Conversation: 929-003
Prev: 929-002 Next: 929-004Start Date: 29-May-1973 8:44 AM
End Date: 29-May-1973 9:10 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 29, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:44 am to 9:10 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 929-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 929-3
Date: May 29, 1973
Time: 8:44 am - 9:10 am
Location: Oval Office
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 929-3 (cont’d)
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Press relations
-Schedule
-Briefings
-Number
-Ziegler’s role
-Meeting with [unintelligible name]
-Length
-Results
-Wire service copy
-Size
-Henry A. Kissinger’s role, May 29
-Bipartisan leadership meeting
-George P. Shultz’s role, May 29
-Economic press
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Seminar
-Journalists from People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Courtesy
-Shultz
-PRC journalist
-Congressional Democratic leaders reception
-Southern [?]
-Loyalists
-Joseph D. Waggonner, Jr.
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Performance
-Assistance
-Ziegler’s role
-Economic issues
-Cabinet
-John D. Ehrlichman’s and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s roles on White House staff
-Bryce N. Harlow [?]
Economic [Quadriad] meeting, May 29
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 929-3 (cont’d)
-Haig
-Policy shift
-Results
-Decision
-Economic advisors
-Opinions
-Haig, William E. Timmons
Watergate
-White House response
-Strategy
-President’s possible grand jury appearance
-United States Attorneys
-Ziegler’s response, May 28
-Call to Elliot L. Richardson
-Forthcoming call to Archibald Cox
-President’s possible appearance before Ervin Committee
-President’s possible grand jury appearance
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-News story
-Possible White House response
-Leonard Garment
-Motivations of participants
-Press actions
-President’s possible Grand Jury appearance
-Earl J. Silbert
-News story
-White House response
-Justice Department employees
-Silbert
-John W. Dean III
-Religious affiliation
-Ziegler’s mood, May 28
-White House response
-Press
-Gerald L. Warren
-Answers to questions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 929-3 (cont’d)
-Congress
-Patrick J. Buchanan
Haig
-Performance
Watergate
-President’s possible Grand Jury appearance
-Possible responses
-Richardson
-Cox
-White House response
-Charles W. Colson
-Surrogates
-Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Barry M. Goldwater and Robert J. Dole
-Spiro T. Agnew
-George H. W. Bush
-Samuel L. Devine
-President’s possible grand jury appearance
-White House response
President’s schedule
-Haig
Kissinger’s press briefing
-Agenda
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Soviet Union
-South Vietnam
-National security
-Confidentiality needs in foreign relations
Ziegler left at 9:10 am.
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