Secret White House Tapes

926–2

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926–2
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
  • UNKNOWN
May 23, 1973
Conversation No. 926-2

Date: May 23, 1973
Time: 8:23 am - 8:36 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate

-White House response

-White Paper [Statements about Watergate Investigation, May 22, 1973]
-National security focus
-Statement by Spiro Agnew
-Ziegler’s schedule

-Press briefing

-2-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)

Conversation No. 926-2 (cont’d)

-Hugh Scott
-Scott
-Possible statement
-Declassification of Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs
documents

White House staff
-Bryce N. Harlow’s role

Watergate
-Congressional response
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons] and
Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Accusation regarding James R. Schlesinger

-Leonard Garment[?]

White House response

-National security

-White Paper

-Cover statement
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Funds for defendants
-President’s knowledge
-President’s conversation with John W.
Dean III, March 21
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-President’s knowledge
-President’s knowledge
-Conversations with Dean
-Necessity for truth
-Timing of President’s knowledge
-Timing of President’s knowledge
-$350,000
-President’s investigation
-3-


NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. August-2011)

Conversation No. 926-2 (cont’d)

-President’s knowledge
-Funds for defendants
-Cover-up
-President’s conversation with Dean, March 21
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and attorney
-Kalmbach
-$350,000
-Haldeman
-Cover-up
-President’s conversation with Dean, March 21
-Dean’s knowledge
-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield’s visit to McCord
-Dean’s conversations with the President
-Content
-CIA payroll story

-Timing

-Content

-Dean’s report
-John N. Mitchell
-Possible conflict with Jeb S[tuart] Magruder
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Elliot L. Richardson’s meeting with Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. in John D.
Ehrlichman’s office, April 30
-White House response
-President’s knowledge
-Conversations with Dean
-$350,000
-Kalmbach
-Funds for defendants

-Intent

-Special Prosecutor

-Possible delay in criminal actions


An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:23 am.

President’s schedule
-4-


NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. August-2011)

Conversation No. 926-2 (cont’d)

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:36 am.

Watergate
-Special Prosecutor
-Possible delay in criminal actions
-CIA
-President’s motives

The President and Ziegler left at 8:36 am.
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