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Start Date: 16-Apr-1971 3:15 PM

End Date: 16-Apr-1971 3:27 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:30:25

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:36:27

250a.mp3

250b.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:15 pm to 3:27 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 250-016 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 250-16

Date: April 16, 1971
Time: 3:15 pm - 3:27 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

     Preparation for editors’ meeting
          -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] surveillance
                -Patrick J. Buchanan
                -Questions
                -Ziegler’s responses to press
                      -News conference, April 16, 1971
                      -”False impression” of FBI as spying on law-abiding citizens
                -President’s possible responses
                      -Richard A. Moore
                -Washington Post article
                -President’s instructions for Buchanan
                -Press irresponsibility
                -Surveillance
                -Washington Post
                      -Scare story
                            -Cameras on White House
                            -Lafayette Park
                -Press corps
                -Instructions to Ziegler
                -Justice Department
                      -J. Edgar Hoover
                      -Wiretapping
                -FBI
                -[New York Times story of April 16, 1971]
                      -Allegation of FBI monitoring telephone conversation [involving John
                            Dowdy]
                -Wiretapping
                      -President
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                                      Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 9/08)



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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 6s ]


     FOREIGN AFFAIRS                                                 Conv. No. 250-16 (cont.)


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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     Preparation for editors’ meeting
          -FBI surveillance
                -President’s possible responses
                -Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
                      -Use of wiretapping
                -Edmund S. Muskie and Charles H. Percy
                -Administration’s policy
                -President’s possible responses to press
                -Phony issue
                -Richard G. Kleindienst
                -Press
                      -Peter Lisagor
                      -New York Times story
                -Ziegler’s response to question at news conference
                      -FBI’s responsibility
                -Crimes
                -Arrests
                -National security
                -Press
                -Need for firmness

Ziegler left at 3:27 pm
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                                     Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 9/08)