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- President Richard M. Nixon
- UNKNOWN
- Spiro T. Agnew
- Kenneth R. Cole
- Ronald L. Ziegler
May 1, 1973
Conversation No. 908-24
Date: May 1, 1973
Time: 4:16 pm - 5:10 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown man.
Spiro T. Agnew’s arrival
The President met with Agnew.
Watergate
-President’s previous Cabinet meeting
-President’s comments
-40-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
-Charles H. Percy, Jr.
-Percy
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Agnew’s telephone call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Grand jury investigation of Spiro T. Agnew
-President’s instructions to Haldeman
-J. Glenn Beall, Jr.
-George Beall
-Prosecutor
-Agnew’s possible statements
-Percy
-Agnew’s press conference, April 30
-Agnew’s possible statements
-Agnew, Ronald W. Reagan, and Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Agnew’s possible statements
-President with Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John D. Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and John N. Mitchell
-Agnew’s knowledge
-Assistance to President
-Press
-Previous attacks on press
-November 3, 1969 speech
-1976 election
-Possible press attacks on Agnew
-Agnew’s possible role in second term
-Effects on administration
-Mitchell’s indictment
-Haldeman’s telephone call to Agnew
Agnew
-Relationships
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible role in administration
-Help
Wounded Knee incident
-Law and order
-41-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
Watergate
-George H. W. Bush’s comments
-Anne L. Armstrong’s comments
Agnew
-Possible role in administration
-Foreign travel
-Vietnam War
Congressional relations
-Agnew’s role
-Percy
-Edward W. Brooke
-Support for administration
-Percy
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Agnew’s previous experience campaigning
-Ambition
-Publicity
Agnew
-Possible foreign travel
-Asia
-William P. Rogers
-Europe
-Middle East
-Egypt
-Peace settlement
-Interim agreement
-Suez Canal
-Egypt, Algeria, Israel
-Role in administration
-Intergovernmental relations
-Governors
-42-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
-Quell newspaper speculation
*****************************************************************
[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
1976 election
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Agnew, Reagan, and Rockefeller
-John B. Connally
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
*****************************************************************
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Domestic policy
-Intergovernmental relations
-First 1968 campaign trip
-Press attacks
-President’s previous Cabinet meeting
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-President’s warning
-Credibility
-Impact on Agnew’s friends
-Role in administration
-Intergovernmental relations
-Cole
-Policy making
-Meetings
-Cabinet, National Security Council [NSC]
-Quadriad
-Wage, price control
-Political overtones in economy
-Access to President
-43-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
-Haldeman’s role
-Stephen B. Bull
-Role in administration
-Cole
-Domestic Council
-Vice Chairman
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:16 pm.
Bull’s location
Cole
-Presence at present meeting
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Domestic Council
-Vice Chairman
-Cole’s role
-Senators, Congressmen
-Possible statements on Watergate
-Magazine reports on statements regarding President
-Agnew’s goals
-Richardson’s advice
-Ziegler
-Goldwater
-Statements by Percy and Goldwater
-Special Prosecutor
-Press treatment
-Cessation of statements
-Offer of assistance to President
Cole entered at 4:35 pm.
-44-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Domestic Council
-Vice Chairman
-Staff
-Intergovernmental relations
-Governors
-Quadriad meeting, May 2
-Bull
-Cole’s, Agnew’s attendance
-George P. Shultz
-Domestic Council
-Quadriad meetings
-Shultz
Cole left at 4:39 pm.
Watergate
-Possible statements by Agnew
-Integrity of President
-Duration
-Mitchell
-Public reaction
-Maurice H. Stans
-John W. Dean, III’s involvement
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Guilt
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Dean
-Ehrlichman and Robert L. Vesco
-Double standard
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Agnew
-Relations with press
-Cabinet
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Mitchell
-45-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
-Prosecution
-Richardson
-Appointment
-Support
-“Eastern establishment”
-Prospects for administration
-Ervin Committee
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Mitchell
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Publicity
-Statement regarding Haldeman
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Agnew’s possible statements
-Cabinet
-Harold L. Ickes
-Agnew’s avoidance
President’s previous meeting with Willy Brandt
Berlin
-Future
US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Detente
-Soviet Jewry
-President’s meeting with Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson, Abraham A.
Ribicoff, Jacob K. Javits, and Agnew
-USSR position
-Diplomatic cable
-Accommodation
-Domestic affairs
Public relations
-Announcement
-Agnew’s Vice Chairmanship
-46-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:39 pm.
Meeting with Ziegler
-Announcement
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:48 pm.
President’s previous meeting regarding Soviet Jewry
-Senators’ reaction
-Jackson’s constituency
-Candidacy for President
-US military aid for Israel
-“Hardline”
-Jews
Jews
-Political constituency
-Agnew
-Baltimore
-President
-Maintenance
-Soviet Jewry
-President’s meeting with Jewish leaders, April 19
Ziegler entered at 4:48 pm.
Agnew’s role in administration
-Domestic Council
-Cole
-Vice Chairman
-Intergovernmental relations
-Quadriad
-Announcement
Watergate
-Agnew’s possible statements
-President’s comments in previous Cabinet meeting
-47-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
-Percy
-President’s instructions to Cabinet
-Richardson’s opinion
-Leonard Garment
-Special Prosecutor
-Percy’s statement
-Richardson
-Agnew’s previous statements
-Press coverage
-Time, Newsweek
President’s meeting with Agnew
-Agnew’s role in administration
-Vice Chairman of Domestic Council
-Governors, mayors, county officials
-Announcement
Previous Cabinet meeting
-Announcement
-Rogers C. B. Morton’s health
Ziegler’s morale
Agnew’s morale
-President’s speech
Watergate
-Departures of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Compared with Sherman Adams and Eisenhower
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] guards in office
-President’s reaction
-William P. Rogers
-Memorandum
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s papers
-Orders
-Press reports
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s wishes
-48-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
-Richardson, William D. Ruckelshaus, and Leonard Garment
-Cosmetics, perceptions
-President’s reaction
-President’s statement in Cabinet meeting
-Richardson
-Press story
-Garment
-United Press International [UPI]
-Handling of papers
-President’s meeting with Agnew
-Possible relations with press
-Avoidance of confrontation
-Maryland Press Association
-Agnew’s conversation with William S. White
-Agnew
-Possible statements on Watergate
-Previous statement on Watergate
-Relations with press
-Tone of White House
-White House staff
-Press
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Use of offices
-Dean
-Treatment by White House
Ash
Shultz
Agnew’s role in administration
-Quadriad meeting
-NSC, Congressional leaders meetings
-Press announcement
-Domestic Council
-Cole
-49-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.
*****************************************************************
[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Agnew’s meeting with Republicans
-Arkansas
-Pennsylvania
-Liberal contingent
-Clifford L. Jones
-Sarah Ann (“Sally”) Stauffer
-Thomas B. McCabe
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
*****************************************************************
Eastern liberals
-President’s counterattack
-New York-Washington, DC axis
-People’s Republic of China [PRC], USSR, Vietnam War
-Bombing in Cambodia
-Legal justification
-Violations
President’s decisions
-Haiphong harbor
Watergate
-Agnew’s possible statements
-Press
Agnew
-Political ambitions
President’s, Agnew’s schedules
-50-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
The President and Agnew left at 5:10 pm.
Date: May 1, 1973
Time: 4:16 pm - 5:10 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown man.
Spiro T. Agnew’s arrival
The President met with Agnew.
Watergate
-President’s previous Cabinet meeting
-President’s comments
-40-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
-Charles H. Percy, Jr.
-Percy
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Agnew’s telephone call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Grand jury investigation of Spiro T. Agnew
-President’s instructions to Haldeman
-J. Glenn Beall, Jr.
-George Beall
-Prosecutor
-Agnew’s possible statements
-Percy
-Agnew’s press conference, April 30
-Agnew’s possible statements
-Agnew, Ronald W. Reagan, and Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Agnew’s possible statements
-President with Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John D. Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and John N. Mitchell
-Agnew’s knowledge
-Assistance to President
-Press
-Previous attacks on press
-November 3, 1969 speech
-1976 election
-Possible press attacks on Agnew
-Agnew’s possible role in second term
-Effects on administration
-Mitchell’s indictment
-Haldeman’s telephone call to Agnew
Agnew
-Relationships
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible role in administration
-Help
Wounded Knee incident
-Law and order
-41-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
Watergate
-George H. W. Bush’s comments
-Anne L. Armstrong’s comments
Agnew
-Possible role in administration
-Foreign travel
-Vietnam War
Congressional relations
-Agnew’s role
-Percy
-Edward W. Brooke
-Support for administration
-Percy
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Agnew’s previous experience campaigning
-Ambition
-Publicity
Agnew
-Possible foreign travel
-Asia
-William P. Rogers
-Europe
-Middle East
-Egypt
-Peace settlement
-Interim agreement
-Suez Canal
-Egypt, Algeria, Israel
-Role in administration
-Intergovernmental relations
-Governors
-42-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
-Quell newspaper speculation
*****************************************************************
[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
1976 election
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Agnew, Reagan, and Rockefeller
-John B. Connally
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
*****************************************************************
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Domestic policy
-Intergovernmental relations
-First 1968 campaign trip
-Press attacks
-President’s previous Cabinet meeting
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-President’s warning
-Credibility
-Impact on Agnew’s friends
-Role in administration
-Intergovernmental relations
-Cole
-Policy making
-Meetings
-Cabinet, National Security Council [NSC]
-Quadriad
-Wage, price control
-Political overtones in economy
-Access to President
-43-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
-Haldeman’s role
-Stephen B. Bull
-Role in administration
-Cole
-Domestic Council
-Vice Chairman
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:16 pm.
Bull’s location
Cole
-Presence at present meeting
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Domestic Council
-Vice Chairman
-Cole’s role
-Senators, Congressmen
-Possible statements on Watergate
-Magazine reports on statements regarding President
-Agnew’s goals
-Richardson’s advice
-Ziegler
-Goldwater
-Statements by Percy and Goldwater
-Special Prosecutor
-Press treatment
-Cessation of statements
-Offer of assistance to President
Cole entered at 4:35 pm.
-44-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Domestic Council
-Vice Chairman
-Staff
-Intergovernmental relations
-Governors
-Quadriad meeting, May 2
-Bull
-Cole’s, Agnew’s attendance
-George P. Shultz
-Domestic Council
-Quadriad meetings
-Shultz
Cole left at 4:39 pm.
Watergate
-Possible statements by Agnew
-Integrity of President
-Duration
-Mitchell
-Public reaction
-Maurice H. Stans
-John W. Dean, III’s involvement
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Guilt
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Dean
-Ehrlichman and Robert L. Vesco
-Double standard
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Agnew
-Relations with press
-Cabinet
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Mitchell
-45-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
-Prosecution
-Richardson
-Appointment
-Support
-“Eastern establishment”
-Prospects for administration
-Ervin Committee
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Mitchell
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Publicity
-Statement regarding Haldeman
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Agnew’s possible statements
-Cabinet
-Harold L. Ickes
-Agnew’s avoidance
President’s previous meeting with Willy Brandt
Berlin
-Future
US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Detente
-Soviet Jewry
-President’s meeting with Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson, Abraham A.
Ribicoff, Jacob K. Javits, and Agnew
-USSR position
-Diplomatic cable
-Accommodation
-Domestic affairs
Public relations
-Announcement
-Agnew’s Vice Chairmanship
-46-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:39 pm.
Meeting with Ziegler
-Announcement
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:48 pm.
President’s previous meeting regarding Soviet Jewry
-Senators’ reaction
-Jackson’s constituency
-Candidacy for President
-US military aid for Israel
-“Hardline”
-Jews
Jews
-Political constituency
-Agnew
-Baltimore
-President
-Maintenance
-Soviet Jewry
-President’s meeting with Jewish leaders, April 19
Ziegler entered at 4:48 pm.
Agnew’s role in administration
-Domestic Council
-Cole
-Vice Chairman
-Intergovernmental relations
-Quadriad
-Announcement
Watergate
-Agnew’s possible statements
-President’s comments in previous Cabinet meeting
-47-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
-Percy
-President’s instructions to Cabinet
-Richardson’s opinion
-Leonard Garment
-Special Prosecutor
-Percy’s statement
-Richardson
-Agnew’s previous statements
-Press coverage
-Time, Newsweek
President’s meeting with Agnew
-Agnew’s role in administration
-Vice Chairman of Domestic Council
-Governors, mayors, county officials
-Announcement
Previous Cabinet meeting
-Announcement
-Rogers C. B. Morton’s health
Ziegler’s morale
Agnew’s morale
-President’s speech
Watergate
-Departures of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Compared with Sherman Adams and Eisenhower
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] guards in office
-President’s reaction
-William P. Rogers
-Memorandum
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s papers
-Orders
-Press reports
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s wishes
-48-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
-Richardson, William D. Ruckelshaus, and Leonard Garment
-Cosmetics, perceptions
-President’s reaction
-President’s statement in Cabinet meeting
-Richardson
-Press story
-Garment
-United Press International [UPI]
-Handling of papers
-President’s meeting with Agnew
-Possible relations with press
-Avoidance of confrontation
-Maryland Press Association
-Agnew’s conversation with William S. White
-Agnew
-Possible statements on Watergate
-Previous statement on Watergate
-Relations with press
-Tone of White House
-White House staff
-Press
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Use of offices
-Dean
-Treatment by White House
Ash
Shultz
Agnew’s role in administration
-Quadriad meeting
-NSC, Congressional leaders meetings
-Press announcement
-Domestic Council
-Cole
-49-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.
*****************************************************************
[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Agnew’s meeting with Republicans
-Arkansas
-Pennsylvania
-Liberal contingent
-Clifford L. Jones
-Sarah Ann (“Sally”) Stauffer
-Thomas B. McCabe
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
*****************************************************************
Eastern liberals
-President’s counterattack
-New York-Washington, DC axis
-People’s Republic of China [PRC], USSR, Vietnam War
-Bombing in Cambodia
-Legal justification
-Violations
President’s decisions
-Haiphong harbor
Watergate
-Agnew’s possible statements
-Press
Agnew
-Political ambitions
President’s, Agnew’s schedules
-50-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 908-24 (cont’d)
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
The President and Agnew left at 5:10 pm.