Conversation: 911-016
Prev: 911-015 Next: 911-017Start Date: 3-May-1973 10:30 AM
End Date: 3-May-1973 11:01 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 3, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:30 am to 11:01 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 911-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 911-16
Date: May 3, 1973
Time: 10:30 am - 11:01 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and an unknown person.
President’s schedule
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:01 am.
Ziegler’s possible press briefing
Dinner event Ziegler attended, May 2, 1973
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. and Walter F. Mondale
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2012)
Conversation No. 911-16 (cont’d)
-James W. Symington
-Publishers’ comments on Watergate
Watergate
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-President’s handling
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Possible role with White House staff
-Temporary assignment
-Arthur F. Burns
Watergate
-President’s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-John D. Ehrlichman’s statement regarding David R. Young
-National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Transfer to Domestic Council
-Payroll
-National security
-Young
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-John W. Dean III
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-Leaks
-Chalmers Roberts
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] wiretaps on newsmen
-Leaks
-Investigations
-Ziegler’s possible statement
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman, May 2, 1973
-Leave of absence
-Ellsberg break-in
-National security investigations
-Prevalence of burglaries
-Krogh and Young
-Leonard Garment
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2012)
Conversation No. 911-16 (cont’d)
-FBI guards in offices
-Leaks
-Judgment
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Financial support
-Meetings with Elliot L. Richardson, William P. Rogers and John W.
Wilson
-Executive privilege
-Meeting with the President
-Rogers’s view
-Wilson’s need for guidance
-President’s memorandum
-Executive privilege
-Meeting with President
-Executive privilege
-President’s schedule
-Executive privilege
-President’s files and papers
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:30 am.
Watergate
-Leonard Garment
-President’s schedule
An unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:01 am.
Watergate
-John K. Andrews, Jr.’s draft of speech for President
-President’s activities
-Robert L. Vesco
-Donald A. Nixon, Jr.
-Murray Chotiner
-Ehrlichman
-Possible statement from President
-Corruption
-Campaign finances
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2012)
Conversation No. 911-16 (cont’d)
-George S. McGovern’s campaign
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Ervin Committee
-Resignations
-Raymond K. Price’s comment on White House staff’s view
-Compared to John N. Mitchell
White House staff
-Haig, Jr.
-Roy L. Ash
-Role in administration
-Chief of staff position
-Haig
-Role in administration
-Sherman Adams’s successor
-Retention of military position
-Six Crises
-Spiro T. Agnew and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
John B. Connally
-Political affiliation
-Ziegler’s comments at press briefing
Watergate
-Ziegler’s possible comments
-Trials
-Dean
-Krogh story
-Ehrlichman’s questioning by FBI
-Comments to prosecutors
-Meeting with the President, March 1973
-Ellsberg
-Report of conversations with Hunt and Liddy
-Hearsay
-Justice Department’s investigation
-Ellsberg break-in
-President’s knowledge
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2012)
Conversation No. 911-16 (cont’d)
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Photograph
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Haldeman’s conversation with Ziegler
-Haldeman’s resignation
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Possible statement
-William O. Bittman
-Protection of the President
-Rogers, Richardson, and Garment
-FBI guards in offices
-Garment
-Leak
-Garment
President’s schedule
-Garment
-Radio speech
-Florida
Ziegler left at 11:01 am.