Date: May 8, 1973
Time: 10:40 am - 10:46 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
President’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-Bipartisan Congressional leaders meeting
-Staffing announcements
-Defense Department
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Haig
-John B. Connally
-President’s talk
-Haig’s conversation with William P. Rogers
-Rogers’s assistance to administration
Elliot L. Richardson
-Confirmation
-Comments regarding [Ellsberg] break-in
-Justice Department
-New York Times
Watergate
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-7 (cont’d)
-John W. Dean, III
-Statements regarding Watergate
-Need for counterattack
-Haig
-Possible statement regarding President and funds for defendants
-Conversation with President, March 21, 1973
-Funds for defendants
-La Costa meeting
-John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ehrlichman’s comment regarding Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Richard A. Moore
-Ziegler
-President’s administration