Conversation: 917-020
Prev: 917-019 Next: 917-021Start Date: Monday, May 14, 1973 3:42 PM
End Date: Monday, May 14, 1973 3:59 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:42 am to 11:59 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 917-020 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 917-20
Date: May 14, 1973
Time: 11:42 am - 11:59 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Watergate
-Washington Star story, May 14
-President’s letter to J. Edgar Hoover
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-William D. Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement
-Ziegler’s statement on wiretaps
-White House knowledge
-John W. Dean, III and Henry A. Kissinger
-National security
-Search of President’s files
-President’s memoranda [memos] to Dean, March 1973
-George S. McGovern
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Washington Post story
-College student [?]
-Violence
-McGovern
-Peace groups
-Demonstrations
-Funding
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 917-20 (cont’d)
-1972 campaign work
-President’s order
-President’s recollections
-Meeting
-Evidence
-Goldwater
-Charles W. Colson [?]
-William C. Sullivan
-Wiretaps, 1964 and 1968
-Dean
-Possible memos from the President
-Documents
-Possible content
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-John D. Ehrlichman’s knowledge of wiretaps
-Pentagon Papers investigation
-President’s letter to Hoover concerning Krogh
-Ehrlichman
-Krogh
-Ehrlichman’s orders
-Hunt, Ellsberg’s psychiatrist
Ziegler left at 11:59 am.