Conversation: 445-022
Prev: 445-021 Next: 445-023Start Date: 13-Jun-1973 3:45 PM
End Date: 13-Jun-1973 4:04 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On June 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:45 pm to 4:04 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 445-022 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 445-22
Date: June 13, 1973
Time: 3:45 pm - 4:04 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Press relations
-National economy
-Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule
-Briefings
-Congress
-Press
-Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Sequoia meeting
-Schedule
-Camp David, Washington, San Clemente
-Agreements
National economy
-William J. Baroody, Jr.’s possible call to Charles W. Colson
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons, Paul Hall
-George Meany
-Forthcoming calls from George P. Shultz, Colson [?]
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s questioning of Maurice H. Stans
-Edward J. Gurney
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.’s response
-Gurney’s response
-Baker
-Ziegler’s meeting with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 445-22 (cont’d)
Phil Donahue
-Interview with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-President and Ziegler’s assessment
-Audience questions
-Significance
-Ziegler’s conversation with John Burgess [?]
-Public reaction
President’s speech on nation’s economy
-Distribution of text
-Embargo
-Media
-Congress
-Impact of Presidential address
-Public reaction
Watergate
-President’s previous meeting with Buzhardt
-Buzhardt
-John W. Dean, III
-White House response
-News columns
-Veracity
-Buzhardt
-President’s reaction
-President’s knowledge
-Timing
-Chappaquiddick
-White House response
-Buzhardt
-George H. W. Bush
-[First name unintelligible] Adams [?]
-Efforts
-Problems
-White House response
Nicholas P. Thimmisch
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 445-22 (cont’d)
-Ziegler’s conversation
-Possible position with White House staff
-Briefing, background
-Ziegler’s experience in advertising
-Media contacts
-Mike Patterson [?]
-Okapee [?]
-Joe Laitin [?]
-Content placement
-Laitin
-Gerald L. Warren
-Facts
-Budget
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible investigations
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Gurney
-Ervin
-Stans
President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Timing
-Speech on nation’s economy
-Ziegler’s, President’s clothes
-Cabinet meeting
-Ziegler’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Compared to bipartisan Congressional leadership meeting
-Haig
-Speech preparation
-Reading copy
-George P. Shultz’s briefing
Press relations
-Ziegler’s role
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 445-22 (cont’d)
-Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing
-Vietnam negotiations
-Communique
-Laos
-Infiltration
-Missing in action [MIAs]
-Infiltration compared to violations
-Communique
-Sighting
-Vietnam negotiations
-South Vietnam’s position
-President’s message to Nguyen Van Thieu
-Kissinger
-Embarrassment
-Helen A. Thomas
-Question in press briefing
Ziegler left at 4:04 pm.