Conversation: 165-017
Prev: 165-016 Next: 165-018Start Date: Saturday, May 12, 1973 4:31 PM
End Date: Saturday, May 12, 1973 4:36 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On May 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone at Camp David from 12:31 pm to 12:36 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 165-017 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 165-17
Date: May 12, 1973
Time: 12:31 pm - 12:36 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing
-President’s conversation with Kissinger
-Lead news stories
-Meeting with Ziegler
-News wires
-Soviet summit
-Watergate
-[Wiretaps]
-National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Memorandums
Watergate
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Ziegler’s attempts to locate
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press statement
-President’s contact with Gray
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-President’s alleged role in cover-up
-Timing
Lead news stories
-Forthcoming Soviet summit
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Trade
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-17 (cont’d)
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Le Duc Tho
-Cambodia
Watergate
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Wiretaps
Commission on Election Reform
-William E. Timmons’s possible calls to Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford
-Scott, Ford and George H. W. Bush
-John C. Stennis’s possible reaction
-Buzhardt\
-Leonard Garment
-Structure of commission
-Campaign financing
-Lead news stories
-Washington Star
Watergate
-Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Buzhardt’s attempts to contact Gray
-Leaks