Easy NixonAbout

Conversation: 167-006

Prev:  167-005 Next: 167-007

Start Date: 20-May-1973 10:30 AM

End Date: 20-May-1973 10:44 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

167-006.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:30 am to 10:44 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 167-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 167-6

Date: May 20, 1973
Time: 10:30 am - 10:44 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Ziegler’s schedule

     Press coverage        

           -Washington Star picture of President and Linwood Holton 

           -President’s statement on North Vietnam

                 -National defense
           -Television [TV] coverage of President’s Norfolk speech, May 19
                 -Network news
           -Leonid I. Brezhnev’s meeting with Willy Brandt
                 -Germany
           -Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule

     Watergate
          -New reports       

               -Funds for defendants      

               -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

               -Finances        

                     -Government Accounting Office [GAO] report

     Watergate
                                               -4-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                        Tape Subject Log 

                                        (rev. March-2011)

                                                                Conversation No. 167-6 (cont’d)

           -Richard M. Helms’s meeting
           -John W. Dean, III’s meeting with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
           -White House response
                 -Forthcoming White Paper
                       -President’s schedule
                       -President’s possible meeting with congressional leaders
                             -Attendees
                                    -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
                       -Timing of release
                             -Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]
                                    -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s conversation with John C. Stennis
                       -Follow-up
                             -Herbert G. Klein
                             -President’s schedule
                                    -Possible press conference
                 -President’s schedule        

                       -Possible effect on press       

                       -San Clemente         

                             -Brezhnev         

                       -Kakuei Tanaka           

                       -San Clemente         

           -Popular reaction      

           -Compared with other attacks on the Presidency 

           -Target      

                 -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
                 -President
                 -Presidency