Conversation: 168-009
Prev: 168-008 Next: 168-010Start Date: Saturday, June 2, 1973 2:19 PM
End Date: Saturday, June 2, 1973 2:29 PM
Participants:
Camp David operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On June 2, 1973, Camp David operator, President Richard M. Nixon, and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 10:19 am and 10:29 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 168-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 168-9
Date: June 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:19 am and 10:29 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-9 (cont’d)
The Camp David operator talked with the President at 10:19 am.
Telephone call from Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler talked with the President between 10:19 am and 10:29 am.
Ziegler’s schedule
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
President’s schedule
-Sleep
-Travel
-Time change
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Press relations
-President’s trip to France [Iceland]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William R. Rogers
-Washington Post picture of President and Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Coverage of trip
-Television [TV] coverage
-Wire services
-Summit
-US, Great Britain, and France
-Kissinger, Rogers
-Greece
-Abolition of monarchy
-Republic
-Unemployment statistics
-Release
National economy
-Strength
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-9 (cont’d)
-Unemployment
-Inflation
-Confidence of American people
Press relations
-Soviet Jews
-Leonid I. Brezhnev statement in New York Times
Watergate
-Archibald Cox and Samuel Dash
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Coverage
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Wiretaps
-Ziegler’s conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Possible release of information
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Ziegler’s conversation with Haig
-Newsmen
-Washington Star story, June 1, 1973
-Scripps-Howard
-Wiretaps
-Newsmen
-National security
-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
-Number
-President’s previous press conference
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Possible release of information
-Format
-Ruckelshaus, Frank Cormier
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Wire services
-Timing
-Hugh Scott’s possible statement
-Kennedy’s possible taps of newsmen
-Names
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Secret Service
-W. Ramsey Clark
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-9 (cont’d)
-Strategy
-Daniel Ellsberg - Morton H. Halperin tap
-Possible release
-Considerations
-Scott
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Haig