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Conversation: 165-017

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Start Date: 12-May-1973 12:31 PM

End Date: 12-May-1973 12:36 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

165-017.mp3

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