Conversation No. 937-19

Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 11:57 am - 12:36 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

      Personnel appointments and management 

           -President’s previous meeting with Roy L. Ash 

                 -Budget       

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                                                 Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)

      -National economy         

            -William E. Simon’s view           

            -Camp David         

-National economy
      -President’s forthcoming meeting
            -Arthur F. Burns’s attendance
                  -George P. Shultz        

                        -Gold        

                        -Monetary policy           

                        -Independence            

-Spiro T. Agnew
      -Telephone calls to Haig
      -Possible meeting with the President
      -Speech
      -Role in administration
            -Reorganizing        

            -Energy         

      -President’s schedule        

            -Economy          

            -Agnew        

                  -Appreciation for speech           

            -Possible meeting          

            -Economy meetings            

-Bryce N. Harlow
      -Role on White House staff 

            -Timing of announcement            

            -Haig’s forthcoming telephone call to Agnew 

-Agnew
      -President’s schedule
      -Views on economy
      -Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
      -President’s schedule
            -Possible meeting          

            -Appreciation for speech         

            -Forthcoming speech on the economy         

      -Need for President        

      -President’s schedule        

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Vietnam negotiations
     -President’s previous conversation with Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
           -Henry A. Kissinger
     -South Vietnam’s position       

           -Election      

           -Zones of control      

           -Prisoners of War [POWs]        

           -US casualties      

     -President’s role      

     -Cambodia         


Congressional relations
     -President’s possible conflicts     

           -Vietnam settlement         

           -Budget        

     -Possible vetoes        

           -Ash’s [?] strategy       

           -Views of Harlow and William E. Timmons 

           -Override        

           -President’s unwillingness to sign bills 

                 -Taxation       

                 -Education        


National economy
     -Forthcoming speech
     -Administration spokesmen
           -President’s conversation with Ash    

           -John B. Connally        

           -Congress members          

           -Pierre Rinfret      

           -Public relations [PR]       

           -President’s role      

           -Connally        

           -President’s possible radio talks   

                 -Timing for weekend newspapers         

                 -Raymond K. Price, Jr.      

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                                                          Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)

                  -Topics
                        -Economic “fireside chats”
                  -Frequency
                  -Brevity
                  -Efficacy
                        -Substance
                        -Compared to campaigning
                        -Portrayal and perception of President’s activities
                  -Location
                        -San Clemente, Camp David
                  -Shultz, Herbert Stein
                  -Cabinet

Watergate
     -Elliot L. Richardson
           -Conversations with Haig
           -Views concerning Clarence M. Kelley
                  -Leaks
                        -Washington Post
           -Haig’s conversation with Jonathan Moore
     -Personnel appointments and management
           -Appointment of Kelley and Melvin R. Laird
                  -President’s efforts
                        -Haig’s leak to Washington Star
                        -Richardson and William Ruckelshaus
     -Laird
           -Role on White House staff
                  -Effort of Haig, President, Harlow, and J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

Watergate
     -John W. Dean, III
           -Possible cross-examination
                 -Buzhardt
                 -June 15, 1973 Ervin Committee interview
                       -Harlow
                       -Dean’s testimony
                 -Fred D. Thompson
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                                                                 Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)

           -1972 campaign
                -Democrats’ finances
                     -Possible General Accounting Office [GAO] investigation

     Vietnam and Cambodia 

          -President’s possible veto of Congressional action 


Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:57 am.

     Watergate      

          -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo’s return telephone call 


Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:36 pm.

     Watergate      

          -Rebozo       

                -Kenneth Gemmill [Philadelphia lawyer]

                      -Background
                            -Dwight D. Eisenhower’s and John F. Kennedy’s administrations
                            -Spring Valley
                      -Advice concerning Howard Hughes contribution
                            -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], Internal Revenue Service
                              [IRS]
                      -Handling of Hughes contribution
                            -Possible leak to press
                            -Motive
          -Haig’s conversation with an unknown man 

                -Dean      

                -John D. Ehrlichman        

                -John N. Mitchell       

                -Ehrlichman         

                      -Dean’s forthcoming testimony        

          -Ehrlichman        

                -Statements concerning the President       

                      -Possible allegations concerning President      

                -Testimony        

          -Buzhardt’s efforts        

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-Ehrlichman
      -Conversations with Dean
            -Dean’s meeting with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters concerning Central
              Intelligence Agency [CIA] payroll
      -Conversations with President
            -Clemency offer
      -Forthcoming testimony
-Mitchell
      -Contacts with President
      -Role
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
      -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Charles W. Colson
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
      -Conversations
      -President, Rebozo
            -San Clemente house
-President’s work habits
-Ehrlichman
      -Buzhardt
-White House response
      -National economy
      -Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Dean
      -March 21, 1973 conversation with President
            -Haldeman’s forthcoming testimony
      -Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
            -White House response
                   -Buzhardt
            -Cross-examination
                   -Buzhardt’s influence
      -Forthcoming Ervin Committee interview          

            -Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.       

            -White House response         

                   -Patrick J. Buchanan, Ronald L. Ziegler, Buzhardt 

            -Cross-examination        

      -Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony           

            -Cross-examination        

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                                                 Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)

      -March 21, 1973 conversation with President 

            -President’s response to revelations      

      -Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony            

            -Cross-examination
                  -Conversations with President, Henry E. Petersen, Ehrlichman
                  -Content
                          -CIA payroll and Walters
                          -Payment
                          -Clemency
                  -Ehrlichman
                          -Petersen
            -President’s culpability
-President’s culpability
      -Popular opinion          

            -Connally’s view            

            -Credibility on Mitchell, Haldeman        

      -News magazines’ stories
            -Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, President
      -Dean’s forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Ellsberg break-in
      -Leaks       

            -E. Howard Hunt, Jr.             

            -Dean        

                  -Immunity           

      -Dean conversations           

            -President        

                  -March 1973              

            -Prosecutors          

                  -April 1973            

            -President’s responsibility, Dean’s responsibility   

      -Dean’s immunity
-Threat of blackmail by Hunt’s attorney
-Ellsberg break-in
      -Hunt
-Dean
      -Conversation with President concerning blackmail threats
      -White House response
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                                                            Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)


Haig left at 12:36 pm.