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Start Date: 17-May-1973 3:11 PM

End Date: 17-May-1973 3:16 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Buzhardt, J. Fred, Jr.Ziegler, Ronald L.

Recording Device: White House Telephone

046-098.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 17, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 3:11 pm to 3:16 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 046-098 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 46-98

Date: May 17, 1973
Time: 3:11 pm - 3:16 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

[See also Conversation No. 438-15A]

      Watergate     

           -Huston Plan      

                -Affidavits      

                      -Donald V. Bennett      

                      -Noel Gayler      

                -Unknown person’s conversations with Bennett and Gayler
                -Buzhardt’s conversation with Tom C. Huston
                      -Affidavit
                      -Huston’s notes
                      -Indianapolis
                -Louis W. Tordella      

                      -Affidavit     

                                            -58-


                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. January-2011)

                                                              Conversation No. 46-98 (cont’d)

               -William C. Sullivan,[first name unknown] Brennan and [first name unknown]
                 Miller
                      -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
                      -Affidavits
                      -Recollections regarding implementation
               -Richard M. Helms           

                      -Affidavit      

                      -Contact      

                                  -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.      

                                  -James R. Schlesinger      

                      -Recollection        

               -[First name unknown] McManus’s role          

           -News      

               -Ervin Committee          

                      -Possible effect on trials    


The President conferred with Ronald L. Ziegler at an unknown time.

[Begin conferral]

[See Conversation No. 438-15]

[End conferral]

     Watergate     

          -News      

               -Ervin Committee        

                     -Washington Post story 

                     -Forthcoming trials


     Thomas F. Eagleton’s medical history 

         -Unknown doctor in New York 

         -Location of treatment         

               -New York         

               -Philadelphia        

               -Washington         

               -Mayo Clinic         

               -Barnes hospital         

                     -St. Louis       

               -Letter to Haig regarding alleged break-in

                                             -59-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. January-2011)

                                                                Conversation No. 46-98 (cont’d)

                      -Break-ins at the President’s doctor’s offices
                           -Medical files
                                  -Photographs        

                 -Leaks     

                 -Record