March 15, 1973
Time: 9:22 pm-10:05 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate
-Problems
-Donald H. Segretti
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Investigation
-John W. Dean, III
-Questions about Ervin Committee appearance
-Response
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Constitution
-Separation of powers
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Testimony
-Dean’s letter
-Testimony to committee by staff
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Dean’s responsibilities
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Ziegler’s statement
-President’s confidence in White House staff
-Press questions for President
-Past investigations
-President’s possible answers
-Chapin
-Charges against
-White House statements
-President’s final statement
-Ziegler’s game plan to questions
-Segretti
-Chapin
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
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-Further questions
-President’s answers
-Dean
-Dealings with Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Ervin Committee
-Dealings with Dean
-Cooperation
-Dean
-FBI information
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Testimony to committee
-Congressional relations
-White House staff
-Depositions
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Dean
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Testimony
-Subpoena
-Cross examination
-Separation of powers
-Cooperation of White House
-Haldeman testimony
-Richard G. Kleindienst hearings
-Flanigan
-Answers to questions from press
-Cooperation with committee
-Right to cross-examine White House staff
-Ehrlichman, Kissinger
-Ziegler’s statements to press
-Confidence in Chapin

Trade legislation

Watergate
-CRP
-Testimony
-Dean
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-Ehrlichman, Ziegler
-Chapin
-Answers to press
-Washington Post stories
-Grand jury proceedings
-Chapin
-Segretti
-Allegations
-Chapin’s denials
-Herbert W. Kalmbach testimony
-Dean
-Position for Ervin Committee
-Separation of powers
-Statements for press
-Chapin

President's meeting with Kissinger

Ziegler's statements for press
-Legislation for Indians
-Patrick J. Buchanan [?]
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Rogers C. B. Morton

Executive privilege
-Statement by Ziegler
-Statement by President

Press conference
-Handouts
-Preparations


Ziegler left at 10:05 am.
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