Conversation: 046-120
Prev: 046-119 Next: 046-121Start Date: 20-May-1973 10:17 PM
End Date: 20-May-1973 10:43 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On May 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 10:17 pm to 10:43 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 046-120 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 46-120
Date: May 20, 1973
Time: 10:17 pm - 10:43 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Watergate
-White Paper
-Ziegler’s phone conversation with Bryce N. Harlow
-Deadline
-Contents
-Temper of the times
-Plumbers
-John D. Ehrlichman and Egil Krogh, Jr.
-National security
-Break-in
-Leonard Garment
-Break-in
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Desire to testify before Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s committee
-Ervin Committee
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 46-120 (cont’d)
-Garment’s view
-White House response to allegations
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Record prior to Watergate
-Compared with Joseph Welch and Joseph McCarthy
-Garment
-Ehrlichman’s and Haldeman’s view
-Briefings
-William E. Timmons
-Harlow’s views
-White Paper
-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s discussion of clemency with John W. Dean, III
-Executive privilege
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Individuals with knowledge
-Ehrlichman and Henry E. Petersen
-President
-Reaction
-Break-in
-White House reaction
-President’s knowledge and motivation
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-President’s knowledge
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Herbert W. Kalmbach concerning
money
-President’s morality
-CIA
-President’s knowledge
-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Amnesty
-President’s previous conversation with Ehrlichman
-President’s knowledge
-Krogh
-Timing of Ehrlichman’s informing President
-Timing of Dean’s knowledge
-President’s reaction
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s view
-Garment
-View of Watergate
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 46-120 (cont’d)
-Raymond K. Price, Jr. and Patrick J. Buchanan
-Buchanan
President’s schedule
-Congressional leaders’ meeting
-Harlow’s view
-Draft
-Size of meeting
-Cabinet room
-Lincoln sitting room
-Jackson
-Publicity of meeting
-National crisis
-Possible speech
-Possible press conference
-East Room
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-Congressional leaders’ meeting
-House of Representatives
-Senate
-Prisoners of War [POW] dinner
-Effect on Watergate news
-Trip to Florida
-Memorial Day
-Zeigler’s view
Watergate
-Harlow
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s conversation with Robert H. Finch
-White House response
-Fight
-Atmosphere
-Impressions
-President’s possible resignation
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Gallup poll
-Economy
-Watergate
-Foreign Policy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 46-120 (cont’d)
National economy
-Polls
-Harris poll
-Gallup poll
-President’s conversation with Haig
-George P. Shultz
-Price freeze
-Zeigler’s view
-Public relations [PR]
Watergate
-Mood of White House staff
-President’s possible resignation
-Effect on nation
-Soviet Union
-New York Times
-White House response
-Haig
-Disclosures
-Declassification
-Bay of Pigs
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-Lyndon B. Johnson-John F. Kennedy, Jr. era
-Haig’s view
-Repercussions
-Johnson’s destruction of documents
-President’s study
-Zeigler’s view
-Disclosure of information
-Joseph R. Califano and Joseph W. Alsop
-1968 campaign tactics by Johnson
-Effect on nation
-Ziegler’s mood
-White House strategy
-Spirit
-Golf
-Ping pong
-Battles
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)