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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
May 1, 1973
Conversation No. 908-15

Date: May 1, 1973
Time: 12:27 pm - 12:39 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-President’s directives
-Elliot L. Richardson, Leonard Garment and William D.
Ruckelshaus
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] guards in offices
-Washington Post

-President’s previous speech, April 30

-White House staff

-William E. Timmons
-Reaction to President’s speech, April 30

-Telephone calls and telegrams

-President’s opponents

-November 3, 1969 speech
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Conversation No. 908-15 (cont’d)

-Cambodia
-May 8 decision
-Goals
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-President
-Charles W. Colson
-New York Times and Washington Post
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston’s comment to Garment
-William P. Rogers

Henry A. Kissinger

-Reaction to President’s speech

-Instructions for Ziegler

-President’s support


Watergate
-Reaction to President’s speech, April 30
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller and Spiro T. Agnew
-President’s speech, April 30

-“Christmas Eve” reference

-Garment

-Ending

-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-Instructions from Richardson and Garment
-John W. Dean, III
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing

-President’s forthcoming Cabinet meeting

-President’s schedule

-Quadriad

Kissinger

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


Ziegler left at 12:39 pm.
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Conversation No. 908-16 (cont’d)
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