Secret White House Tapes

432–24

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432–24
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
May 9, 1973
Conversation No. 432-24

Date: May 9, 1973
Time: 10:54 am - 11:10 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate

-Ziegler’s conversation with Henry E. Petersen

-Court action

-Possible White House response

-President’s conversation with Petersen

-Petersen’s views

-Executive privilege

-Patrick Buchanan’s memo to President

-President’s meeting with staff, May 9, 1973

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Role

-Interim

-Duration

-President’s remarks to fundraising dinner, May 9, 1973
-Discussion of Watergate
-Effects of departures of John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”)
Haldeman
-President’s remarks to Cabinet

-Responsibility

-Press actions

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)

Conversation No. 432-24 (cont’d)

-Veracity issue in Watergate stories
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-John W. Dean, III
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, John N. Mitchell, Ziegler
-Compared to Dean
-Ziegler’s conversation with Buchanan
-Dean

-Reports on Watergate

-Verification of reports

-Aims

-Investigation of Watergate

-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and involvement
-President’s knowledge of Watergate
-Conversation with President and Haldeman March 21, 1973
-Money to defendants
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman involvement
-President’s response
-Possible White House counterattack
-Buchanan’s plan

-Safe deposit box

-Possible contents

-January discussion with Ziegler

-Dean
-Camp David
-Donald H. Segretti
-Charles W. Colson
-Polls
-Public response to Watergate
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-President’s receipt
-Colson

-Haig

-Grand jury appearance

-Vulnerability
-Dean
-E. Howard Hunt
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. September-2011)

Conversation No. 432-24 (cont’d)

Ronald Ziegler left at 11:10 am.
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