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Conversation: 045-164

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Start Date: 8-May-1973 10:38 PM

End Date: 8-May-1973 10:52 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: White House Telephone

045-164.mp3

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