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Start Date: 10-Jul-1973 8:19 AM

End Date: 10-Jul-1973 8:32 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Oval Office

947-003.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 10, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:19 am to 8:32 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 947-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 947-3

Date: July 10, 1973
Time: 8:19 am - 8:32 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

       President’s previous visit to Kansas City 

              -Clarence M. Kelley          

                                                 -2-


                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. October-2012)

                                                               Conversation No. 947-3 (cont’d)

             -Media coverage
                   -President’s remarks
                          -Reaction
                   -Crowd
                          -Images of President’s interaction

      Watergate
            -Robert H. Abplanalp
                    -Department of Justice’s statement July 10, 1973
                            -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                    -Stories July 11, 1973
                            -Helen A. Thomas
            -Press coverage
            -Samuel J. Ervin’s committee hearings
                    -John N. Mitchell’s forthcoming testimony
            -John D. Ehrlichman’s interview with Seattle Post Intelligence
                    -President’s conversation July 9, 1972
            -John W. Dean III
                    -Statements regarding President and clemency
                            -Charles W. Colson
                    -Conversations with the President
                    -Testimony before Ervin Committee
                            -Ehrlichman’s view
                            -Effect of others’ subsequent testimony
            -John Andrews memorandum

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:19 am.

      President requested aide to enter office

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:32 am.

      Watergate
            -Andrews
                  -Ziegler’s call July 10, 1973
                  -Memorandum
                         -Archibald Cox, Ervin
                                              -3-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                       Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. October-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 947-3 (cont’d)

              -Media coverage
                     -Richard G. Valeriani
                     -Attacks on President
                     -President’s previous visit to Kansas City
                            -National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
              -Robert L. Vesco
                     -Mitchell’s lawyers’ motion
              -Ervin Committee
                     -President’s possible testimony
                            -Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield’s view

       Ralph Abernathy
             -Resignation from Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC]
                    -President’s reaction

       Watergate
             -Jack Anderson’s column July 11, 1973
             -President’s April 15, 1973 meeting with Richard Kleindienst and Henry E.
              Petersen
                    -Jeb Stuart Magruder
                    -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Ehrlichman
                    -Importance
                    -Three federal prosecutors’ meeting with Kleindienst and Petersen
             -Camp David memorandum [?]

The President and Ronald L. Ziegler left at 8:32 am.