Conversation: 165-017
Prev:  165-016 Next: 165-018Start 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
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 -22- 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