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Start Date: 3-Jun-1973 1:24 PM

End Date: 3-Jun-1973 1:36 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

168-034.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 3, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone at Camp David from 1:24 pm to 1:36 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 168-034 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 168-34

Date: June 3, 1973
Time: 1:24 pm - 1:36 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Watergate       

          -White House response         

                -Hugh Scott         

          -President’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman 

                -Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman’s statements 

          -Ziegler’s conversation with Ehrlichman 

          -Popular opinion        

                -Linwood Holton, Marvin Mandel, Dale Bumpers, Robert D. Ray, Mike
                 O’Callagnan
                       -Television [TV] appearance, June 3, 1973
          -President’s conversation with Haldeman concerning John W. Dean, III
                -Recording of telephone calls
          -President’s Easter call to Dean 

                -Ziegler’s presence         

                -$1,000,000         

                -Dean’s plea          

                -Dean’s subsequent call to Ziegler 

                -Ziegler’s forthcoming call to Haldeman 

          -White House response         

                -Haldeman’s view          

                -President’s talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. 

          -Haldeman’s forthcoming chronology of events
                -$350,000, Herbert W. Kalmbach, Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], and
                 Dean
          -White House response
                -President’s schedule
          -Popular opinion
                -Governor’s TV appearance
                       -Holton, Mandel, Bumpers, Ray, O’Callaghan
          -Dean
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. March-2011)

                                                          Conversation No. 168-34 (cont’d)

                 -Statements        

                 -Motive       

                       -Attorney       

                 -Firings of Haldeman and Ehrlichman 

                 -Possible allegations concerning President     

                 -Possible immunity          

                       -Ehrlichman
                 -Statement concerning meetings with President
           -White House response          

                 -Paris announcement           

                 -Economy         

                 -White House staff         

                       -Melvin R.Laird
                 -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]Director
                 -Orlando trip
                 -President’s activities since April 15, 1973
                       -Media coverage
                              -Trips
                                    -Norfolk
                                    -Prisoners of War [POWs] dinner
                                    -Republican Finance Committee dinner
                                    -Iceland trip
                              -Charles Wright’s joining White House staff
           -Dean
                 -Response by Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson, Ronald A. Moore
           -Moore
                 -Conversations with Ziegler
                       -Advice concerning White House response         

           -Dean       

           -Ziegler’s conversations with Haldeman, Ehrlichman