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Start Date: 13-May-1973 10:09 AM

End Date: 13-May-1973 10:20 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

165-036.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:09 am to 10:20 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 165-036 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 165-36

Date: May 13, 1973
Time: 10:09 am - 10:20 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Press coverage       

           -Soviet summit       

                 -Washington Post

           -Watergate         

           -Election Practices Commission        

                 -Washington Post
                 -Washington Star
                 -Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, Thomas P. (“Tip”) O’Neill, Carl B. Albert
                  and Gerald R. Ford
                       -William E. Timmons         

           -Washington Post, Washington Star

           -Soviet summit       

                 -New York Times

                 -Washington Post

           -Washington Star article 

                 -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] wiretaps
                       -William D. Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement
                       -E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
           -Wiretaps        

                 -FBI files     

                 -J. Edgar Hoover’s activities       

                 -FBI files     

                       -Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
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       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                         Tape Subject Log
                        (rev. February-2012)

                                                Conversation No. 165-36 (cont’d)

             -FBI leaks
-Possible duration
-White House response
       -Election panel       

             -Timmons         

             -Legislation       

             -Raymond K. Price, Jr.        

-Lead news stories
       -Washington Post
             -Soviet summit
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s forthcoming testimony
       -L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
       -Lyndon B. Johnson’s rule
-Walters
       -Memcons
             -President’s conversation with Gray
                   -Gray’s contacts with Walters
                   -John D. Ehrlichman, H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Richard M.
                    Helms
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. characterized
-White House response
-President’s beliefs
       -Possible Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] involvement
-Gray
       -Grand Jury testimony         

             -Press coverage       

             -Buzhardt       

             -Ziegler’s previous press briefing    

       -White House attempts to contact
-White House response
       -President’s previous conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                         Tape Subject Log 

                                        (rev. February-2012)