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Start Date: 3-May-1972 2:41 PM

End Date: 3-May-1972 2:49 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.[Unknown person(s)]Ehrlichman, John D.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:54:54

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:02:31

335a.mp3

335b.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, unknown person(s), and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:41 pm to 2:49 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 335-016 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 335-16

Date: May 3, 1972
Time: 2:41-2:49 pm.
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     An announcement
          -Richard G. Kleindienst
          -John D. Ehrlichman
          -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's call to Ziegler

     L. Patrick Gray, III
          -Appointment
                -Announcement by Kleindienst
                -Disadvantages

     Kleindienst
          -Current position
                -Reports in press
                                             12

                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Nov-01)
                                                                    Conv. No. 335-16 (cont.)


The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:41 and 2:48 pm.

[Conversation No. 335-16A]

     An unknown person [Ehrlichman?]
         -Return call

[End of telephone conversation]

     J. Edgar Hoover
          -News stories
                -The President’s view
                -Praise
          -President's support, relationship
                -White House staff
                -Charles W. Colson
          -News stories on President's statement
                -Network
                -Haldeman
          -Eulogy
                -Length
                -Delivery by the President
                      -Method
                      -Whitney M. Young
                      -Coverage

The President talked with Ehrlichman between 2:48 and 2:49 pm.

[Conversation No. 335-16B]

[See Conversation No. 23-137]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Ziegler's announcement
          -Gray
                 -Appointment
          -Questions
                 -Importance of position
                      -Supreme Court
                 -Reasons for delay
                                                13

                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. Nov-01)
                                                                          Conv. No. 335-16 (cont.)

                        -Political pressures
                  -Continuity of Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] leadership
            -Time
            -President's meeting with Kleindienst and Gray

Ziegler left at 2:49 pm.