Conversation: 164-002
Prev: 164-001 Next: 164-003Start Date: 28-Apr-1973 8:21 AM
End Date: 28-Apr-1973 8:41 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On April 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 8:21 am and 8:41 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 164-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 164-2
Date: April 28, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:21 am and 8:41 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Watergate
-Headlines
-David R. Gergen
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Daniel Ellsberg
-John D. Ehrlichman’s defense
-Robert L. Vesco
-William D. Ruckelshaus’s appointment
-Press reaction
-Ziegler’s morale
-Meeting with Raymond K. Price
-Timing of White House actions
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Comment on immunity
-Immunity
-President’s instructions to Henry E. Peterson
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 164-2 (cont’d)
-Special Prosecutor
-Grand Jury’s progress
-Prosecution of John N. Mitchell
-Jeb Stuart Magruder, Frederick C. LaRue
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-Charges of cover-up
-President’s April 17, 1973, statement
-News coverage of Gray’s resignation
-Ruckelshaus
Rose Mary Woods
-Schedule
-Camp David
-Marjorie P. Acker
Price
-Schedule
Camp David
-Tone of writing
-Drafts
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Gergen
Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Schedule
-Camp David
Watergate
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Possible resignations
-Robert J. Dole
-Grand Jury decisions
-President’s role
-Comparison with Harry S. Truman and “five-percenters”
-Administration’s actions
-Administration’s goals
-Truman
-Grand Jury indictments
-John W. Dean, III
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 164-2 (cont’d)
-Paul L. O’Brien
-Dean
-Evidence
-President’s notes on News Summary
-Haldeman
-Disposition
-Purpose
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Relationships of White House staff members
-White House staff
-Morale
-Instructions for Ronald Ziegler’s press briefings
-President’s actions
-Questioning of White House staff
-Grand Jury reports
-Leadership and responsibility
-President’s reception in Meridian, Mississippi, April 27
-Desires of American people
-National interest in Watergate
-Comparison with Truman’s administration
-Adlai E. Stevenson, III
-Actions
-Haldeman [?]