Conversation: 894-007
Prev: 894-006 Next: 894-008Start Date: 12-Apr-1973 12:29 PM
End Date: 12-Apr-1973 1:06 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Berger, Oscar; Sanchez, Manolo;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On April 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, Oscar Berger, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:29 pm to 1:06 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 894-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 894-7
Date: April 12, 1973
Time: 12:29 pm - 1:06 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
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Conversation No. 894-7 (cont’d)
Meeting with Oscar Berger
-Photographs
-Location
Berger entered at 12:29 pm.
Greetings
-Germany
-Moscow
Berger’s book
-Presidential cartoons
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Photographs
-Previous President’s
Drawings of the Presidents
-John F. Kennedy
-Johnson
Berger’s work
-Quality of the work
-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin [?]
Berger’s career
-Presidential compliments
Gifts
-Presentation
-Presidential cufflinks
Berger left at 12:36 pm.
Watergate
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman, April 12, 1973
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Conversation No. 894-7 (cont’d)
-White House staff’s sworn affidavits concerning Watergate
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:36 pm.
Refreshment
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:06 pm.
Watergate
-Ziegler’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Sworn statements
-Impact on press and Senate
-Calls for other affidavits
-President’s role
-Dwight Chapin
-Special prosecutor
-Statement by President
-John N. Mitchell
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Possible statement
-Possible future revelations
-Barry M. Goldwater, Anne L. Armstrong
-Responsibility of White House staff
-Options
-Possible statement by President
-Solutions to problem
-Washington
-National
-Aim of White House policy
-Public perceptions
-Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-Lie detector test
-Reaction in Congress
-Haldeman’s possible statement
-Donald H. Segretti story
-Gordon C. Strachan
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Conversation No. 894-7 (cont’d)
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Segretti’s identification with Watergate
-White House actions
-Past
-Suggestions
-Separation of Segretti from Watergate
-John W. Dean, III’s activities
-Reaction
-Report to President
-Mishandling of Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files
-Contact with Committee for the Re-election of the President
[CRP]
-Involvement with funds for burglars
-Result of exposure
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman knowledge
-Statement about Dean’s activities
-Haldeman
-CRP officials’ beliefs
-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s possible testimony
-Restrictions on witnesses before Ervin Committee
-Release of statements
-President’s role
-Demand for truth
-Resignation as counsel
-Pre-emption by complete statements
-Haldeman
-John N. Mitchell
-Statement
-Chances of survival
-Segretti
-Mitchell
-Responsibilities
-CRP intelligence operation
-Knowledge
-Magruder’s responsibility
-Magruder
-Knowledge
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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Conversation No. 894-7 (cont’d)
-Pressures
-Perception
-Testimony
-White House counterattack
-Mitchell
-Haldeman
-Colson
-Dean’s knowledge
-Mitchell
-Effects of possible White House actions
-Dean
-Possible resignation
-Haldeman
-Reports to staff
-Strachan
-Statement
-Ramifications
-Ervin Committee
-Partisans make-up
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Aims
-Haldeman
-Mitchell
-White House action
-Reasons
-Results
-Special prosecutor
-William P. Rogers
-Ehrlichman
-Impact of Committee report
-Complete statements
-Dean
-President’s role in investigation
-Dean
-Complete statements
-Haldeman
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Conversation No. 894-7 (cont’d)
Ziegler left at 1:06 pm.