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Conversation 022-006

TapeTape 22StartThursday, March 23, 1972 at 5:33 PMEndThursday, March 23, 1972 at 5:34 PMTape start time00:08:23Tape end time00:09:32ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Ziegler, Ronald L.;  Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Recording deviceWhite House Telephone
AudioNARA 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
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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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.
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