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168–24
- President Richard M. Nixon
- Ronald L. Ziegler
June 3, 1973
Conversation No. 168-24
Date: June 3, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:10 am and 10:35 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Ziegler’s schedule
-Paris
-Henry A. Kissinger
-White House presence
-23-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-24 (cont’d)
President’s schedule
-Briefing
President’s conversation with Haig
-Ziegler’s progress
-Melvin Laird
-Family
Haig
-Resignation from Army
-Conversation with Ziegler, June 2, 1973
-Character
-Haig’s living arrangements
-Support for President
White House staff morale
Watergate
-News leads
-John W. Dean, III
-Statement concerning meetings with President in 1973
-Dean
-Statement concerning meetings with President
-White House response
-New York Times
-Meetings with President
-February 27, 1973
-March 21, 1973
-Cover-up
-$350,000 and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-February 27, 1973
-Ronald A. Moore
-Meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman at La Costa
-President’s knowledge
-White House response
-Leonard Garment
-Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting
-Leaks from prosecutors, Samuel Dash, and Ervin Committee
-24-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-24 (cont’d)
-Dean’s statement
-Dean
-Statement concerning conversations with President
-Press coverage
-Contacts with President
-January 1973
-February 27, 1973 with Moore
-February 28, 1973
-Statement concerning meetings with President, January 1973 – March 1973
-Number
-Contacts with President
-Executive privilege
-Ervin Committee
-Preparation for President’s March 15, 1973 press conference
-Statement concerning meetings with President
-Intent
-Contacts with President
-March 21, 1973 meeting
-Cover-up
-Statement concerning meetings with President
-White House response
-Intent
-White House response
-News leads, June 2, 1973
-Soviet Embassy’s possession of Pentagon Papers
-Tom C. Huston’s statement
-Dean
-Contacts with President
-Number
-Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting
-President’s investigation
-Timing
-March 1973
-Wording of President’s statement
-March 1973
-President’s knowledge
-Payoffs
-Dean
-Contacts with President
-February 27, - March 21, 1973, and April 16, 1973
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-24 (cont’d)
-Number and timing
-Content
-Motives
-Immunity
-Statement concerning meetings with President
-White House response
-Garment
-Dean
-Statement concerning meetings about President
-President’s knowledge of cover-up
-Documentation
-President’s knowledge of cover-up
-Dean
-Culpability
-Conversations with President
-White House staff members’ culpability
-Haldeman
-Subornation of perjury
-Clemency offer
-Funds for defendants
-William O. Bittman
-President’s response
-March 21, 1973
-Motives
-White House response
-Garment’s view
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s view
-Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting, (June 3, 1973) with Garment, Haig and
Buzhardt
-President’s knowledge
-President’s conversation with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s subsequent conversation with Ehrlichman
-$350,000
-Kalmbach
-President’s March 21, 1973 meeting with Dean
-President’s response
-Ehrlichman
-Bittman
-Ehrlichman
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-24 (cont’d)
-Ehrlichman
-Release of notes to Grand Jury
-White House response
-Possible statements by Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Charles W. Colson
-Ronald Ziegler’s schedule
President’s schedule
-[US – France] summit
Watergate
-Press
-Relationship with Ervin Committee and prosecutors
-Response
-Edward J. Gurney
-John G. Tower
Date: June 3, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:10 am and 10:35 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Ziegler’s schedule
-Paris
-Henry A. Kissinger
-White House presence
-23-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-24 (cont’d)
President’s schedule
-Briefing
President’s conversation with Haig
-Ziegler’s progress
-Melvin Laird
-Family
Haig
-Resignation from Army
-Conversation with Ziegler, June 2, 1973
-Character
-Haig’s living arrangements
-Support for President
White House staff morale
Watergate
-News leads
-John W. Dean, III
-Statement concerning meetings with President in 1973
-Dean
-Statement concerning meetings with President
-White House response
-New York Times
-Meetings with President
-February 27, 1973
-March 21, 1973
-Cover-up
-$350,000 and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-February 27, 1973
-Ronald A. Moore
-Meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman at La Costa
-President’s knowledge
-White House response
-Leonard Garment
-Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting
-Leaks from prosecutors, Samuel Dash, and Ervin Committee
-24-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-24 (cont’d)
-Dean’s statement
-Dean
-Statement concerning conversations with President
-Press coverage
-Contacts with President
-January 1973
-February 27, 1973 with Moore
-February 28, 1973
-Statement concerning meetings with President, January 1973 – March 1973
-Number
-Contacts with President
-Executive privilege
-Ervin Committee
-Preparation for President’s March 15, 1973 press conference
-Statement concerning meetings with President
-Intent
-Contacts with President
-March 21, 1973 meeting
-Cover-up
-Statement concerning meetings with President
-White House response
-Intent
-White House response
-News leads, June 2, 1973
-Soviet Embassy’s possession of Pentagon Papers
-Tom C. Huston’s statement
-Dean
-Contacts with President
-Number
-Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting
-President’s investigation
-Timing
-March 1973
-Wording of President’s statement
-March 1973
-President’s knowledge
-Payoffs
-Dean
-Contacts with President
-February 27, - March 21, 1973, and April 16, 1973
-25-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-24 (cont’d)
-Number and timing
-Content
-Motives
-Immunity
-Statement concerning meetings with President
-White House response
-Garment
-Dean
-Statement concerning meetings about President
-President’s knowledge of cover-up
-Documentation
-President’s knowledge of cover-up
-Dean
-Culpability
-Conversations with President
-White House staff members’ culpability
-Haldeman
-Subornation of perjury
-Clemency offer
-Funds for defendants
-William O. Bittman
-President’s response
-March 21, 1973
-Motives
-White House response
-Garment’s view
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s view
-Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting, (June 3, 1973) with Garment, Haig and
Buzhardt
-President’s knowledge
-President’s conversation with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s subsequent conversation with Ehrlichman
-$350,000
-Kalmbach
-President’s March 21, 1973 meeting with Dean
-President’s response
-Ehrlichman
-Bittman
-Ehrlichman
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-26-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-24 (cont’d)
-Ehrlichman
-Release of notes to Grand Jury
-White House response
-Possible statements by Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Charles W. Colson
-Ronald Ziegler’s schedule
President’s schedule
-[US – France] summit
Watergate
-Press
-Relationship with Ervin Committee and prosecutors
-Response
-Edward J. Gurney
-John G. Tower