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Start 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

168-024.mp3

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