Conversation: 906-016
Prev: 906-015 Next: 906-017Start Date: 27-Apr-1973 5:00 PM
End Date: 27-Apr-1973 5:37 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On April 27, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:00 pm and 5:37 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 906-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 906-16
Date: April 27, 1973
Time: Unknown between 5:00 pm and 5:37 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
William D. Ruckelshaus
-Ziegler’s press briefing
Watergate
-Devan L. Shumway
-Seymour M. Hersh’s conversation with William O. Bittman
-Paul L. O’Brien
-New York Times’ information
-President
-John W. Dean, III’s implication of the President
-Henry E. Petersen
-Robert U. (“Bob”) Woodward
-Telephone calls
-David R. Gergen
-Gerald L. Warren
-Information about the President
-Possible resignation by Spiro T. Agnew
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.
Meeting with Petersen
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:37 pm.
Watergate
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 906-16 (cont’d)
-White House reaction to Shumway and Woodward stories
-Dean, Leonard Garment
-Possible conversation between Gergen and Woodward
-Dean
-Woodward
-Hersh, Bittman, O’Brien, Shumway
-Possible recording of conversation with President
Zielger conferred with an unknown man at an unknown time before 5:37 pm.
Greeting
Photograph
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 5:37 pm.