168–24

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

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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
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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
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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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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