Conversation: 040-049
Prev: 040-048 Next: 040-050Start Date: 12-Jun-1973 11:03 PM
End Date: 12-Jun-1973 11:15 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On June 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 11:03 pm to 11:15 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 040-049 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 40-49
Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 11:03 pm - 11:15 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Watergate
-Maurice H. Stans
-Ervin Committee
-Testimony, June 12
-Television [TV]
-Coverage
-Ziegler’s role on staff
-Charles W. Colson
-News leads
-Elliott L. Richardson
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Washington Star
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Treatment by radio correspondents
-Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa’s note to President
-President’s request for retribution
-Ziegler’s conversation with Bob Clark, June 12
-Response
-Response
-Public opinion
-Correspondents
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-49 (cont’d)
-Compared to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
-Clark
-Public response
-Ziegler’s handling
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Interview with Phil Donahue
-Ohio
-Letters to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Questions
-President’s defense of his family
-President, Ziegler, Haig
-Ziegler’s conversation with Donahue
-White House response
-Donahue
-Nixon family
-Treatment by radio correspondents
-Bob Clark
-Intelligence
-Character
-White House response
-Helen A. Thomas’s column
-Conduct of the media
-Great Britain
President’s schedule
-Newsmen’s social events
-Gridiron Club dinner, White House Correspondents Association
-Press conferences
-Purpose
-Increased number
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Interview with Donahue
-Staff reports
-East Wing of White House
-Character
President’s schedule
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Press conference
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 40-49 (cont’d)
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Testimony, June 12
-Fifth Amendment
-Consequences
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee interview, June 15
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s response
-Possible leaks
-White House response
-Motives
-Conversations
-Ziegler and Gerald L. Warren
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III and Henry E. Petersen
-President’s meeting, March 21, 1972
-Content
-White House statement
Donahue
Press conference
Donahue
-White House response
-Funding
-Taft broadcasting
-President’s reaction
-Instructions to Ziegler