Conversation No. 914-6

Date: May 9, 1973
Time: 9:11 am - 9:34 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

     Ziegler’s previous meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. 

           -News briefing      


     White House staff meeting 

          -Spark       

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                                       Tape Subject Log 

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                                                                Conversation No. 914-6 (cont’d)

     Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting
           -Patrick J. Buchanan, Leonard Garment, Haig, and J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. [?]
           -Announcement
                 -Presidential appointments

     Watergate
          -Spiro T. Agnew        

                -Statement on Watergate          

                -McCarthyism

                -William Proxmire        

          -Popular reaction       

          -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s comment 

          -President’s possible comments           

          -John W. Dean, III 

                -Lawyer’s meetings
                -Possible immunity        

          -Maurice H. Stans, money, and Donald H. Segretti 

          -Dean       

                -Possible attack on the President 

                      -Possible counterattack        

                -Documents          

                      -Possible content        

                -Conversation with the President        

                -Documents          

                      -Possible release by White House      

                -White House strategy        

                      -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.         


[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared for Special Access 57,
Harry R. Haldeman v. Rowland G. Freeman, III, et al.,United States District Court for the
District of Columbia, Civil Action No. 80-3250, pages 1-2. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.
 Please refer to the logging below.]

     Watergate     

          -Executive privilege  

               -Memoranda of conversations [Memcons]             

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                         Tape Subject Log
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                                                 Conversation No. 914-6 (cont’d)

      -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman          

      -Garment        

      -White House staff meeting notes 

            -President’s previous conversation with Haldeman
            -Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson administration
            -Henry A. Kissinger
            -Ziegler
-President’s previous conversation with Haldeman
-President’s meeting with Dean, September 15, 1972
      -Rate delay [?]
      -Haldeman
      -Grand jury indictments
      -President’s previous meeting with Ziegler
            -Kissinger      

      -President’s thought process       

      -Haldeman’s memory

-Dean’s investigation regarding White House involvement
-President’s conversation with Haldeman regarding White House involvement
      -John D. Ehrlichman [?]
      -Dean’s statement, March 15, 1973
      -John N. Mitchell
-Dean’s possible testimony
-President’s knowledge and action
-President’s meeting with Dean, March 21, 1973
      -Blackmail
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
      -Release of information to trial
            -President’s meeting with Henry E. Petersen
-President’s meeting with Petersen
      -E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s interrogation
      -Ellsberg break-in
      -Ziegler’s forthcoming call to Petersen
      -President’s subsequent meeting with Richard G. Kleindienst
            -Informing judge
-Ellsberg break-in
      -Camera
            -Possession
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                          Tape Subject Log 

                                        (rev. December-2011)

                                                               Conversation No. 914-6 (cont’d)

                               -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
                               -Justice Department
                  -President’s conversation with Petersen
                         -Hunt       

                               -National security      

                               -Pentagon Papers       

                  -New York Times story
                  -Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing      

            -Ellsberg case       

            -President’s cooperation        

                  -Justice Department
                  -National security
                  -Hunt
                  -Ellsberg case
                  -President’s meeting with Petersen concerning break-in
                  -Justice Department
                  -President’s conversation with Kleindienst
                         -Photograph        

                               -CIA       

                  -Ziegler’s forthcoming call to Petersen 


Ziegler left at 9:34 am