Date: May 13, 1973
Time: 10:09 am - 10:20 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Press coverage
-Soviet summit
-Washington Post
-Watergate
-Election Practices Commission
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, Thomas P. (“Tip”) O’Neill, Carl B. Albert
and Gerald R. Ford
-William E. Timmons
-Washington Post, Washington Star
-Soviet summit
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Washington Star article
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] wiretaps
-William D. Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Wiretaps
-FBI files
-J. Edgar Hoover’s activities
-FBI files
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-36 (cont’d)
-FBI leaks
-Possible duration
-White House response
-Election panel
-Timmons
-Legislation
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Lead news stories
-Washington Post
-Soviet summit
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s forthcoming testimony
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s rule
-Walters
-Memcons
-President’s conversation with Gray
-Gray’s contacts with Walters
-John D. Ehrlichman, H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Richard M.
Helms
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. characterized
-White House response
-President’s beliefs
-Possible Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] involvement
-Gray
-Grand Jury testimony
-Press coverage
-Buzhardt
-Ziegler’s previous press briefing
-White House attempts to contact
-White House response
-President’s previous conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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