419–20

Conversation No. 419-20

Date: March 14, 1973
Time: Unknown between 9:50 am and 10:50 am
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Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and John W. Dean, III.

Richard A. Moore
-Attendance at meeting

Watergate
-Ziegler's press conference
-Time
-Public statement on Senate questions
-Formulation
-Executive privilege
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Statements
-Executive privilege
-President's policy
-Senate questions
-Testimony of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Charles W.
Colson
-Problems
-John N. Mitchell
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Nomination
-UNINTELLIGIBLE
-G. Gordon Liddy
-Questions

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:50 am.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:50 am.

Watergate
-Dean's letter
-Subpoena
-President's response
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-Gray's testimony
-Press questions
-Position
-Confirmation
-Timeframe
-Watergate

Richard A. Moore entered at an unknown time after 9:55 am.

-Congressional subpoenas
-Advantages to administration
-Court fight
-Delays
-Prominence of issue
-Cover-up money compared to facts
-White House staff
-Vulnerabilities
-Haldeman, John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Haldeman
-Mitchell
-Responsibilities
-Compared to culpability
-Donald H. Segretti and Dwight L. Chapin
-Impact
-Damage to administration
-Public reaction to Watergate
-Importance of issue
-Level of public suspicion
-Haldeman’s, Mitchell’s knowledge
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Cover up money
-Origin
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Administration strategy
-Consistency with President's statement
-Dean
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-Written interrogatories
-Answers
-Executive privilege
-Use
-Reaction of press
-Targets
-Haldeman
-Mitchell
-Chapin
-Colson
-White House staff
-Public perceptions of Haldeman, Mitchell
-Newsweek article
-Chapin's relation to Haldeman
-Magruder
-Relation to Haldeman
-Haldeman
-Involvement
-Dick Tuck
-President's security
-Demonstrations
-Violence
-Tuck
-Organization
-Opposition to George S. McGovern
-President's campaign policy on heckling
-Public perceptions
-White House staff
-Gordon C. Strachan, Magruder and Chapin
-Link to Haldeman
-White House response
-Investigation
-Segretti
-Gray testimony
-Chapin, Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] report
-Segretti
-Allegations of involvement
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-Ziegler's response
-President's suggestions
-1972 campaign
-Public statements
-Ervin hearings
-Work with administration
-Problems
-President's comments
-Segretti
-President's knowledge
-Response to questions
-Illegal practices
-Espionage and sabotage
-Legality
-Campaign practices
-False mailings
-Demonstrations against President
-Violence
-Double standard
-Press questions and the administration's responses
-Illegal activities
-Demonstrations
-Distinction from legal activities
-Campaign practices
-Election campaign tactics
-Sabotage and espionage
-Violations of law
-Legal acts
-Demonstrations
-Publicity
-Double standards
-President's press conference questions
-Answers to questions for President
-Demonstrations
-Illegal acts
-Questions on illegal acts
-Tuck
-Dean's report on Watergate
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-Campaign ethics
-Chapin's departure from White House
-Segretti case
-Haldeman's knowledge
-Chapin's role
-Kalmbach's role
-Allegations
-Substance
-FBI investigation
-Campaign activities
-Hunt
-Liddy
-Dean's investigation of FBI files
-Illegal acts
-Dean's investigation
-Segretti
-Chapin
-Strachan
-Segretti
-Vulnerability
-Chapin
-Kalmbach
-FBI investigation
-Gray's testimony
-Chapin interviewed
-Activities
-Allegations
-Line of questioning
-Ziegler's statement
-Ervin Committee
-Impartiality
-Investigation of both sides of campaign
-Public attitudes
-White House knowledge
-Dean investigation
-President's role
-Watergate break-in
-Hunt and Liddy
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-Magruder
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Dean investigation
-President's statements for press
-Segretti
-Overblown rhetoric
-Demonstrations
-Violence
-Double standard of press
-Involvement of McGovern supporters
-Segretti
-Allegations
-Ziegler's statement

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:55 am.

President's next meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:50 am.

Watergate
-Ziegler's press conference
-Preparation of statement
-Ervin Committee
-Ziegler's comments
-Formulation
-President's comments
-Responsibility for break-in
-Exploitation by opposition
-Rhetoric
-President's comments to press
-Gray hearings
-Robert L. Vesco case
-Executive privilege
-White House staff

President's meeting with Dean and Moore
-FBI investigation
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Ziegler, Dean and Moore left at 10:50 am.