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Conversation: 046-111

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Start Date: 17-May-1973 8:07 PM

End Date: 17-May-1973 8:17 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: White House Telephone

046-111.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 17, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 8:07 pm to 8:17 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 046-111 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 46-111

Date: May 17, 1973
Time: 8:07 pm - 8:17 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Watergate      

          -Ervin Committee        

                -Testimony       

                      -Bruce A. Kehrli and Robert C. Odle, Jr. 


The President conferred with Julie Nixon Eisenhower at an unknown time.


[Begin conferral]


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

     Greetings

     President’s schedule
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


                                   Tape Subject Log 

                                  (rev. January-2011)

                                                        Conversation No. 46-111 (cont’d)


[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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[End conferral]

     Watergate      

          -Ervin Committee         

                -Popular interest      

                      -Nielsen ratings       

          -White House staff changes 

                -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman 

                -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Ziegler        

          -Ervin Committee
                -Popular reaction
                -White House reaction to Watergate
                -Opinions of [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                -White House reaction
                      -Ziegler, Haig, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. and Leonard Garment
                      -Unknown New York doctor
                -Popular support for the President       

                      -Effect of hearings       

                      -President’s public appearances

                -White House reaction
                      -John W. Dean, III’s appearance on Walter Cronkite’s show
                -Popular support for the President
                -White House reaction
                -Dean, James W. McCord, Jeb Stuart Magruder and G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
                      -Possible effect on the presidency

                -Compared with 1972 campaign