Conversation: 928-002
Prev: 928-001 Next: 928-003Start Date: 25-May-1973 9:50 AM
End Date: 25-May-1973 10:10 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 25, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:50 am to 10:10 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 928-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 928-2
Date: May 25, 1973
Time: 9:50 am - 10:10 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 928-2 (cont’d)
Press relations
-Prisoners of war [POWs] dinner
-Television [TV]
-Radio
-Amount of coverage
-Washington Post
-Front page
-TV
-Impact
-December 1972 bombing
-POW release
-Santa Claus
-Christmas
-TV
-Radio
President’s schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Press briefing
-Ziegler
-Cabinet meeting
-Elliot L. Richardson’s swearing-in ceremony
Press relations
-Statement
-Santa Ana Register
-California purchase
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Retraction
-Liberty group
-Right-wing
-Press briefing
-Gerald L. Warren
-Opponents in press
-Mass hysteria
-Innuendo
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 928-2 (cont’d)
-Irritation
-POW support for December 1972 bombing
-Cheers
-Personalities
-Reality
President’s schedule
-Trip to California
-Length of stay
Press relations
-Reaction to POW dinner
-[First name unknown] Folsom
-Moderates
Watergate
-Press reaction
-White House reaction
-President’s possible press conference
-Gallup poll
-Timing
Polls
-Effect on the President
-Comparison to December 1972 bombing in Vietnam
-Gallup
-Figures
Watergate
-President’s conversation with [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Baker’s interrogation of Bernard W. Fensterwald
-George S. McGovern
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Credibility
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 928-2 (cont’d)
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Possible testimony
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-Pay-offs
-Denial
-Charles W. Colson
-Dwight L. Chapin and Donald Segretti
-Lt. Gen Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
-President’s knowledge of activities described
-John W. Dean, III
-Dean
-Meetings with the President
-Possible immunity
-Activities
-Attitude toward the President
-Attitude toward Ehrlichman
-White House response
-White House response
-White Paper
-Content
-Walters’s memcons
-Possible leak by Ervin Committee
-Dean’s request regarding Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] payroll
-Press reaction
-White House response
-Timing
-President’s return from trip to Iceland
-President’s possible role
-Ervin Committee hearings
-National interest
-TV network news shows
-President’s statement on secrecy, May 24
Weather
-Florida
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 928-2 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Press reaction
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Procedures
-McCord and Gerald Alch
-Compared with the President’s handling of Alger Hiss case
Ziegler left at 10:10 am.