Secret White House Tapes

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937–8
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
June 12, 1973
Conversation No. 937-8

Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 10:03 am - 10:25 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate
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Conversation No. 937-8 (cont’d)

-London Sunday Express article
-Distribution

-John W. Dean, III

-George H. W. Bush

-Congress members

-Bush

-Press coverage

-London Times

-White House staff roles

-Charles W. Colson

-Ziegler

-Herbert G. Klein

-Ziegler’s statement

-London Sunday Express editorial


Vietnam negotiations
-Status
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s conversation with Ziegler
-Popular opinion
-Compared to December 1972
-Prisoners of War [POWs]

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-Henry A. Kissinger

-South Vietnam’s concerns

-Territory compared to Watergate

-North Vietnam


Press coverage
-Gerald L. Warren’s press briefings
-Subjects covered
-Vietnam negotiations, economy

Watergate
-Dean
-Immunity
-John J. Sirica’s action
-Ziegler’s conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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Conversation No. 937-8 (cont’d)

-Ervin Committee hearings
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Use immunity
-Buzhardt’s contacts with Edward W. Brooke and Barry M.
Goldwater, Jr.
-An unnamed associate of Buzhardt’s contacts with columnists
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson, James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Possible perjury
-Prosecutor’s letter
-News leads
-Spiro T. Agnew’s speech
-President’s meeting with Kissinger, June 11, 1973
-David S. Broder’s column, June 12, 1973
-President’s supporters
-Melvin R. Laird, John B. Connally
-Aram Bakshian’s article in New York Times
-Charles II of England
-London Sunday Express editorial
-Distribution
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Agnew
-Anne L. Armstrong’s press briefing, June 13, 1973
-Subjects covered
-Ziegler’s forthcoming telephone call
-President’s accomplishments
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s statement concerning forthcoming Leonid I.
Brezhnev visit
-Haig’s report on Senator’s opposition
-William E. Timmons’s efforts
-Goldwater, Brooke, Mark O. Hatfield
-White House staff
-Bryce N. Harlow’s forthcoming role
-Ziegler’s role
-Telephone calls to Hatfield, Brooke
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Dean
-Buzhardt
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Conversation No. 937-8 (cont’d)

-Cross-examination
-Buzhardt and Fred D. Thompson
-Howard H. Baker. Jr.
-Dean’s testimony
-White House response
-Rogers C. B. Morton, Earl L. Butz
-Goldwater, Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Marlow W. Cook
-John C. Stennis, Edward Herbert, James M. Collins [?]
-Dean
-Popular opinion
-White House response
-Bush
-William J. Baroody, Jr. and staff
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] story
-Haig, Richardson

-Tone of news

-Buchanan’s article

-Distribution
-News story concerning Archibald Cox’s staff
-London Sunday Express editorial

Press relations

-Ziegler’s schedule

-Press briefings

-Warren

-Communications staff

-Harlow

-Timing of announcement


Ronald Ziegler left at 10:25 am.
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