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Start Date: 11-Jun-1973 12:40 PM

End Date: 11-Jun-1973 12:50 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.

Recording Device: Oval Office

935-014.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 11, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:40 pm and 12:50 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 935-014 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 935-14

Date: June 11, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:40 pm and 12:50 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Watergate       

          -Ziegler’s previous press briefing 

                -President’s telephone call       

                       -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                -Tone
                -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s statement on Soviet Union summit
          -Popular opinion
                -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s view 

          -Press opinion        

          -Erwin Committee hearings           

                -Maurice H. Stans        

                -Jeb Stuart Magruder         

                       -Conversation with Haldeman      

                             -President’s role      

          -Allegations against President        

          -John W. Dean, III 

                -March 21, 1973 conversations with President
                       -Dean’s role in Watergate
                       -William O. Bittman
                -Conversations with President         

                       -Dates      

                       -White House staff involvement     

                -Conversations with Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
                       -White House involvement
                                       -43-

             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. July-2011)

                                                             Conversation No. 935-14 (cont’d)

           -Camp David        

           -Attacks against President    

           -March 21, 1973 conversation with President 

                 -$1,000,000       

                 -Clemency offer      


Economy
     -Press handling

President’s schedule
      -Henry A. Kissinger
            -Press photographs

Kissinger’s schedule
      -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
      -Ziegler’s schedule
            -Economic announcements

Watergate
     -Post May 6, 1973 period
     -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
            -Meeting with Radio correspondents       

                 -Ziegler’s assessment     

                 -Bob Clark       

                 -Conduct of reporters     


President’s schedule
      -Newsmen         

            -Gridiron dinner    

            -White House Correspondent’s Dinner          


Watergate
     -Julie Nixon Eisenhower       

            -Meeting with Radio correspondents      

            -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman 

     -President’s opponents
            -Soviet Union, PRC, Vietnam policy, Cambodia, May 8, December bombing,
                                              -44-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                        Tape Subject Log 

                                         (rev. July-2011)

                                                             Conversation No. 935-14 (cont’d)

                  1972 election 

                 -Retribution       


     President’s schedule
           -California trip
                 -Haig
                 -Option’s for events

     Watergate
          -Ervin Committee hearings
                -Magruder, Dean, Haldeman, Ehrlichman
          -President’s schedule
                -California
                      -Beach
                -Press conference
          -Grand Jury
                -Forthcoming indictments
                -President’s remarks

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 12:50 pm.