Conversation No. 436-9

Date: May 14, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:10 pm and 3:51 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     Watergate     

          -William D. Ruckelshaus’s statement 

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                                                    Conversation No. 436-9 (cont’d)

-Judge John W. Dean, III’s documents
       -John J. Sirica’s actions
             -Lawrence M. Higby
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
       -Conversations
             -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson, and
               Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
       -Timing of report
-Walters
       -Senate Armed Services Committee testimony
             -Possible effects
       -Testimony compared to Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Dean
       -Possible grand jury appearance
             -Haig’s previous conversation with Buzhardt
-Forthcoming indictments
       -Jeb Stuart Magruder, John N. Mitchell and Dean
-Grand jury testimony
       -Haldeman
       -Higby
       -Ehrlichman
-Tape of Ehrlichman and Richard G. Kleindienst’s phone conversation, July 1972
       -Paper
             -Executive privilege
-Wiretaps in national security leak investigation
       -Ruckelshaus’s statement
       -Henry A. Kissinger
       -Haig
       -National security
       -Haig’s conversation with William C. Sullivan
             -Ruckelshaus
             -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files of previous wiretaps
                    -Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
                     and John F. Kennedy
                    -Lyndon B. Johnson
                          -Use of United States Secret Service [USSS] rather than FBI
       -FBI files
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                                                     Conversation No. 436-9 (cont’d)

             -Ruckelshaus          

                   -Mark W. Felt         

                          -Reliability     

       -Ruckelshaus’s statement          

             -President’s assessment       

             -Ziegler’s opinion        

       -President’s letter to J. Edgar Hoover regarding Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
             -Source of leak
             -Two letters
             -Attachment
             -Daniel Ellsberg’s associates
             -FBI leak
-FBI
     -Removal of files to White House
           -Sullivan
     -Ruckelshaus’s statement        

           -Release of names       

           -Legality       

     -Access to wiretap information    

           -Kissinger       

           -Haig        

-Wiretaps
     -William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake 

           -Knowledge          

           -Publicity        

                  -Haig’s assessment
           -Employment           

     -Morton H. Halperin and Henry Brandon 

     -FBI leaks       

     -FBI files     

-Grand jury testimony
     -Haldeman and Ehrlichman
     -Buzhardt
     -Dean
           -Immunity
           -Compared with Magruder
-Wiretaps
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                                                    Conversation No. 436-9 (cont’d)

      -National Security Council [NSC]            

      -President’s role       

      -Kissinger’s role       

            -Krogh          

            -Sullivan and Mitchell            

            -Ehrlichman          

      -Krogh
      -Ellsberg       

            -Krogh          

            -David R. Young, Jr.            

            -President’s letters to Hoover regarding Krogh 

      -Effective date of law             

            -June 1972         

            -FBI activities          

      -Lake       

      -Krogh and E. Howard Hunt, Jr. 

      -Cut-off date for FBI            

      -Ehrlichman         

-Ehrlichman
      -Grand jury testimony
            -Telephone call to Kleindienst          

                  -Tape and transcript          

                  -Buzhardt             

            -Executive privilege           

      -Dean’s documents            

            -John J. Sirica          

      -Haldeman         

      -Walters       

            -Senate Armed Services Committee testimony         

                  -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

                  -Gen. Robert E. Cushman             

                  -President            

                  -Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Dean         

-White House reaction to press stories
      -Ziegler’s
      -Ervin Committee hearings
      -Time distribution
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                                                               Conversation No. 436-9 (cont’d)

                 -Buzhardt
                 -Walters
                       -Preparation for testimony
           -Forthcoming indictments
                 -Possible effects
                       -Buzhardt and John C. Stennis
           -FBI
           -Richard M. Helms
           -Ehrlichman
                 -Forthcoming testimony
                       -National security
           -Kissinger
           -Buzhardt
                 -Role in White House
                 -Compared to Leonard Garment
           -FBI files
                 -Buzhardt, Ruckelshaus
                 -Location
                 -Mitchell’s testimony
                 -Location
                       -Ehrlichman         

           -White House response         

           -Dean       

                 -Role
                       -Mitchell
                 -Sirica’s examination of documents
                       -President’s schedule
                             -Nelson A. Rockefeller
                       -Timing
                       -Department of Justice [DOJ] employee
                       -Haig’s mood

Haig left at an unknown time before 3:51 pm.
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