Conversation No. 937-8

Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 10:03 am - 10:25 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Watergate
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                                                         Conversation No. 937-8 (cont’d)

     -London Sunday Express article
           -Distribution       

                 -John W. Dean, III     

                 -George H. W. Bush       

                 -Congress members        

                 -Bush       

     -Press coverage       

           -London Times

     -White House staff roles 

           -Charles W. Colson        

           -Ziegler      

           -Herbert G. Klein       

                 -Ziegler’s statement     

     -London Sunday Express editorial 


Vietnam negotiations
     -Status
           -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s conversation with Ziegler
     -Popular opinion
           -Compared to December 1972
                 -Prisoners of War [POWs]        

           -Nguyen Van Thieu         

           -Henry A. Kissinger        

     -South Vietnam’s concerns          

           -Territory compared to Watergate        

     -North Vietnam


Press coverage
      -Gerald L. Warren’s press briefings
           -Subjects covered
                 -Vietnam negotiations, economy

Watergate
     -Dean
          -Immunity
                -John J. Sirica’s action
          -Ziegler’s conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
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                                                   Conversation No. 937-8 (cont’d)

            -Ervin Committee hearings
      -Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
            -Use immunity
                   -Buzhardt’s contacts with Edward W. Brooke and Barry M.
                    Goldwater, Jr.
                   -An unnamed associate of Buzhardt’s contacts with columnists
                        -Richard (“Dick”) Wilson, James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Possible perjury
-Prosecutor’s letter
-News leads
      -Spiro T. Agnew’s speech
      -President’s meeting with Kissinger, June 11, 1973
-David S. Broder’s column, June 12, 1973
      -President’s supporters
            -Melvin R. Laird, John B. Connally
-Aram Bakshian’s article in New York Times
      -Charles II of England
-London Sunday Express editorial
      -Distribution
      -Patrick J. Buchanan
      -Agnew
-Anne L. Armstrong’s press briefing, June 13, 1973
      -Subjects covered
      -Ziegler’s forthcoming telephone call
      -President’s accomplishments
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s statement concerning forthcoming Leonid I.
 Brezhnev visit
-Haig’s report on Senator’s opposition
-William E. Timmons’s efforts
      -Goldwater, Brooke, Mark O. Hatfield
-White House staff
      -Bryce N. Harlow’s forthcoming role
      -Ziegler’s role
            -Telephone calls to Hatfield, Brooke
-Ervin Committee hearings
      -Dean
            -Buzhardt
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                                                              Conversation No. 937-8 (cont’d)

                       -Cross-examination
                             -Buzhardt and Fred D. Thompson
                             -Howard H. Baker. Jr.
           -Dean’s testimony
                -White House response
                -Rogers C. B. Morton, Earl L. Butz
                -Goldwater, Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Marlow W. Cook
                       -John C. Stennis, Edward Herbert, James M. Collins [?]
           -Dean
                -Popular opinion
           -White House response
                -Bush
                -William J. Baroody, Jr. and staff
                -Elliot L. Richardson
                -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] story
           -Haig, Richardson       

           -Tone of news       

           -Buchanan’s article       

                -Distribution
           -News story concerning Archibald Cox’s staff
           -London Sunday Express editorial

     Press relations        

           -Ziegler’s schedule     

                  -Press briefings     

                        -Warren      

                  -Communications staff      

           -Harlow        

                  -Timing of announcement        


Ronald Ziegler left at 10:25 am.
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