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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 441-1

Date: June 4, 1973 Time: 8:51 am - 8:52 am Location: Executive Office Building

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 39-54]


Date: June 4, 1973 Time: 8:53 - 9:05 am Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig.

Economic paper -Length

-Herbert Stein -Haig’s recommendation

Watergate -John W. Dean, III

-Files -Combinations -J. Fred Buzhardt’s examination

-Conversation with Buzhardt, June 2, 1973 -Personal papers -Possible allegations -White House tapes

-President’s possible review of conversations with Dean -White House response -Dean’s materials

-President’s possible meeting with Buzhardt and Haig -Dean

Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

EOB #441

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Conversation No. 441-2 (cont’d)

-Meetings with President -President’s motives -White House tapes -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Secret Service -Haldeman’s review -Stephen B. Bull

Haig talked with the White House operator and then Bull at an unknown time between 8:53 am and 9:05 am.

[Conversation No. 441-2A]

[Begin telephone conversation]


[End telephone conversation]

White House tapes -Haldeman’s review

-Location of President’s review -Secret Service

Watergate -Dean’s files -Buzhardt’s forthcoming examination -Combinations

-Dean -March 21, 1973 meeting with President

-Status -A press conference

Haig left at 9:05 am

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Date: June 4, 1973 Time: Unknown between 9:05 am and 9:11 am Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.




The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.




The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Economic paper -Forthcoming meeting with economic policy analysts

-Unreadiness

President’s schedule -Economic meeting -Postponement -George P. Shultz’s schedule

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-European Trip -Review of White House tapes

-President’s demeanor

Economic paper -John B. Connally -Camp David -Presentation of program -Herbert Stein

-Analysis -Thirty-day freeze -Possible effect -Public relations -Shultz -Gas tax

-Freeze -Energy

-Discussions -President’s schedule -Economic meeting

Watergate -J. Fred Buzhardt’s examination of John Dean, III’s files



The President talked with the White House operator.


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Melvin R. Laird -William J. Baroody, Jr.’s report

-Veracity -Meeting with Haig

Haig’s schedule -Laird report

-Truthfulness

Watergate

President’s schedule -Economic meeting -Program agenda

Economic package -Freeze

-Gas tax -Energy

-Separate proposal

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The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

White House tapes -President’s review of conversations with John W. Dean, III

-February 27th and 28th 1973 -System

-Secrecy -President’s review

-Purpose -Possible transcription

-February 27th and 28th 1973 -Time of meeting with Dean -Bull’s role in playing -Machine functions -Bull’s role in playing

The President played a recording of a portion of his meeting with Dean.

[A transcript of the recorded conversation was initially prepared for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) and can be found in Record Group (RG) 460, Box 172, “Transcript of a Recording of a Meeting between the President and John Dean on February 28, 1973 from 9:12 to 10:23 a.m.,” pages 1-48; Statement of Information, Book III - Part 1, pages 617-687 (1-71); Statement of Information, Book VII - Part 4, pages 1751-1754 (43-46); and Statement of Information, Book VII - Part 4, pages 1780-1782 (59-61). The Nixon Presidential Materials Staff has reviewed the transcript and has made changes as necessary. This transcript has been reviewed under the provisions of the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act of 1974 (PRMPA). The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[A transcript of the recorded conversation was also prepared Richard Nixon’s Special White House Counsel for Watergate Matters and submitted to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. This transcript can be found in Submission of Recorded Presidential

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Conversations (SRPC), pages 76-110 (1-35). Please refer to the RG 460 transcript.]

[See also Conversation No. 865-14]

[Begin transcribed portion]

[Unintelligible]

Executive privilege

John D. Ehrlichman

[End transcribed portion]

The President stopped the recording.

[Resume transcribed portion]

Playing of White House tapes


Bull left at an unknown time before 10:16 am.

The President resumed playing the recording.


[Unintelligible]

Richard G. Kleindienst

Executive privilege -Kleindienst

[Unintelligible]

Watergate -Howard J. Baker, Jr. -Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.

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-Ervin Committee -Information

-Dean, Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Investigation

-President’s cooperation -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] inquiry -John N. Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-Maurice H. Stans -Possible grand jury testimony

-Charles W. Colson, Haldeman -Funds

-Donors -Robert L. Vesco -President’s brother -Popular opinion -Stans -A libel suit -Larry O’Brien

-Conversation between Dean and an unknown man -Stans

-O’Brien’s statement -Colson

-Threat of lawsuit -Roland Evans and Robert Novak

-Baker -Relations with William Timmons

-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. -L[ouis]. Patrick Gray, III

-Gray -Relationship with President

-Compared to President’s relationship with J. Edgar Hoover -FBI investigation -Hoover’s running FBI -Henry Petersen

-Colson -Campaign finances

-General Accounting Office [GAO] audit of George S. McGovern -Colson

-Possible activities -Kleindienst

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-Interrogatories

Whistle blowers -Dean’s conversations with an unknown man

-Role

[Unintelligible]

Watergate -Ervin Committee

-Hearings -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy’s role

-Herbert Kalmbach -Samuel Dash -Bugging by FBI -Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy -President’s place in 1968 -Hoover’s conversation with Patrick Coyne

-Coyne’s subsequent conversation with Nelson Rockefeller -Rockefeller’s subsequent conversation with Henry A. Kissinger

-Records -W. Mark Felt -Hoover’s conversation with President

-Hoover’s conversation with John N. Mitchell -National Security Council [NSC] - FBI memorandum

-Dick Whelan -Anna Chennault -Spiro T. Agnew’s plane -Dean’s conversation with Mitchell -Cartha D. DeLoach

-Coyne

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [National security] [Duration: 1 m 10 s ]

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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The President turned off the recording at an unknown time before 11:19 am.

Bull [?] entered at an unknown time after 10:16 am.


White House tape

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.


Bull [?] left at an unkown time before 11:19 am.


Date: June 5, 1973 Time: Unknown between 1:07 pm and 1:12 pm Location: Executive Office Building


[See Conversation 39-88]

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Date: June 5, 1973 Time: 1:12 pm and 1:16 pm Location: Executive Office Building








Date: June 5, 1973 Time: 1:22 pm - 1:36 pm Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.


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The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Food order

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift] *****************************************************************





Food delivery


Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:40 pm.

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Refreshments






Staplers [?]

Folder -Report [?] -Tab -Missing section

President’s forthcoming speech [?]

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President’s schedule -Cabinet meeting -Melvin R. Laird -Clarence M. Kelly

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] candidate -Republican policy committee -Free time -Laird [?]

David C. Hoopes entered at 2:41 pm.

Stapler

Hoopes left at 2:42 pm.

President’s schedule -Cabinet meeting -Republican Congressional leadership -Cabinet meeting -Trip to Florida -Florida Technical University -Commencement address -Baccalaureate program

-Architecture -Radio speech -Commencement address -Timing

-Cabinet -Congressional leaders -Speech editing

White House tapes -Custody

-Security -Access

-Restrictions -Bull’s access

Bull left at 2:44 pm.

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An unknown woman and an unknown man met.

Refreshments


The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 5:21 pm.





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The President talked with Gerald R. Ford.










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The President talked with William E. Timmons.




The President met with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

Watergate -Charles A. Wright’s paper on executive privilege

-Hugh Scott -Buzhardt’s efforts -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Leonard Garment -President’s activities -John B. Connally’s view

-Firing of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman -Popular opinion -Connally’s view -President’s activities -Executive privilege -Wright’s paper -Aaron Burr case -John Marshall -James St. D. Clair expedition -Thomas Jefferson -Papers -Marshall’s ruling

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-President’s possible role -National interest

-John W. Dean, III -Files -Relevancy to Watergate -Charles W. Colson

-Conversation with Buzhardt and Colson’s attorney -Executive privilege -Files -National security -Plumbers

-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s notes -Procedures

-Possible subpoena -Possible response -Supreme Court

-Procedures -Contents

-Haldeman’s notes -John J. Sirica

Smoking -Buzhardt -President

Melvin R. Laird -Cigars

-Role on White House staff -Strength

Watergate -Executive privilege -Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s notes

-Procedures -Wright’s paper -Blanket subpoenas

-Subpoenas of May 25, 1973 -Buzhardt -National Archives and Records Service

-Earl J. Silbert

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-Subpoenas -Specificity

-Committee’s records -Tapes from Haldeman and Ehrlichman -Colson

-Tapes -Howard K. Smith -Forthcoming interview with Smith

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Colson -Possible television appearance

-John L. McClellan Committee testimony -Contradictions

-Buzhardt’s conversations with Frank H. Strickler and John Wilson -Ehrlichman’s statements -Counsel’s work -Mexican money -Conversations with President

-Meeting with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters and L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-John N. Mitchell, Haldeman -Ehrlichman -Conflicting testimony -Reasons -Richard A. Moore -Conversation with Buzhardt -Possible memorandum

-March 19, 1973 meeting with President and Dean -March 14, 15-20, 1973 meetings with President and Dean

-Meetings with Dean -Quality as witness

-President’s conversations with Dean before March 21, 1973 -Cover-up

-Dean -Role -Gray hearings -Haldeman and Ehrlichman’s activities -Ervin Committee -Executive privilege -Gray nomination

-March 14, 15, 1973 meetings with President and Moore

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-Patrick J. Buchanan’s preparation of questions and answers book for press conference

-Executive privilege -Supreme Court -Alger Hiss case -Executive privilege, Hiss case

-White House, Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], Justice Department

-March 19, 1973 meeting with President and Moore -March 20, 1973 meeting with President and Moore

-White House response -FBI -Use by Lyndon B. Johnson -Meetings with President -White House staff involvement -Gordon C. Strachan -Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-Strachan -Testimony -Haldeman -Lie detector tests -Jeb Stuart Magruder -Henry E. Petersen -Results -Samuel Dash

-Possible subpoena of President’s logs by Ervin Committee concerning meetings with Dean

-Garment -White House response -Motive -Dean

-Possible subpoena of President’s logs -White House response -Archibald Cox -Possible subpoena -White House response -Specificity -Dean’s files

-Custody -Secret Service

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-FBI -Dean

-Meetings with President -Petersen

-Strachan -Break-in of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office

-President’s response to information -Contacts with Petersen and Richard G. Kleindienst

-Ellsberg break-in -President’s knowledge -Ehrlichman

-Dean -Meeting April 16, 1973 with President

-Resignation -Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-President’s April 15, 1973 meeting with Kleindienst and Petersen -Resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman, Magruder’s testimony -President’s April 16, 1973 meeting with Dean

-Resignation -Dean

-President’s conversation with Petersen, April 16, 1973 -President’s conversation with Petersen, April 29, 1973

-Petersen -Possible blackmail by Dean

-Gray -FBI inquiry -Dean’s comments to President

-Dean -Conversations with President

-Strachan -Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman -Haldeman and $320,000 -Ehrlichman and Herbert W. Kalmbach -Haldeman

-Money -Order from Dean -Ehrlichman

-Order to Kalmbach concerning money for defendants -Angela Y. Davis -Ehrlichman and Haldeman

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-Motives concerning funds for defendants -Dean

-Conversations with President -March 22, 1973 with Haldeman and Mitchell

-Mitchell’s position -President’s desire for full disclosure -Ehrlichman, Dean -President’s call from Florida -Dean’s subsequent trip to Camp David -James McCord

-$1,000,000 -March 21, 1973 meeting -Call from Florida -Ronald L. Ziegler

-Buzhardt -Role on intelligence evaluation committee

-Robert F. Frohlke -Dean

-March 21, 1973 meeting with President -Funds for defendants -Clemency offer

-March 22, 1973 meeting with President, Haldeman and Ehrlichman -Mitchell -March 21, 1973 meeting with President

-Clemency offer -Subornation of perjury -Funds for defendants -Blackmail -William O. Bittman -President’s knowledge -White House staff procedures

-Dean -Conversations with President -Content -Ervin Committee -March 21, 1973 -President’s response -Investigations by Dean and Ehrlichman

-Possible White House response to testimony -Testimony of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Moore

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-President’s possible statement -Connally’s view -President’s possible testimony -Ervin Committee -Grand jury

-Precedent -Andrew Johnson -Possible White House response -White House response -Gerald L. Warren -Legal questions

-Dean -President’s call from Florida -Dean’s subsequent call to Ziegler -Dean’s possible pleading

-Petersen -Advice to President

-E. Howard Hunt, Jr. break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office -National security

-Meeting with President and Kleindienst -Ellsberg information to William M. Byrne, Jr.

-President’s activities, April 15 - April 30, 1973 -Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Dean

-Resignations of Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean -Dean

-Meeting with Buzhardt, June 3, 1973 -Logs

-Possible release to Dash -Conversations with President -Lawyer’s story -Timing -Possible immunity -Conversations with President -Seymour M. Hersh’s story

-Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s story -September 15, 1972 -Indictments of defendants -Haldeman’s notes

-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] investigation of Larry F. O’Brien and Howard Hughes

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-Campaign tactics -Dean’s efforts -Haldeman -Signing of President’s will -Memorandum to Haldeman -Organization of Counsel’s office -Frederic V. Malek’s study -1972 campaign -Haldeman’s response -Role in 1972 campaign -Financing law -Fred F. Fielding’s work -Documents in lock box

-Buzhard’s efforts -Meeting with Buzhardt, June 2, 1973

-Paycheck -Staff members’ files -Location -Archives

-Certificate -Dean’s files -Certification -Contacts with Buzhardt

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INTELLIGENCE


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Watergate -Dean

-Meeting with Buzhardt, June 2, 1973 -Dean’s possible testimony -Files -Files -Return of personal materials

-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] investigation -Robert Vesco -ITT investigation

-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] -Removal of boxes to Justice Department

-Vesco -Buzhardt’s forthcoming conversations -Ralph E. Erickson, Justice Department -William J. Casey -Erickson -William Rehnquist

-Removal of boxes to Justice Department -Casey

-Vesco -Possible White House response

-Backgrounders -Woodward and Bernstein -Buzhardt’s conversations with Woodward

-Washington Post -Forthcoming trials -Possible Dean testimony -Outcome

-Interest -Possible motions -Effect

-Mitchell, Magruder, Frederick D. LaRue -LaRue -Funds for defendants -Testimony

-Dean -Meeting with Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Monroe in California, February 1973

-Wiretaps

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-Robert C. Mardian’s testimony -Meeting with President in 1971 in San Clemente

-William C. Sullivan’s view -President’s instructions to Mardian -Wiretap log -Ziegler’s statement -President’s recollection -Ehrlichman

-Buzhardt’s conversation with Mardian and his lawyer -Ellsberg case -Ehrlichman’s call to Mardian -Mardian’s statement

-Sullivan -President’s instructions

-Mardian’s conversations concerning visit to San Clemente -Ellsberg case

-Meeting with President, Haldeman, Ehrlichman -Wire service leads -Scott’s statement -Johnson’s John F. Kennedy’s wiretaps

Johnny Mathis -President’s assessment -Buzhardt’s assessment

Watergate -White House response

Buzhardt’s schedule

Watergate -White House response -Ervin Committee, Cox -President as defendant

-Dean -Statements -Immunity

-Senate -Forthcoming indictment -Cox vs. Dash

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-Dean -Use immunity -Possible indictment

-Cox -Blanket indictments -Possible effect -Possible trials -Dean -Haldeman and Ehrlichman -Possible indictments -Possible indictments -Mitchell, Magruder -Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.

-Strachan -Sally Harmony -G[eorge] Gordon Liddy

-Colson -Kalmbach -Kalmbach -Funds for defendants -Expectation of indictments -Thomas A. Pappas -Funds for defendants

-Mitchell -Mitchell’s possible testimony

-President’s March 21, 1973 conversation with Dean -Mitchell

-Pappas -Intent

-Mitchell -Conflict between self-interest and animosity

-Mitchell -Ehrlichman, Haldeman

-Mitchell -Role in bugging and cover-up -Dean’s subornation of Magruder’s perjury

-Pappas’s fund-raising -President’s March 21, 1973 meeting with Dean

-President’s relations with Pappas -Fundraising efforts

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-Maurice H. Stans -Dean

-Possible statements -Effect -Conversations with President -White House response -Credibility of Dean -Conversations with President -Lawyers’ efforts -Woodward’s and Hirsh’s efforts -Timing -Log for January 1973

-Requests for March 1973 and April 1973 logs -Possession of logs

-April 19, 1973 request of Jack Nessitt

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:29 pm.

President’s schedule


Watergate -Dean

-Meetings with President -Kleindienst’s impression -Buzhardt’s impression -Statements to lawyers -Charles N. Shaffer -Lawyers’ actions -Possible immunity -Cox -Prosecutors’ view

-March 21, 1973 meeting with President and Haldeman -President’s methodology -Ehrlichman -Funds for defendants -Haldeman -Amnesty, clemency, funds for defendants -Dean’s possible statements

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-Bittman -Possible subpoena of President’s papers

-White House response -Cox and Dash -White House response -Dean’s meetings with President -Logs -Dates -Haldeman

-Buzhardt’s possible call to Dash

Buzhardt left at 7:14 pm.






Date: June 7, 1973 Time: 1:35 pm Location: Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.


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[See Conversation No. 39-132



The President talked with Gerald Warren.



Date: June 7, 1973 Time: Unknown before 1:48 pm and 1:52 pm Location: Executive Office Building


President’s schedule -Remarks for June 8, 1973

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Background information -Bull -Cabinet meetings -Congress members’ attendance -Gerald R. Ford

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-William E. Timmons’s viewpoint -Melvin R. Laird’s role -Republican leaders

-Restrictions -Discussions -Henry E. Petersen -Ford -George H. W. Bush -Congressional leaders

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:52 pm.

Date: June 7, 1973 Time: Unknown between 1:52 and 1:57 pm Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

President’s schedule -Meeting

-Time -Preparation

The unknown man left.






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Date: June 7, 1973 Time: 1:57 pm - 1:58 p.m. Location: Executive Office Building







Refreshments



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The President met with David C. Hoopes.

President’s schedule -Telephone call -Charles W. Colson [?]

Hoopes left at 3:32pm.


Date: June 7, 1973 Time: 3:48 pm Location: Executive Office Building





The President met with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

Watergate -Richard A. Moore

-Meeting with his attorney and Buzhardt, June 7, 1973 -Moore’s forthcoming testimony

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-Effect on John W. Dean, III -Forthcoming interview with Ervin Committee staff, June 8, 1973

-Dean -President’s conversation with Charles W. Colson

-Earl J. Silbert and Seymour Glanzer -Silbert’s relationship with Colson’s attorney

-President’s conversations with Colson and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Buzhardt’s conversations with attorneys

-Colson -Dean

-Statements -Immunity

-Buzhardt’s conversation with Jack Miller, Moore’s attorney -Miller’s relationship with Charles N. Shaffer

-Immunity -Archibald Cox’s motion before Judge John Sirica

-Jeb Stuart Magruder and Dean -Radio and Television coverage of hearings -Immunity -Timing of decision -Cox, Sirica, Miller

-Transactional -Lawyer’s statement -Cox -Cox’s goals -White House response

-Testimony by Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Moore, and Henry E. Petersen -President’s recollections of meetings

-Tapes, dictabelts -Petersen

-Haldeman -Deposition

-President’s April 15, 1973 phone call -President’s knowledge

-Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist break-in -Dean’s March 1973 conversation with President -E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s possible statement

-Petersen’s memorandum -Dean’s conversation with President

-Dean

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-March 13, 1973 conversation with President -March 22, 1973 calls from President

-Key Biscayne -Record -Haldeman

-March 22, 1973 conversation with Dean -Deposition concerning conversations with the President and Dean

-Dean -Petersen -March 21, 1973 conversation with the President and Haldeman

-Funds for defendants, clemency offer -William O. Bittman -Ehrlichman, Haldeman -Conversations with Petersen

-Petersen -Conversation with President

-President’s March 21, 1973 conversation with Dean -Bittman -Timing -Haldeman

-Deposition -President’s conversation with L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-Destruction of documents -Ehrlichman

-Petersen -Conversation with President -Resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Dean -Conversation with President

-Resignation -President’s subsequent conversation with Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Ehrlichman’s call to Gray -Possible Petersen call to Gray -Destruction of documents -Ehrlichman’s response

-Gray’s subsequent conversation with Petersen -Destruction of documents

-Petersen -Dean

-Dean

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-Possible assumptions concerning President’s knowledge -President’s desire for full disclosure

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman -Dean’s statement -Dean’s memorandum to Haldeman -Donald H. Segretti -Cover-up, funds

-Petersen -Conversation with President -Gray, Ehrlichman

-Gray -Testimony concerning destruction of documents

-Withdrawal of nomination -Timing -Possible discussions with Haldeman and Ehrlichman -President’s role -Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s resignation -Destruction of documents -Petersen and Richard G. Kleindienst -Withdrawal of nomination -Timing -Procedures -William E. Timmons -James O. Eastland -Timmons’s contacts with Committee -Unnamed Senators -Content of documents destroyed -President’s knowledge -Dean’s knowledge -Hunt’s knowledge -Fred F. Fieldings knowledge

-Fielding -Role on White House staff

-Dean -Gray

-Ehrlichman’s orders concerning documents -William J. Casey

-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] -Records moved to Justice Department -Robert L. Vesco

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-Buzhardt’s conversation with Ralph Erickson, June 6, 1973 -Erickson’s testimony, June 6, 1973

-ITT -Records moved to Justice Department

-Dean -Casey

-Harley O. Staggers -Content

-Release -Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] -Spiro T. Agnew -Erickson’s contacts with Casey -Dean’s role -Casey’s statement concerning Dean -Erickson -G. Bradford Cook -Staggers’s investigation -Ervin Committee’s awareness -Records -Casey’s testimony -Effect -Erickson -Casey -Antitrust case

-Casey -Conversations

-Leonard Garment -Forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt -Erickson -Documents moved to Justice Department -Content -Anti-trust case -Ralph W. McLaren -White House role -President’s conversations with Kleindienst and John

N. Mitchell -Prospectus, SEC

-Petersen -Conversation with President

-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.

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-Testimony, June 7, 1973 -Sloan’s conversations with Ehrlichman and Dwight L. Chapin

-Motives of participants -Buzhardt’s dealings with John L. McClellan

-Social Service Council -An unknown case

-Harry Truman’s investigation after World War II -Avoidance of headlines

-Petersen -Motives -Meeting with President -Resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman -Conversation with President -Dean’s visit to prosecutors -Ehrlichman’s investigation -Ehrlichman’s notes

-Dean -Visit to prosecutor, April 6, 1973

-Ehrlichman’s knowledge -Petersen

-Contacts with President in April 1973 -Hunt and national security

-Ellsberg papers to William M. Byrne, Jr. -Appointment of Cox

-Dean -Logs in possession -President’s logs

-Samuel Dash’s conversation with Buzhardt -Cox’s request

-Dean’s possible statement under oath -Effects -Dash, Cox -Press

[Tape recording system malfunction: 3 seconds]

Watergate -Dean

-Meetings with President -President’s recollection

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-Records -Questions to Gerald L. Warren -White House response -Possible information to Cox and Dash -Dean’s knowledge -Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s notes -Shaffer’s conversation with Miller -Dean’s concern -Ehrlichman, Haldeman -Moore -Possible testimony

-Buzhardt’s meeting with Miller and Moore -Records

-Meetings with President and Moore -Moore’s recollection

-Buzhardt’s meeting with Miller and Moore -Moore’s testimony -Conversations with Moore -Dean’s culpability -Dates -Hunt’s attempted blackmail of Ehrlichman -Ellsberg case

-Compared to Dean’s conversations with President -Dean’s forthcoming meeting with President, March 21, 1973

-Conversations with President -Ellsberg break-in -Bittman’s alleged blackmail concerning Hunt


Watergate -Dean

-Conversations with President -March 21, 1973 -Content -Haldeman -March 22, 1973

-James W. McCord, Jr.’s letter to Sirica -Hunt’s involvement -White House response

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-Chronology -March calendar -March 1973 phone calls -Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Ronald L. Zeigler -March 23, 1973 phone calls -Camp David -Buzhardt’s forthcoming chronology

-President’s meetings with Dean -White House strategy -Discussion items -Colson and Chapin -Roles as White House consultants


Watergate -President’s meetings with Dean

-Discussion items -Moore’s recollection

-Investigation -Gray

-Dean’s March 20, 1973 letter under oath -Veracity Dean’s letter -Sloan -Magruder -Gordon C. Strachan, Haldeman -Strachan -President’s subsequent conversation with Haldeman

-Magruder -Possible testimony

-Strachan -Haldeman’s telephone tape

-Strachan -Statements concerning individuals’ knowledge -Haldeman, Ehrlichman and President

-President’s access to Democratic National Convention [DNC] bugging information -Magruder

-Statements concerning individuals’ knowledge -Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward and Carl Bernstein

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-White House staff involvement -Dean’s statements to President -Haldeman and Ehrlichman and Strachan

-Dean -Role

-March 21, 1973 conversation with President -March 17, 1973 conversation with President

-White House staff involvement -Dean’s conversation with G[eorge] Gordon Liddy, June 1972

-Strachan


Watergate -Ervin Committee hearings -Date of Dean’s testimony -Possible cross-examination of witnesses -Fred D. Thompson

-Dean -March 20, 1973 conversation with President

-President’s statement, June 6, 1973 -Melvin R. Laird

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s retirement from the military -Effect

-President’s conversation with Laird, June 6, 1973 -Laird

-Conversations with Buzhardt -Dean

-March 21, 1973 conversation with President -President’s response -Popular opinion

-Casey -Possible White House response -Forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt

-Mitchell -ITT

-Antitrust case -President’s conversation with Kleindienst

-Compared to International Business Machines [IBM] case -Elliot L. Richardson

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-Prospects -President’s role -Ehrlichman

-McLaren -Dean

-Use immunity -Attorney -Possible testimony -Effect on future trials -Attacks on President -Howard H. Baker, Jr. -Motive -Transactional immunity -Perjury White House strategy -President’s possible evidence against

-Miller -Moore’s attorney

-Background -John F. Kennedy administration -Conversations with Charles Shaffer -President’s possible evidence against Dean -Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Depositions -Dean conversations

-Buzhardt’s conversation with Frank H. Strickler

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Watergate

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-Grand jury -Mandate

-Cox’s view -Silbert’s actions

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Watergate -President’s notes -White House response -Counsel’s team -Thomas A. Pappas

-President’s March 21, 1973 conversation with Dean -Fund-raising

-Mitchell -Motive

-Mitchell -Possible testimony

-Vesco -Perjury

South Carolina Parole Board -Repentance

-A minister -Statements of a client of Buzhardt’s

-Guilt -Family honor

Watergate -Mitchell

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-Possible prison term -Vesco

-Attorney -Attorney General from Warren G. Harding’s administration

-Harry Daugherty -Martha Mitchell

-Pappas -Buzhardt’s forthcoming inquiries -Grand jury, Ervin Committee -Mitchell, President -Kalmbach -Role

-Pappas -Buzhardt’s forthcoming inquiry

-Location -Dean’s possible testimony

-John B. Connally’s view -Popular opinion concerning the President’s role

-President’s knowledge -Conversations with staff members -Dean, Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman -Involvement

-Credibility -Popular opinion -Media efforts -White House response -Possible testimony

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Moore, Petersen, and Colson -Petersen -Dean

-Possible investigations -Silbert, Petersen -Silbert’s thoroughness

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] inquiry -Opinions of Gray and Kleindienst

-Ehrlichman -President’s meeting with Gray

-W. Mark Felt -Watergate investigation

-Gray

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-Nominated -Dean’s view -Ehrlichman, Haldeman

-Conversation with President, June 1972 -Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters -Possible conversation with Dean -Feelings concerning Mitchell

-Dean -Motives

-Mitchell -Knowledge of Magruder’s perjury

-Mitchell -Gray

-FBI investigation -Mitchell

-Actions concerning accused individuals -President’s administration characterized -Haldeman, Ehrlichman -Bobby Baker -Buzhardt’s acquaintance -Mrs. Buzhardt -Previous administrations -President’s administration -Future of President’s administration

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:53 pm.

President’s schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.

Watergate -Criminal conduct -Effect on administration

-News leads for weekend -Henry A. Kissinger

-New York Times -Documents -Additional burglaries -Plumbers

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-Justice Department -Plumbers

-Activities -Ehrlichman

-News leads for weekend -Anthony T. Ulasewicz -Ehrlichman’s employee -Super-spy rumor

-Robert S. Strauss’s claims concerning break-in of house -Break-in at President’s physician’s office

-Daniel Schorr’s claims concerning break-in of house -Seymour Hirsh

-Investigation -Break-in

-1972 campaign -George S. McGovern’s finances

-Violence -San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles

-Colson’s possible testimony -Ehrlichman

Buzhardt left at 5:30 p.m.