44–32

Conversation No. 44-32

Date: March 27, 1973
Time: Unknown between 5:22 pm and 5:34 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See also Conversation No. 424-3]

Watergate
-Ziegler’s meeting with press
-Samuel Dash
-Dash
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Tom C. Korologos’ report
-Ziegler’s meeting with press
-Ervin committee
-John W. Dean, III
-Possible appearance before grand jury
-White House cooperation
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

Press relations
-Vietnam
-Cambodia
-Legal right to bomb
-Thursday’s meeting
-Vietnam settlement
-Article 20
-Cambodian government’s unilateral cease-fire
-North Vietnam’s forces
-Vocational rehabilitation bill
-Veto
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Conversation No. 44-32 (cont’d)



-President’s comments on Kakuei Tanaka’s visit

Watergate
-White House response to James W. McCord, Jr.
-President’s conversation with William P. Rogers
-John D. Ehrlichman’s suggestion of President’s role in response
-President’s role
-Rogers
-Sherman Adams
-Harry S. Truman
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker
-Walter Jenkins
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Adams
-Truman
-Ervin Committee
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-McCord
-Cubans
-White House response
-Individuals’ appearance before grand jury
-Special prosecutor
-Questions at Ziegler’s briefing
-White House statement
-Grand jury
-Executive privilege
-Ervin Committee
-Cover-up
-White House statement
-Dean’s report
-McCord
-White House staff appearance before grand jury
-Need for orderly proceedings
-President’s March 29 speech
-Vietnam
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