Conversation: 045-162
Prev: 045-161 Next: 045-163Start Date: 8-May-1973 8:19 PM
End Date: 8-May-1973 8:27 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On May 8, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 8:19 pm to 8:27 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-162 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 45-162
Date: May 8, 1973
Time: 8:19 pm - 8:27 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Watergate
-Ziegler’s meeting with Samuel Dash, Fred D. Thompson, and Leonard Garment
-John W. Dean, III characterized
-White House involvement
-Ziegler’s knowledge concerning Watergate
-Dean’s role in investigation
-President’s activities during Watergate period
-Major issues
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 45-162 (cont’d)
-President’s desire for truth
-Dean’s role
-William Proxmire
-Statement on television [TV]
-President and Dean
-Reaction to Watergate
-Ziegler’s meeting with Dash
-Attitude toward Presidency
-President’s desire for truth
-Dean’s role
-Garment’s opinion
-Dean
-White House view
-Jack N. Anderson, New York Times, Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward
-Stories
-President’s role in cover-up
-Dean
-Papers
-Possible public testimony
-Timing of Ervin Committee appearance
-Effects
-Garment’s forthcoming meeting with [Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Dean
-Possible testimony
-Communications with Gerald L. Warren and Ziegler
-Dean’s investigation
-Possible response by Ziegler