Conversation: 165-036
Prev:  165-035 Next: 165-037Start 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
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 -40- 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. -41- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. February-2012)