Secret White House Tapes

913–3

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913–3
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
May 8, 1973
Conversation No. 913-3

Date: May 8, 1973
Time: 5:16 pm - 5:42 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate
-John W. Dean III
-Possible immunity by Ervin Committee
-Possible testimony
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, John N. Mitchell and
President
-Meetings with President
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Guidance to White House
-Expression of confidence by White House on March 26
-Diane Sawyer
-James W. McCord, Jr.’s letter
-Ziegler’s conversation with Richard A. Moore
-Gerald L. Warren’s opinion of Dean’s confidence
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2012)

Conversation No. 913-3 (cont’d)

-Investigation of Watergate

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] interviews

-Access to records

-Moore

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-Possible attacks on President

-Time cover
-William Proxmire
-Attack on press, May 8
-Dean
-Meetings with President

-President’s concerns in Autumn 1972

-Guidance sessions with Ziegler

-President’s perceptions

-Haldeman’s remembrance

-Praise by President

-Ehrlichman and Haldeman

-Possible testimony before Ervin Committee

-Attacks on President

-Possible response

-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-President
-Senate
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-Meeting, March 10
-Moore and Ehrlichman
-Donald H. Segretti
-Haldeman
-Funds for defendants
-President’s knowledge
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Knowledge

-Intent

-$350,000

-Herbert W. Kalmbach

-President’s meeting with Thomas A. Pappas

-Mitchell

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2012)

Conversation No. 913-3 (cont’d)

-Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem
-President’s statement concerning John F. Kennedy’s role at press conference
-New York Times
-Forged cable
-Charles W. Colson
-Marguerite Higgins’s book, Our Vietnam Nightmare
-Malcom E. Smith, Jr.’s book, Kennedy’s Thirteen Great Mistakes in the
White House
-Colson and Cable
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with New York Times
-Timing of President’s previous statements
-Death of Diem
-Dean
-Documents
-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
-Ziegler’s forthcoming meeting with Senate Committee staff members
-Ziegler’s notes
-Questions on Watergate
-Dean
-Investigation of Watergate

-Comment to Warren

-Warren’s notes

-Possible testimony before Ervin Committee
-Grand jury
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Rose
-Executive privilege

-Haig’s view

-Dean

-White House position

-President’s papers

-Conversation with President

-Criminal activity

-National security

-J. Edgar Hoover’s activities

-Dean

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. January-2012)

Conversation No. 913-3 (cont’d)

-Possible White House counterattack
-Leaks
-Subornation of perjury
-Magruder
-Role
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Conversations with President
-March 21, 1971

Ziegler left at 5:42 pm.
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