Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 22 › Conversation 022-006

Nixon, Ziegler & Haig on ITT and Chile

Thursday, March 23, 1972 · 5:33 PM–5:34 PM ET · White House Telephone · 1 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Conversation022-006 on Tape 22 (tape position 00:08:23–00:09:32)StartThursday, March 23, 1972 at 5:33 PMEndThursday, March 23, 1972 at 5:34 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 022-006 ↗

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President Nixon consulted with Ronald Ziegler and Alexander Haig regarding the administration's public response to allegations of ITT involvement in Chilean politics. The discussion centered on a recent State Department denial concerning controversial statements attributed to Ambassador Edward M. Korry, which had been leaked by columnist Jack Anderson. Nixon and his aides agreed to deflect further inquiries by referencing the President’s previously stated policy positions on Latin America and Chile.

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Yes, sir.
Have you said anything, Ron, with regard to the ITT in Chile?
The State Department dealt with that today.
Oh, they did?
Yes, sir.
What did they do?
Deny it?
They denied it, but they were cautious on how they dealt with the Corey statement because they were afraid that might backfire.
Why?
What did Corey say?
Well, Corey said that he had received instructions to do anything short of a...
Dominican-type alleged to have said that.
Or he did?
Right.
How'd that get out?
He put that out?
Well, Anderson received that from some source.
Al Haig is sitting with me now.
Oh, yeah.
It was a report contained in an IT&T thing.
Oh, yeah.
He was.
He was instructed to.
Well, but I hope that he just failed.
Son of a bitch, that's his main problem.
He should have kept all the other of them getting in.
Well,
In any event, State has denied it today, and they referred to your comments about Latin America and Chile, and so you just refer to that on that one.
Fine, okay.
Yes, sir.

NARA Description

On March 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 5:33 pm to 5:34 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 22-6

Date: March 23, 1972
Time: 5:33 pm - 5:34 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 692-7C]

     Chile

           -Ziegler’s comments on International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] involvement
                -State Department
                       -Statement
           -Edward M. Korry statement
                -Dominican Republic
                -Jack N. Anderson

Ziegler conferred with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[End of conferral]

                 -ITT statement
                 -Instructions
                 -Salvador Allende Gossens
           -Latin American and Chile
                 -The President’s previous comments

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 022-006, March 23, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-006 (accessed October 12, 2026).