905–12

Conversation No. 905-12

Date: April 26, 1973
Time: 11:22 am - 12:11 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

Ronald L. Ziegler’s location

-Henry A. Kissinger [?]

-Understanding


The unknown man and Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 11:22 am.

Story on Melvin R. Laird

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:22 am.

Kissinger’s meeting with President

-Ziegler’s briefing

-Delay


The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:11 pm.

Laird

-Meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Possible future role in Congressional relations

-William E. Timmons

-Story concerning replacing Haldeman

-Ziegler’s response

-Discussions with President

-Congressional relations

-Vetoes

-National defense budget


Watergate

-John J. Wilson

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Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)

Conversation No. 905-12 (cont’d)

-Meeting of President, April 25, 1973

-President’s schedule

-Henry E. Petersen

-Meeting with President, April 25, 1973

-Reason for meeting
-President’s meeting with Petersen, April 25, 1973
-Ziegler’s meeting with press
-President’s activities

-Kissinger

-Willy Brandt’s state visit

-Georges J. R. Pompidou

-Kissinger

-Paris
-President’s trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Announcement
-Ziegler’s future briefings of press
-President’s knowledge of Watergate
-President’s veracity
-Ziegler’s veracity
-Ziegler’s March 30, 1973 statement
-John W. Dean III
-President’s knowledge
-Dean
-Camp David
-Report

-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s and James W. McCord’s accounts

-President’s conversations with Petersen

-Possible resignations

-President’s calls on Easter to White House staff

-President’s investigation
-Charges against individuals
-Possible action by President
-Dean
-Meetings with President
-Meetings with U.S. attorney
-April 9, 1973 meeting with the President
-Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)

Conversation No. 905-12 (cont’d)

-President’s activities
-Watergate investigations
-Domestic economy
-Foreign policy
-Individuals involved in Watergate
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-Jack N. Anderson’s April 26, 1973 column
-President’s knowledge
-Accuracy
-President’s investigation
-Possible actions

-Corroborative evidence

-Standards of conduct

-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-White House staff changes

-Laird

-William P. Rogers

-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Leonard Garment
-Ziegler’s conversation with Petersen
-Individuals involved
-President’s views
-Dirty tricks
-Infiltration
-Peace movement
-[First name unknown] Reece [?]

-George S. McGovern campaign

-Standards of judgment

-Dean
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Timing of resignation
-John B. Connally
-Bryce N. Harlow
-President’s activities
-Conversations with Petersen
-Grand jury
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)

Conversation No. 905-12 (cont’d)

-Survivability

-Press’s view

-Sprio T. Agnew

-Press’s view

-President’s campaigns
-1968, 1960
-1962
-Democrats for Nixon

-Ad in San Francisco

-1972

-Clark MacGregor

-McGovern and violence

-Campaign ads

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-President’s conversation with Haldeman
-Dean
-Blackmail of President
-Request for meeting with the President
-Credibility
-Conversations with President
-Conversations with Ziegler
-Conversations with President, March 21, 1973
-President’s motives
-Concealment of facts

-Conversation with John N. Mitchell and Magruder

-Conversation with G. Gordon Liddy

-President’s conversation with Petersen
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in

-Information furnished to judge

-President’s instructions to Richard G. Kleindienst

-Dean’s possible testimony

-Ehrlichman’s conversation with President

-Ehrlichman’s involvement
-Press coverage
-President’s forthcoming action
-Postcards sent to station WTTG
-Postcards sent to President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)

Conversation No. 905-12 (cont’d)

-President’s knowledge
-Effect of news stories
-Ziegler and President’s conversations in Florida
-Effect of President’s forthcoming action
-Dean’s conversation with President, March 21, 1973
-William O. Bittman’s threats

-Dean’s possible statement

-Possible tape recording by Dean

-President’s response

-Dean’s possible statement

-President’s motives
-Dean
-Threat to President
-Credibility
-Haldeman’s involvement
-Contrast with Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s credibility
-Conversations with President
-Executive privilege
-Leaks to press
-National security discussions
-Hypothetical scenarios
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR]
-Attack on Moscow
-Attack on People’s Republic of
China [PRC]
-US retaliation
-Effect on Henry A. Kissinger
-President’s motives
-Rogers’s call to Ziegler
-Offer to President
-Support for President
-John B. Connally
-President’s schedule
-New Majority dinner
-Congress
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
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Tape Subject Log

(rev. September-2011)

Conversation No. 905-12 (cont’d)

-Possible resignations
-Congressional demands
-Petersen’s opinion
-Effect of possible charges

Ziegler left at 12:11 pm.