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Conversation: 045-155

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Start Date: 2-May-1973 9:08 PM

End Date: 2-May-1973 9:10 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.

Recording Device: White House Telephone

045-155.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 9:08 pm to 9:10 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-155 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 45-155

Date: May 2, 1973
Time: 9:08 pm - 9:10 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Ziegler’s morale     

           -American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] dinner 


     Watergate       

          -Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. 

                -Ziegler’s press conference       

                       -National security       

          -Ziegler’s previous press briefing 

                -Daniel Ellsberg trial      

          -Krogh        

                -Justice Department’s knowledge       

                -President’s knowledge         

                       -Conversation with John W. Dean, III


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

     John B. Connally’s switch of party affiliation 

          -Press reaction      

          -Timing       

          -Spiro T. Agnew        


[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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     Ziegler’s previous press briefing 

           -Agnew        

           -Announcement of Domestic Council Vice Chairman 

                                               -97-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. October-2012)

                                                           Conversation No. 45-155 (cont’d)


     President’s schedule       

           -Vacation