Conversation: 827-019
Prev:  827-018 Next: 827-020Start Date: 20-Dec-1972 2:47 PM
End Date: 20-Dec-1972 2:55 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On December 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:47 pm to 2:55 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 827-019 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 827-19 Date: December 20, 1972 Time: 2:47 pm - 2:55 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler. The President’s schedule -Meeting with Saul Pett -Rose Mary Woods -The President’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Background information -Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman -Possible meeting with Pett -The President’s possible role -The President’s conversation with Woods -Gerald L. Warren -Ziegler’s conversation with Woods -Duration -Tour -Executive Office Building [EOB] office, Lincoln Sitting Room -Photograph session -Purpose -Pett’s previous article -Mood, color -Presidential decisions -1972 election -Reception for administration officials from California -The President’s comments -Blair House -Length of meeting -Photograph session -Meeting with George P. Shultz -Henry A. Kissinger -Woods’s possible meeting with Pett -Ziegler’s conversation with Woods -42- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. July-08) Conversation No. 827-19 (cont’d) -Photograph session -Henry Burroughs -The President’s departure -Helicopter -Associated Press [AP] -Compared to Life Press relations -Ziegler’s press conference -The President’s relationship with Kissinger -William H. Sullivan’s briefing -Ziegler’s conversation with Sullivan -Prisoners of War [POW] issue -Vietnam negotiations Vietnam War -US bombing north of 20th Parallel -Aircraft losses -The President’s conversation with Kissinger -Press relations -Public relations [PR] -Cambodia -Invasion -The President’s May 8, 1972 decision -US-Soviet Union summit -Lack of a Presidential announcement -Kissinger’s advice -Vietnam negotiations -Laos -Defeat -Vietnam negotiations -Pace of bombing -Vietnam negotiations -Settlement agreement -Charles W. Colson -Ziegler -The President’s May 8, 1972 decision The President’s schedule -Meeting with Pett -43- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. July-08) Conversation No. 827-19 (cont’d) -Woods Ziegler left at 2:55 pm.