Conversation: 168-009
Prev:  168-008 Next: 168-010Start Date: 2-Jun-1973 10:19 AM
End Date: 2-Jun-1973 10:29 AM
Participants:
Camp David operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On June 2, 1973, Camp David operator, President Richard M. Nixon, and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 10:19 am and 10:29 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 168-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 168-9 Date: June 2, 1973 Time: Unknown between 10:19 am and 10:29 am Location: Camp David Study Table -7- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2011) Conversation No. 168-9 (cont’d) The Camp David operator talked with the President at 10:19 am. Telephone call from Ronald L. Ziegler Ziegler talked with the President between 10:19 am and 10:29 am. Ziegler’s schedule ***************************************************************** [Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift] President’s schedule -Sleep -Travel -Time change [End segment reviewed under deed of gift] ***************************************************************** Press relations -President’s trip to France [Iceland] -Henry A. Kissinger -William R. Rogers -Washington Post picture of President and Georges J. R. Pompidou -Coverage of trip -Television [TV] coverage -Wire services -Summit -US, Great Britain, and France -Kissinger, Rogers -Greece -Abolition of monarchy -Republic -Unemployment statistics -Release National economy -Strength -8- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2011) Conversation No. 168-9 (cont’d) -Unemployment -Inflation -Confidence of American people Press relations -Soviet Jews -Leonid I. Brezhnev statement in New York Times Watergate -Archibald Cox and Samuel Dash -Ervin Committee hearings -Coverage -Ervin Committee hearings -Wiretaps -Ziegler’s conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Possible release of information -William D. Ruckelshaus -Ziegler’s conversation with Haig -Newsmen -Washington Star story, June 1, 1973 -Scripps-Howard -Wiretaps -Newsmen -National security -Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy -Number -President’s previous press conference -J. Edgar Hoover -Possible release of information -Format -Ruckelshaus, Frank Cormier -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] -Wire services -Timing -Hugh Scott’s possible statement -Kennedy’s possible taps of newsmen -Names -Lyndon B. Johnson -Secret Service -W. Ramsey Clark -9- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2011) Conversation No. 168-9 (cont’d) -Strategy -Daniel Ellsberg - Morton H. Halperin tap -Possible release -Considerations -Scott -Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Haig