Conversation: 880-003
Prev: 880-002 Next: 880-004Start Date: Thursday, March 15, 1973 4:58 PM
End Date: Thursday, March 15, 1973 5:05 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On March 15, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:58 am to 12:05 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 880-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 880-3
Date: March 15, 1973
Time: 11:58 am-12:05 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
President’s press conference
-Watergate
-Court tests
-Ziegler’s future comments
-President's comments
-Restrictions on White House commentary
-Cooperation with Congress
-Record of administration
-Alger Hiss case
-Press sensitivity
-Unknown reporter's question
-Ed Kempler
-Press bias
-Comparison to Pentagon Papers case
-Issues of case
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-10)
Conversation No. 880-3 (cont’d)
-White House position with press
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-President's handling of questions characterized
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Stockpiling
-Food prices
-Importance of story
-Aid to India and Pakistan
-Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Executive privilege
-Committee to Reelect the President
-Responsibility
-Kempler’s question
-Hiss case
-Cooperation with Congress
-Hiss case
-Issues
-Press obsessions
-Hostility to administration and presidency
-Bias against President
-Comparison to treatment of John F. Kennedy
-Ziegler’s response
Ziegler left at 12:05 pm.