Conversation: 905-012
Prev: 905-011 Next: 905-013Start Date: 26-Apr-1973 11:22 AM
End Date: 26-Apr-1973 12:11 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]; Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On April 26, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, unknown person(s), and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:22 am to 12:11 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 905-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 905-12
Date: April 26, 1973
Time: 11:22 am - 12:11 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown man.
Ronald L. Ziegler’s location
-Henry A. Kissinger [?]
-Understanding
The unknown man and Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 11:22 am.
Story on Melvin R. Laird
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:22 am.
Kissinger’s meeting with President
-Ziegler’s briefing
-Delay
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:11 pm.
Laird
-Meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Possible future role in Congressional relations
-William E. Timmons
-Story concerning replacing Haldeman
-Ziegler’s response
-Discussions with President
-Congressional relations
-Vetoes
-National defense budget
Watergate
-John J. Wilson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 905-12 (cont’d)
-Meeting of President, April 25, 1973
-President’s schedule
-Henry E. Petersen
-Meeting with President, April 25, 1973
-Reason for meeting
-President’s meeting with Petersen, April 25, 1973
-Ziegler’s meeting with press
-President’s activities
-Kissinger
-Willy Brandt’s state visit
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Kissinger
-Paris
-President’s trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Announcement
-Ziegler’s future briefings of press
-President’s knowledge of Watergate
-President’s veracity
-Ziegler’s veracity
-Ziegler’s March 30, 1973 statement
-John W. Dean III
-President’s knowledge
-Dean
-Camp David
-Report
-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s and James W. McCord’s accounts
-President’s conversations with Petersen
-Possible resignations
-President’s calls on Easter to White House staff
-President’s investigation
-Charges against individuals
-Possible action by President
-Dean
-Meetings with President
-Meetings with U.S. attorney
-April 9, 1973 meeting with the President
-Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 905-12 (cont’d)
-President’s activities
-Watergate investigations
-Domestic economy
-Foreign policy
-Individuals involved in Watergate
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-Jack N. Anderson’s April 26, 1973 column
-President’s knowledge
-Accuracy
-President’s investigation
-Possible actions
-Corroborative evidence
-Standards of conduct
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-White House staff changes
-Laird
-William P. Rogers
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Leonard Garment
-Ziegler’s conversation with Petersen
-Individuals involved
-President’s views
-Dirty tricks
-Infiltration
-Peace movement
-[First name unknown] Reece [?]
-George S. McGovern campaign
-Standards of judgment
-Dean
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Timing of resignation
-John B. Connally
-Bryce N. Harlow
-President’s activities
-Conversations with Petersen
-Grand jury
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 905-12 (cont’d)
-Survivability
-Press’s view
-Sprio T. Agnew
-Press’s view
-President’s campaigns
-1968, 1960
-1962
-Democrats for Nixon
-Ad in San Francisco
-1972
-Clark MacGregor
-McGovern and violence
-Campaign ads
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-President’s conversation with Haldeman
-Dean
-Blackmail of President
-Request for meeting with the President
-Credibility
-Conversations with President
-Conversations with Ziegler
-Conversations with President, March 21, 1973
-President’s motives
-Concealment of facts
-Conversation with John N. Mitchell and Magruder
-Conversation with G. Gordon Liddy
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Information furnished to judge
-President’s instructions to Richard G. Kleindienst
-Dean’s possible testimony
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with President
-Ehrlichman’s involvement
-Press coverage
-President’s forthcoming action
-Postcards sent to station WTTG
-Postcards sent to President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 905-12 (cont’d)
-President’s knowledge
-Effect of news stories
-Ziegler and President’s conversations in Florida
-Effect of President’s forthcoming action
-Dean’s conversation with President, March 21, 1973
-William O. Bittman’s threats
-Dean’s possible statement
-Possible tape recording by Dean
-President’s response
-Dean’s possible statement
-President’s motives
-Dean
-Threat to President
-Credibility
-Haldeman’s involvement
-Contrast with Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s credibility
-Conversations with President
-Executive privilege
-Leaks to press
-National security discussions
-Hypothetical scenarios
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR]
-Attack on Moscow
-Attack on People’s Republic of
China [PRC]
-US retaliation
-Effect on Henry A. Kissinger
-President’s motives
-Rogers’s call to Ziegler
-Offer to President
-Support for President
-John B. Connally
-President’s schedule
-New Majority dinner
-Congress
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 905-12 (cont’d)
-Possible resignations
-Congressional demands
-Petersen’s opinion
-Effect of possible charges
Ziegler left at 12:11 pm.