922–7

Conversation No. 922-7

Date: May 18, 1973
Time: 10:45 am - 11:46 am
Location: Oval Office

President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haig’s schedule

-Meeting

-Briefing

-Cabinet meeting


President’s previous meeting with Robert H. Finch

Ronald L. Ziegler’s schedule

-Press briefing

-Meeting with John A. Scali

-President

-Meeting with Haig


An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:45 am.

Ziegler’s presence at meeting

-Scali


The unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:56 am.

Watergate
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Conversation No. 922-7 (cont’d)

-Ziegler’s meeting with Haig, May 17

-New York Times strategy

-President’s foreign policy


Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 10:45 am.

Watergate
-Ziegler’s schedule
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Contacts with W. Matthew Byrne
-President’s instructions
-Daniel Ellsberg case
-Richard G. Kleindienst’s recommendation
-John W. Dean III
-Dean
-Interview with Walter Cronkite, May 17
-Conversation with Ziegler regarding investigation
-[William] Stuart Symington
-Haig’s conversation with James R. Schlesinger
-White House staff’s meetings with Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-Allegations
-Dean
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Possible White House response
-Ziegler’s meeting with Haig and Buzhardt, May 17
-President’s possible role in break-in
-Symington
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-Ziegler’s meeting with Haig and Buzhardt
-President’s resignation
-Ziegler’s possible resignation
-Murray M. Chotiner’s opinion
-Dean
-Possible attacks on presidency
-Motives
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Conversation No. 922-7 (cont’d)

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Credibility

Ziegler left at 10:56 am.

Watergate
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Spiro T. Agnew
-Comparison of affidavits and Walters’s memcons
-Buzhardt
-Schlesinger’s actions
-President’s activities
-Hearsay

-Symington

-Walters’s memcons

-Effect of possible release

-Dean’s files
-President
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible access
-Haig
-Dean
-Integrity of United States Secret Service [USSS]
-Buzhardt
-George P. Shultz
-Possible contents
-Huston Plan
-Termination
-Schlesinger’s investigation of routing of report
-White House Situation Room
-Possible effect on presidency
-CIA meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-President’s motives
-Dean’s subsequent meetings with Walters
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray III
-Gray
-Possible testimony
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Conversation No. 922-7 (cont’d)

-Huston Plan
-Possible implementation
-Tom C. Huston and Dean

-Verbiage

-Possible implementation

-Huston and Dean

-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

-CIA
-Walters
-Schlesinger
-Dean’s request
-President’s role
-Richard M. Helms
-Testimony regarding knowledge of Walters’s activities
-Symington
-Dean’s request of Walters
-Helms’s reaction
-Helms
-Possible resignation
-Conversation with President
-CIA
-Dean’s request
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Walters’s memcons
-Possible release
-Haig’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-President’s role in Ehrlichman’s activities
-Executive privilege
-Memcons of conversations with President
-Buzhardt’s view
-Buzhardt
-Possible access to files of Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean
-Executive privilege
-Haldeman’s memos of meetings with President
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s papers
-Possible assault by President’s opponents

-President’s conversations with staff members

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Conversation No. 922-7 (cont’d)

-Meeting with Dean, March 21
-White House staff members’ memcons

-Possible access by Buzhardt

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Charles W. Colson

-President’s conversations with Haldeman

-Content
-President’s possible resignation
-Walters’s memcons
-President’s motive
-Memcons of President’s conversations with Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Colson
-Effect of possible release
-Ehrlichman
-Possible release of memcons
-Buzhardt’s view
-Plumbers
-President’s knowledge
-Break-in
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming meeting with Haig

-Ehrlichman

-Presidency

-Removal from White House staff

-Ehrlichman

-Possible testimony regarding meeting with Walters
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Bay of Pigs
-Mexican money
-Conversation with Haig
-Buzhardt
-Colson
-President’s possible meeting with Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Memcons of meetings with President
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson

-President’s directions

-Possible release

-Effects
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Conversation No. 922-7 (cont’d)

-Buzhardt’s view
-Executive privilege
-President’s ownership
-Possible access
-Buzhardt and Haig
-President’s knowledge
-Break-in, cover-up, clemency
-Walters’s memcons
-Ehrlichman’s memcons
-Possible release
-Telephone tapes
-Haldeman
-Advice to President regarding Buzhardt
-Meeting, March 21
-President’s schedule
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman
-Resignation from White House staff
-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Compared to Haldeman
-Possible White House response
-President’s resignation
-Effects
-White House staff members’ papers
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible access by Buzhardt
-Colson
-President’s ownership
-Dean
-President’s schedule
-Haldeman

Haig left at 11:46 am.
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