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Start Date: 2-Jun-1973 1:58 PM

End Date: 2-Jun-1973 2:05 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

168-022.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone at Camp David from 1:58 pm to 2:05 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 168-022 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 168-22

Date: June 2, 1973
Time: 1:58 pm - 2:05 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Watergate
          -Wiretaps
                -Ziegler’s meeting with Alexander M. Haig
                -Release of information
                      -Hugh Scott
          -Haig’s efforts
          -Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
          -Release of information
                -Timing

     Ronald Ziegler’s meeting with Haig
          -President’s schedule
                -Henry A. Kissinger, economy, reorganization
                -Florida
                      -[President’s address at Florida Technical University]
          -Reorganization
                -Haig’s meeting with President

     President’s activities
           -White House strategy
                 -“Moderate profile”
           -Press coverage

     Watergate
          -Press coverage
          -White House response
          -News lead, June 2, 1973
          -Leaks
                -Prosecutors, investigators        

                -Grand Jury       

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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. March-2011)

                                                            Conversation No. 168-22 (cont’d)

                 -Ervin Committee          

                 -Response         

                 -Scott      

                 -Spiro T. Agnew         

                 -Edward J. Gurney           

           -Ervin Committee
                 -Ziegler’s conversation with Leonard Garment, June 2, 1973
                        -Samuel Dash, Fred Thompson
                               -Gurney, Howard H. Baker, Jr.
           -President’s possible press conference
                 -Timing
                        -Leonid I. Brezhnev visit