Conversation: 039-037
Prev: 039-036 Next: 039-038Start Date: 3-Jun-1973 6:07 PM
End Date: 3-Jun-1973 6:36 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On June 3, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 6:07 pm to 6:36 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 039-037 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 39-37
Date: June 3, 1973
Time: 6:07 pm - 6:36 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Watergate
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s forthcoming meeting with Hugh Scott
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Press relations
-Leaks to columnists
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-John W. Dean, III
-Credibility
-Spiro T. Agnew’s possible speech
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Dean story, June 3
-President’s previous meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ziegler’s contacts with Haldeman
-Dean
-Statements concerning meetings with President
-Meetings with and calls from President
-Number and timing
-Subjects discussed
-Press conference
-President’s call on Easter
-Nature of remarks
-Ziegler
-Content
-Contacts with President
-Personal nature
-Attorney-client relationship
-Meeting, April 16
-Immunity
-President’s conversations with Henry E. Petersen
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-37 (cont’d)
-Meetings with President
-President’s orders
-Cover-up activities
-March 21
-William O. Bittman’s demand
-Haldeman
-President’s reaction
-Possible clemency
-Ziegler’s and Buzhardt’s knowledge
-Haldeman’s findings
-Dean
-Statement
-Taping of telephone calls
-White House sources
-Richard A. Moore and Leonard Garment
-Likelihood
-Files
-Copying
-Access
-Haldeman’s statements
-Ziegler’s possible telephone call to Buzhardt
-Copying
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s access
-Statements
-Effect
-Popular opinion
-Credibility
-Haldeman’s and John D. Ehrlichman’s forthcoming testimony
-White House response
-Ziegler’s meeting, June 3
-Wilson’s column
-Scott
-Possible content of leaks to press
-Files
-Access
-Copying
-Contents
-Chronologies, memoranda of conversations [memcons]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-37 (cont’d)
-Access
-Contents
-President’s meetings
-Compared with Ehrlichman, Haldeman and John N.
Mitchell
-Access
-Tenure
-Haig
-Statement
-Timing
-Ervin Committee
-White House response
-President’s meeting with Haldeman
-Meeting between President, Dean, and Haldeman, March
21
-Meetings with President
-April 16
-National security
-Number
-Attorney-client relationship
-Garment
-Telephone calls from President
-Immunity
-President’s motives
-Meetings with President
-President’s orders
-Possible testimony
-Meeting with President, March 21
-President’s reaction
-Justice Department
-Role
-Ehrlichman’s investigation
-Conversation with Petersen
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming testimony
-Haldeman’s recap
-Reaction to White House staff members
-Buzhardt and Garment
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-37 (cont’d)
-Loyalty to President
-Haig, Ziegler
-John J. Wilson
-Anti-Semitism
-White House treatment compared with Dean’s
-Access to papers
-Buzhardt, Garment
-Access to papers
-Procedures
-Possible effect of release
-Compared with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of
conversation [memcons]
-White House response
-Leaks to columnists
-Press briefings
-Ziegler’s previous conversation with Haig
-Gerald L. Warren
-Ziegler’s schedule
-Personnel appointments, Vietnam
-Ziegler’s role
-Herbert G. Klein announcement
-Changes in Ziegler’s role
-Haig’s opinon
-Melvin R. Laird, Warren
-Klein announcement
-Communications Office, Office of Press Secretary
-Ziegler’s role
-Laird announcement
-Haig’s assessment
-Dean
-Statements
-Motive
-Content
-White House response
-Chronologies
-Bipartisan Congressional leadership [?]
-Bryce N. Harlow and Laird
-White House response
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-37 (cont’d)
-Ziegler, Haig, Garment, and Buzhardt