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. -3- 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 -4- 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 -5- 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 -6- 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.