Conversation: 926-002
Prev: 926-001 Next: 926-003Start Date: 23-May-1973 8:23 AM
End Date: 23-May-1973 8:36 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 23, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:23 am to 8:36 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 926-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 926-2
Date: May 23, 1973
Time: 8:23 am - 8:36 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Watergate
-White House response
-White Paper [Statements about Watergate Investigation, May 22, 1973]
-National security focus
-Statement by Spiro Agnew
-Ziegler’s schedule
-Press briefing
-2-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 926-2 (cont’d)
-Hugh Scott
-Scott
-Possible statement
-Declassification of Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs
documents
White House staff
-Bryce N. Harlow’s role
Watergate
-Congressional response
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons] and
Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Accusation regarding James R. Schlesinger
-Leonard Garment[?]
White House response
-National security
-White Paper
-Cover statement
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Funds for defendants
-President’s knowledge
-President’s conversation with John W.
Dean III, March 21
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-President’s knowledge
-President’s knowledge
-Conversations with Dean
-Necessity for truth
-Timing of President’s knowledge
-Timing of President’s knowledge
-$350,000
-President’s investigation
-3-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 926-2 (cont’d)
-President’s knowledge
-Funds for defendants
-Cover-up
-President’s conversation with Dean, March 21
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and attorney
-Kalmbach
-$350,000
-Haldeman
-Cover-up
-President’s conversation with Dean, March 21
-Dean’s knowledge
-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield’s visit to McCord
-Dean’s conversations with the President
-Content
-CIA payroll story
-Timing
-Content
-Dean’s report
-John N. Mitchell
-Possible conflict with Jeb S[tuart] Magruder
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Elliot L. Richardson’s meeting with Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. in John D.
Ehrlichman’s office, April 30
-White House response
-President’s knowledge
-Conversations with Dean
-$350,000
-Kalmbach
-Funds for defendants
-Intent
-Special Prosecutor
-Possible delay in criminal actions
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:23 am.
President’s schedule
-4-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 926-2 (cont’d)
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:36 am.
Watergate
-Special Prosecutor
-Possible delay in criminal actions
-CIA
-President’s motives
The President and Ziegler left at 8:36 am.