Conversation: 020-050
Prev: 020-049 Next: 020-051Start Date: Monday, February 7, 1972 9:44 PM
End Date: Monday, February 7, 1972 9:49 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:57:45
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:02:02
NARA Description:
On February 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 4:44 pm to 4:49 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-050 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 20-50
Date: February 7, 1972
Time: 4:44 pm - 4:49 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
[See Conversation No. 319-14]
Afternoon briefing
-Henry A. Kissinger briefing
-Content
-Xuan Thuy offer
-Foreign policy report
-News embargo
Vietnam
-Morning briefing
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman statement about critics
-Associated Press [AP] coverage
-Administration clarification
-Ziegler
-Haldeman’s opinion
-The President’s comments before taking office
-Lack of unity
George S. McGovern statements
-End of aid to South Vietnam
-Withdraw Nguyen Van Thieu recognition
-Administration handling
-Lack of comment
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Factual errors
-Points of view
Helen A. Thomas story
-President's involvement in reporter selection for People’s Republic China [PRC] trip
-Reported call by correspondent to President
-List of invitees
-The President’s friends
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Stanley Karnow
-Administration denial
-Ziegler’s talk with the President
-Criteria for invitee selection
-The President’s involvement
-Ziegler’s role
-Invitees
-Support for the President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)