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Start Date: 5-May-1971 11:33 AM

End Date: 5-May-1971 11:38 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:10:11

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:15:50

491a.mp3

491b.mp3

491c.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 5, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:33 am to 11:38 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 491-026 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 491-26

Date: May 5, 1971
Time: 11:33 am - 11:38 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 9/08)



     Kent State University
          -Anniversary
          -Ziegler's statement to press
                -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                -Wording
                      -Sorrow
                      -Jackson State University
                      -President’s interview with television networks, January 4, 1971
                -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] program, May 4, 1971
                      -Interviews with parents
                      -Summary

     Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. case
          -President's possible meeting with Reid Kennedy
          -President's schedule
                -California

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from
December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M.
Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration produced this
transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

     Media
         -Kent State
               -CBS
         -Asia

     President's schedule
          -Possible trip to Europe
                 -American Bar Association [ABA]
                 -Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and John N. Mitchell
                      -View
                 -Ziegler's possible press statement

Ziegler left at 11:38 am.
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 9/08)