Conversation: 335-016
Prev: 335-015 Next: 335-017Start 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
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
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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
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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.