Conversation: 448-011
Prev:  448-010 Next: 448-012Start Date: 10-Jul-1973 12:50 PM
End Date: 10-Jul-1973 1:20 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On July 10, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:50 pm to 1:20 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 448-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 448-11 Date: July 10, 1973 Time: 12:50 pm - 1:20 pm Location: Executive Office Building -5- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. April-2012) Conversation No. 448-11 (cont’d) The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler Press briefing July 10, 1973 -Gerald L. Warren -Republican leaders -Hugh Scott -John N. Mitchell -Warren’s contributions -Government Accountability Office [GAO] report -Agriculture -[Grain sale] -Precision Valve Corporation -[Anti-trust action] -Denials Watergate -Expenditures at San Clemente and Key Biscayne -William J. Brennan, Jr. -Forthcoming conversation with Ziegler -Legal purchase contrasted with General Services Administration [GSA] expenditures -Arthur F. Sampson -Possible statement -Justification -Release of figures -House, Office -Gerald L. Warren’s briefing -Robert H. Abplanalp -Ziegler’s meeting with Brennan -Abplanalp -Possible conversation and statement -Ziegler -Meeting with William L. Safire -Press briefing July 10, 1973 by Warren -Attitude toward Watergate -Guilt of Mitchell, President -Law firm -6- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. April-2012) Conversation No. 448-11 (cont’d) -Ervin committee hearings -Samuel Dash -Mitchell’s testimony -Jeb Stuart Magruder -Mitchell’s schedule -Magruder -G[eorge] Gordon Liddy -Meetings -Meetings with White House -DeVan L. Shumway -John W. Dean, III -Role -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman -March 22, 1973 meeting with the President -Executive privilege -President’s knowledge of break-in -Funds for defendants -White House attitude -Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP] attitude -Charles W. Colson -Magruder’s Grand Jury testimony -Mitchell’s knowledge -Perjury -Dean’s role -CRP -Age of employees -Dean -Legal ethics -Personal responsibility -Ervin committee testimony -Mitchell’s response -Magruder -John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield -Mitchell -Dash’s questioning -Maurice H. Stans’s testimony -Mitchell -7- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. April-2012) Conversation No. 448-11 (cont’d) -Grand Jury testimony in Robert L. Vesco case -U.S. attorney -Martha (Beall) Mitchell -Ervin Committee testimony -Witness schedule -Herbert W. Kalmbach -Mitchell -Magruder -Perjury -Mitchell -President previous meeting with Alexander M. Haig -Henry A. Kissinger’s dinner July 9, 1973 -Frank F. Manckiewicz, Thomas W. Braden, Stewart J. O. Alsop -Democrat’s plans and goals -Possible forthcoming allegations -Political contributions -“Dirty tricks” -Vietnam War, domestic turmoil -Kissinger -Popular interest -President’s opponents -Mankiewicz, Braden, Rowland Evans -White House response -Ervin Committee, Archibald Cox -Press release National economy -President’s program -Congressional relations -George P. Shultz’s views compared to Bryce N. Harlow’s views -Watergate -Walters -Joint Session -Recess -Possible reaction -Export controls -Phase III -8- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. April-2012) Conversation No. 448-11 (cont’d) -Timing -President’s reception -Complexity -Timing -President’s reception -Watergate -President’s possible meeting with Committee Chairman -Cabinet Room, East Room Ziegler’s schedule -Safire Watergate -Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Safire -White House mindset -Congress Ziegler left at 1:20 pm.