335–16

Conversation No. 335-16

Date: May 3, 1972
Time: 2:41-2:49 pm.
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

An announcement
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-John D. Ehrlichman
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's call to Ziegler

L. Patrick Gray, III
-Appointment
-Announcement by Kleindienst
-Disadvantages

Kleindienst
-Current position
-Reports in press
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-01)
Conv. No. 335-16 (cont.)


The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:41 and 2:48 pm.

[Conversation No. 335-16A]

An unknown person [Ehrlichman?]
-Return call

[End of telephone conversation]

J. Edgar Hoover
-News stories
-The President’s view
-Praise
-President's support, relationship
-White House staff
-Charles W. Colson
-News stories on President's statement
-Network
-Haldeman
-Eulogy
-Length
-Delivery by the President
-Method
-Whitney M. Young
-Coverage

The President talked with Ehrlichman between 2:48 and 2:49 pm.

[Conversation No. 335-16B]

[See Conversation No. 23-137]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler's announcement
-Gray
-Appointment
-Questions
-Importance of position
-Supreme Court
-Reasons for delay
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-01)
Conv. No. 335-16 (cont.)

-Political pressures
-Continuity of Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] leadership
-Time
-President's meeting with Kleindienst and Gray

Ziegler left at 2:49 pm.