919–11

Conversation No. 919-11

Date: May 16, 1973
Time: 9:54 am - 10:23 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

J. Fred Buzhardt

Watergate
-John W. Dean III’s documents

-Possible contents

-Judge’s actions

-Domestic intelligence
-Meeting in President’s office
-Adm. Noel Gayler, Richard M. Helms, and J. Edgar Hoover

President’s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
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Conversation No. 919-11 (cont’d)

President’s forthcoming meeting with John B. Connally

Connally
-Conversation with Haig and Roy L. Ash
-Views on White House staffing
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Possible resignation
-Possible resignations of appointees
-John C. Whitaker
-Dean
-Secretary of State
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Connally’s view

J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. entered at 9:59 am.

Watergate
-Dean’s documents

-Contents

-Dean’s motive

-Domestic intelligence
-Wiretap
-Operations
-Samuel J. Ervin’s possible reaction
-National Security Agency [NSA]
-Operations
-Dean
-Contacts with President
-Young lawyer’s reaction
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s testimony
-John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Dean’s activities
-Dean’s documents
-Buzhardt’s search

-Buzhardt’s efforts

-Dean’s documents

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-Telephone call
-Immunity

Buzhardt left at 10:04 am.

Haig’s conversation with Connally
-Ziegler
-Possible replacement
-Herbert G. Klein
-Haig’s motive
-Secretary of State
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Influence with Israel

Connally
-Forthcoming meeting with President
-Concern regarding economy
-Confidence
-Stock market
-Energy policy
-Wage and price policy
-Forthcoming meeting with President
-Ultimatum
-Return to Texas
-White House staff
-Secretary of State
-Conversation with Ziegler
-Views on White House staff
-William E. Timmons
-Ziegler

Ziegler
-Liability
-Press relations
-Possible replacement
-Need for President’s confidence
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Secretary of State
-Timing of change
-Forthcoming Soviet summit
-Connally and Kissinger

Connally
-Possible role in White House

White House staff
-Optimism

-Connally

-Haig, Ziegler

-President’s demeanor


Connally
-Complaints
-Intelligence
-Ambition
-Advice

Watergate
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Conversation with Haig, May 15

-Confirmation

-Special Prosecutor

-Special Prosecutor

-Possible candidates

-Warren M. Christopher

-White House strategy

-California candidate

-Haig’s forthcoming conversations

-Robert H. Finch
-California candidate
-Christopher
-Klein
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Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-Senate’s action on Cambodia

Vietnam peace negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Senate Committee
-South Vietnam
-Sovereignty
-Duration
-Congress’s actions

Congressional relations
-Commission on Federal Election Reform
-Complaints

Howard K. Smith’s call to Haig, May 15
-Possible meeting with President
-President’s response

-Timing

-Availability of President


Watergate
-Effect in Washington, DC
-Effect nationally
-Public support

-Walters’s testimony

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] cover-up

-Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]

-Secretary’s notes
-Haig’s conversation with Walters
-President’s conversation with L[ouis] Patrick Gray
-Motives

-President

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-CIA

-Dean’s actions

-Richard M. Helms’s possible actions

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Conversation No. 919-11 (cont’d)


Connally

-Meeting with Haig

-President

-Role in White House

-Encouragement

-Meeting with President

-Radio speech

-Haig


Haig left at 10:23 am.