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Start Date: 8-Feb-1972 3:05 PM

End Date: 8-Feb-1972 3:14 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:51:58

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:58:35

320a.mp3

320b.mp3

320c.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:05 pm to 3:14 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 320-027 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 320-27

Date: February 8, 1972
Time: 3:05 pm - 3:14 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald Ziegler.

     H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s interview on Today show, February 7, 1972
          -Possible statement
               -John A. Scali
                      -Talk with Haldeman, Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Henry A. Kissinger
               -Ziegler’s view
                      -Previous talk with Patrick J. Buchanan
               -Public relations
               -Buchanan’s view
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)



     Questions for press statement
          -Handling
          -Potential story for the press

     Vietnam issues
          -Ziegler’s possible meeting with Haig
          -Kissinger
                -Peter M. Flanigan [?]
          -Scali
                -Potential story for the press
          -Foreign policy address on the radio
                -Timing
          -People’s Republic of China [PRC] visit
                -Arrangements
                      -Ziegler’s concern
                      -Participation by Scali
                            -Administration’s relationship with the Press
          -George S. McGovern
          -Kissinger
                -Upcoming conversation with Ziegler

Ziegler left at 3:14 pm.