Conversation: 908-015
Prev: 908-014 Next: 908-016Start Date: 1-May-1973 12:27 PM
End Date: 1-May-1973 12:39 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 1, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:27 pm to 12:39 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 908-015 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 908-15
Date: May 1, 1973
Time: 12:27 pm - 12:39 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Watergate
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-President’s directives
-Elliot L. Richardson, Leonard Garment and William D.
Ruckelshaus
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] guards in offices
-Washington Post
-President’s previous speech, April 30
-White House staff
-William E. Timmons
-Reaction to President’s speech, April 30
-Telephone calls and telegrams
-President’s opponents
-November 3, 1969 speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-15 (cont’d)
-Cambodia
-May 8 decision
-Goals
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-President
-Charles W. Colson
-New York Times and Washington Post
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston’s comment to Garment
-William P. Rogers
Henry A. Kissinger
-Reaction to President’s speech
-Instructions for Ziegler
-President’s support
Watergate
-Reaction to President’s speech, April 30
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller and Spiro T. Agnew
-President’s speech, April 30
-“Christmas Eve” reference
-Garment
-Ending
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-Instructions from Richardson and Garment
-John W. Dean, III
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-President’s forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-President’s schedule
-Quadriad
Kissinger
-Ziegler’s meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Ziegler left at 12:39 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-16 (cont’d)