Conversation: 942-001
Prev: 941-009 Next: 942-002Start Date: 15-Jun-1973 8:20 AM
End Date: 15-Jun-1973 8:46 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On June 15, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:20 am to 8:46 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 942-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 942-1
Date: June 15, 1973
Time: 8:20 am - 8:46 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-Content
-Quality
Press coverage
-National economy
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons’s statement
-George Meany’s statement
Watergate
-Press coverage
-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s testimony
-Issue
-Richard Scammon’s view
-Gallup Poll
-Content
-Carl T. Curtis’s statement
-Magruder
-Statements
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.’s statement
-President
-Melvin R. Laird, Bryce N. Harlow, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Washington Post, New York Times
-Forthcoming Leonid Brezhnev visit
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Possible statements
-Haldeman’s knowledge of cover-up
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 942-1 (cont’d)
-Immunity
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Harry Reasoner’s comments concerning Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-John W. Dean, III
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak’s column concerning credibility
-Ervin
-James Kempton’s statement concerning press stories
-Leaks, predicted testimony
-United Press International [UPI]
Brezhnev
-Interview with American press members in Moscow
National economy
-President’s program
-Response
-London, Paris, Tokyo
-Press Coverage
-Roger H. Mudd
-Compared to Phase I
Watergate
-Charles H. Percy
-Effect of Ervin Committee hearings
John B. Connally
-Role on White House staff
-Conversation with Haig and Ziegler
-Press coverage
Watergate
-New stories
-Maurice H. Stans
-List of contributions sent to unknown woman at White House
-Gerald Warren’s comments
-Dean
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 942-1 (cont’d)
Forthcoming Soviet summit
-Press coverage
-Brezhnev’s arrival
-Announcements
-Photographs
Watergate
-Dean
-Magruder’s testimony
-Press coverage
-John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman
-Mary McGrory
-President’s April 30, 1973 speech
-John D. Ehrlichman’s views
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Magruder
-Haldeman’s knowledge of cover-up
-President’s knowledge
-Popular opinion
-Break-in, cover-up
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Dean
-Popular opinion
-Dean
-Alleged conversation with President
-Charles R. Richey and civil case
-Lawyers’ strategy
-Possible motives
-White House response
-Alleged conversations with President
-Clemency offer
-Payoffs to William O. Bittman and E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-White House focus
-Press coverage
-Possible conspiracy
-Mitchell, Magruder
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 942-1 (cont’d)
Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Press coverage
-Agenda
-Leonid M. Zamyatin
-Camp David
-Congress [?]
-Press centers
-Camp David
-Thurmont, Maryland
-Ziegler’s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Zamyatin
-Press coverage of unidentified story
Ziegler left at 8:46 am.