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Start Date: 3-Jun-1973 11:51 AM

End Date: 3-Jun-1973 12:09 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

168-030a.mp3

168-030b.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 11:51 am and 12:09 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 168-030 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 168-30

Date: June 3, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:51 am and 12:09 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Watergate      

          -John W. Dean, III 

                -Statement concerning meetings with President 

          -Possible statements
                -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson
                -Edward J. Gurney, Barry M. Goldwater, John G. Tower, and Hugh Scott
          -Dean        

                -Statement of meetings with President 

                      -White House response       

                -Contacts with President     

                      -Dates     

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       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                         Tape Subject Log
                         (rev. March-2011)

                                               Conversation No. 168-30 (cont’d)

           -Richard A. Moore          

           -Dates      

           -March 22, 1973        

                 -Ehrlichman, Haldeman, John N. Mitchell
                 -Executive privilege
                 -Location
           -Number        

           -President’s press conferences in March 1973 

           -Executive privilege         

                 -L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s testimony
     -Motive       

           -Immunity        

           -Leonard Garment’s view           

     -White House response         

     -Contacts with President        

     -White House response         

           -Scott, Goldwater, Gurney, and Tower
           -Spiro T. Agnew
     -March 21, 1973 meeting with President
           -William O. Bittman
     -March 22, 1973 meeting with President, Mitchell, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman
           -Bittman
-Whtie House response
     -President’s schedule
     -Ziegler’s schedule
     -President’s contacts with Dean
           -February 28, 1973 with Moore
-Dean
     -Meetings with President
           -President’s notes
                 -Haldeman, Ehrlichman            

           -Dean’s notes       

           -May 22, 1973 White Paper            

           -March 21, 1973        

                 -Funds for cover-up          

           -$350,000 and Haldeman           

           -Herbert W. Kalmbach           

-Meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman at La Costa
     -Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s subsequent meetings with President
-White House response
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       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                         Tape Subject Log
                         (rev. March-2011)

                                                Conversation No. 168-30 (cont’d)

      -Haldeman’s possible press meeting
            -Paul[?] Miller
                   -Ziegler’s recollection
-Dean
      -Contacts with President
-White House response
      -Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
            -Haig
                   -Henry A. Kissinger
            -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. and Garment
                   -Response to Dean’s statement and press
-Ervin Committee hearings
      -Dean
            -Possible testimony          

                   -Date        

            -Possible immunity          

                   -Buzhardt
-Dean
      -Possible immunity
            -Buzhardt       

      -White House response           

      -Compared to James W. McCord, Jr. 

            -Gerald Alch
      -Press treatment        

            -Washington Post, New York Times stories, June 3, 1973 

            -White House response            

      -Statement concerning meetings with President 

            -Buzhardt’s view          

                   -Dean’s lawyer          

                         -Motive        

            -Characterized as news story       

            -New York Times story 

                   -Dean’s use of press
                         -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] appearance
                                  -Motive
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