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Start Date: 2-Jun-1973 10:19 AM

End Date: 2-Jun-1973 10:29 AM

Participants:

Camp David operatorNixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

168-009.mp3

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
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                   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


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

     President’s schedule      

           -Sleep      

                 -Travel     

                      -Time change        


[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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     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       

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             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             

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                  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