Conversation: 913-003
Prev: 913-002 Next: 913-004Start Date: 8-May-1973 5:16 PM
End Date: 8-May-1973 5:42 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 8, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:16 pm to 5:42 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 913-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 913-3
Date: May 8, 1973
Time: 5:16 pm - 5:42 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Watergate
-John W. Dean III
-Possible immunity by Ervin Committee
-Possible testimony
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, John N. Mitchell and
President
-Meetings with President
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Guidance to White House
-Expression of confidence by White House on March 26
-Diane Sawyer
-James W. McCord, Jr.’s letter
-Ziegler’s conversation with Richard A. Moore
-Gerald L. Warren’s opinion of Dean’s confidence
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2012)
Conversation No. 913-3 (cont’d)
-Investigation of Watergate
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] interviews
-Access to records
-Moore
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Possible attacks on President
-Time cover
-William Proxmire
-Attack on press, May 8
-Dean
-Meetings with President
-President’s concerns in Autumn 1972
-Guidance sessions with Ziegler
-President’s perceptions
-Haldeman’s remembrance
-Praise by President
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Possible testimony before Ervin Committee
-Attacks on President
-Possible response
-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-President
-Senate
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-Meeting, March 10
-Moore and Ehrlichman
-Donald H. Segretti
-Haldeman
-Funds for defendants
-President’s knowledge
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Knowledge
-Intent
-$350,000
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-President’s meeting with Thomas A. Pappas
-Mitchell
-8-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2012)
Conversation No. 913-3 (cont’d)
-Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem
-President’s statement concerning John F. Kennedy’s role at press conference
-New York Times
-Forged cable
-Charles W. Colson
-Marguerite Higgins’s book, Our Vietnam Nightmare
-Malcom E. Smith, Jr.’s book, Kennedy’s Thirteen Great Mistakes in the
White House
-Colson and Cable
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with New York Times
-Timing of President’s previous statements
-Death of Diem
-Dean
-Documents
-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
-Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting with Senate Committee staff members
-Ziegler’s notes
-Questions on Watergate
-Dean
-Investigation of Watergate
-Comment to Warren
-Warren’s notes
-Possible testimony before Ervin Committee
-Grand jury
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Rose
-Executive privilege
-Haig’s view
-Dean
-White House position
-President’s papers
-Conversation with President
-Criminal activity
-National security
-J. Edgar Hoover’s activities
-Dean
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2012)
Conversation No. 913-3 (cont’d)
-Possible White House counterattack
-Leaks
-Subornation of perjury
-Magruder
-Role
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Conversations with President
-March 21, 1971
Ziegler left at 5:42 pm.