Conversation: 168-024
Prev:  168-023 Next: 168-025Start Date: 3-Jun-1973 10:10 AM
End Date: 3-Jun-1973 10:35 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On June 3, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 10:10 am and 10:35 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 168-024 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 168-24 Date: June 3, 1973 Time: Unknown between 10:10 am and 10:35 am Location: Camp David Study Table The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler. Ziegler’s schedule -Paris -Henry A. Kissinger -White House presence -23- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2011) Conversation No. 168-24 (cont’d) President’s schedule -Briefing President’s conversation with Haig -Ziegler’s progress -Melvin Laird -Family Haig -Resignation from Army -Conversation with Ziegler, June 2, 1973 -Character -Haig’s living arrangements -Support for President White House staff morale Watergate -News leads -John W. Dean, III -Statement concerning meetings with President in 1973 -Dean -Statement concerning meetings with President -White House response -New York Times -Meetings with President -February 27, 1973 -March 21, 1973 -Cover-up -$350,000 and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Herbert W. Kalmbach -February 27, 1973 -Ronald A. Moore -Meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman at La Costa -President’s knowledge -White House response -Leonard Garment -Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting -Leaks from prosecutors, Samuel Dash, and Ervin Committee -24- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2011) Conversation No. 168-24 (cont’d) -Dean’s statement -Dean -Statement concerning conversations with President -Press coverage -Contacts with President -January 1973 -February 27, 1973 with Moore -February 28, 1973 -Statement concerning meetings with President, January 1973 – March 1973 -Number -Contacts with President -Executive privilege -Ervin Committee -Preparation for President’s March 15, 1973 press conference -Statement concerning meetings with President -Intent -Contacts with President -March 21, 1973 meeting -Cover-up -Statement concerning meetings with President -White House response -Intent -White House response -News leads, June 2, 1973 -Soviet Embassy’s possession of Pentagon Papers -Tom C. Huston’s statement -Dean -Contacts with President -Number -Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting -President’s investigation -Timing -March 1973 -Wording of President’s statement -March 1973 -President’s knowledge -Payoffs -Dean -Contacts with President -February 27, - March 21, 1973, and April 16, 1973 -25- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2011) Conversation No. 168-24 (cont’d) -Number and timing -Content -Motives -Immunity -Statement concerning meetings with President -White House response -Garment -Dean -Statement concerning meetings about President -President’s knowledge of cover-up -Documentation -President’s knowledge of cover-up -Dean -Culpability -Conversations with President -White House staff members’ culpability -Haldeman -Subornation of perjury -Clemency offer -Funds for defendants -William O. Bittman -President’s response -March 21, 1973 -Motives -White House response -Garment’s view -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s view -Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting, (June 3, 1973) with Garment, Haig and Buzhardt -President’s knowledge -President’s conversation with Haldeman -Haldeman’s subsequent conversation with Ehrlichman -$350,000 -Kalmbach -President’s March 21, 1973 meeting with Dean -President’s response -Ehrlichman -Bittman -Ehrlichman -Jeb Stuart Magruder -26- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2011) Conversation No. 168-24 (cont’d) -Ehrlichman -Release of notes to Grand Jury -White House response -Possible statements by Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Charles W. Colson -Ronald Ziegler’s schedule President’s schedule -[US – France] summit Watergate -Press -Relationship with Ervin Committee and prosecutors -Response -Edward J. Gurney -John G. Tower