Secret White House Tapes

827–19

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827–19
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
December 20, 1972
Conversation No. 827-19

Date: December 20, 1972
Time: 2:47 pm - 2:55 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Saul Pett
-Rose Mary Woods
-The President’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Background information
-Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-Possible meeting with Pett
-The President’s possible role
-The President’s conversation with Woods
-Gerald L. Warren
-Ziegler’s conversation with Woods
-Duration
-Tour
-Executive Office Building [EOB] office, Lincoln Sitting Room
-Photograph session
-Purpose
-Pett’s previous article
-Mood, color
-Presidential decisions
-1972 election
-Reception for administration officials from California
-The President’s comments
-Blair House
-Length of meeting
-Photograph session
-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Woods’s possible meeting with Pett
-Ziegler’s conversation with Woods
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)

Conversation No. 827-19 (cont’d)

-Photograph session
-Henry Burroughs
-The President’s departure
-Helicopter
-Associated Press [AP]
-Compared to Life

Press relations
-Ziegler’s press conference
-The President’s relationship with Kissinger
-William H. Sullivan’s briefing
-Ziegler’s conversation with Sullivan
-Prisoners of War [POW] issue
-Vietnam negotiations

Vietnam War
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Aircraft losses
-The President’s conversation with Kissinger
-Press relations
-Public relations [PR]
-Cambodia
-Invasion
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-US-Soviet Union summit
-Lack of a Presidential announcement
-Kissinger’s advice
-Vietnam negotiations
-Laos
-Defeat
-Vietnam negotiations
-Pace of bombing
-Vietnam negotiations
-Settlement agreement
-Charles W. Colson
-Ziegler
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Pett
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)

Conversation No. 827-19 (cont’d)

-Woods

Ziegler left at 2:55 pm.
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