165–17

Conversation No. 165-17

Date: May 12, 1973
Time: 12:31 pm - 12:36 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing

-President’s conversation with Kissinger

-Lead news stories

-Meeting with Ziegler

-News wires

-Soviet summit

-Watergate

-[Wiretaps]
-National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Memorandums

Watergate
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-Ziegler’s attempts to locate

-Ziegler’s forthcoming press statement

-President’s contact with Gray
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-President’s alleged role in cover-up
-Timing

Lead news stories
-Forthcoming Soviet summit

-Leonid I. Brezhnev

-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

-Trade

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2012)

Conversation No. 165-17 (cont’d)

-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Le Duc Tho

-Cambodia


Watergate

-Kissinger’s briefing

-Wiretaps


Commission on Election Reform

-William E. Timmons’s possible calls to Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford

-Scott, Ford and George H. W. Bush

-John C. Stennis’s possible reaction

-Buzhardt\\

-Leonard Garment

-Structure of commission

-Campaign financing

-Lead news stories

-Washington Star

Watergate

-Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Buzhardt’s attempts to contact Gray

-Leaks