Conversation: 045-164
Prev: 045-163 Next: 045-165Start Date: Wednesday, May 9, 1973 2:38 AM
End Date: Wednesday, May 9, 1973 2:52 AM
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 10:38 pm to 10:52 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-164 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 45-164
Date: May 8, 1973
Time: 10:38 pm - 10:52 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler
Watergate
-Administration’s counterattack
-Ziegler’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Appearance of guilt by staff members
-Spiro T. Agnew
-William Proxmire’s statement
-Mood of American people
-Timing of President’s activities after March 21, 1973
-John W. Dean, III
-Papers
-Lawyer’s comment concerning possibility of prison
-Haig
-J. Fred Buzhardt
-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Timing of administration counterattack
-Dean
-Cover-up
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Conversations
-President
-Paul L. O’Brien
-William O. Bittman
-Presidential authority
-Clemency
-President’s March 21, 1973 conversation with Dean
-Proxmire’s statement
-White House counterattack
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 45-164 (cont’d)
-Timing
-Agnew
-John B. Connally
-John G. Tower
-Ziegler, President
-Dean’s attacks on President
-Innuendos concerning Presidency
-Cabinet members
-Claude S. Brinegar
-George P. Shultz
-Brinegar
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-President’s forthcoming meeting
-Krogh
-White House counterattack
-Media
-Dean
-Congress
-Proxmire
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Leaks from White House
-Timing