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447-022a
- President Richard M. Nixon
- Ronald L. Ziegler
- UNKNOWN
- Alexander M. Haig
- Henry A. Kissinger
June 19, 1973
Conversation No. 447-22
Date: June 19, 1973
Time: 2:00 pm - 2:59 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Sequoia
-Timing
-Possible demonstrations
-Jews [?]
-Afternoon meeting
-Mount Vernon
-Helicopter to Camp David
-Return to White House, June 22, 1973
-Leak by Viktor Louis [?]
-Friday [June 22, 1973] announcement
-Henry A. Kissinger’s concern
-Photograph opportunity, June 22, 1973
-George P. Shultz
-Camp David
-San Clemente
-Reception, June 23, 1973
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 2:00 pm.
Unknown matter
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:31 pm.
Brezhnev visit
-Signing ceremony
-Photograph opportunity
-Economic meeting
-Sequoia
-Shultz, Nikolai S. Patolichev
-Press relations
-Secret Service
-Photographs
-Camp David
-Importance
-Sequoia
-Economic meeting
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
-Shultz
-Camp David
-Photograph
-Shultz
-Economic agreement briefing
-Press relations
-Questions to Brezhnev
-Stephen B. Bull
-“Badgering”
-Women reporters
-Handshaking
-Soviet media
-Ziegler’s possible action
Press relations
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Helen Thomas’s stories
-Washington Post
-Possible apology
-Comments about President
-Telephone calls to Betty Beall and Thomas
-Thomas
-Ziegler
-Future interactions with President
-Martha Mitchell
-[First name unknown] Fischer
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Schedule
Brezhnev visit
-Communique
-Timing
John A. Love
-21-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
-Announcement of White House staff position
-Energy
-Dean’s testimony
Watergate
-Dean
-Handling of funds
-Press coverage
-$4,000, $14,000
-Safety deposit box
-J. Fred Buzhardt
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Prosecutors
-Evidence
-Testimony
-Ziegler’s conversations with Richard A. Moore [?]
-Evidence against Dean [?]
-Leaks [?]
-Ervin Committee
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Edward J. Gurney
-Buzhardt’s view
-White House response
-Buzhardt, Leonard Garment, Charles A. Wright
-Press relations
-White House staff
-Popular opinion
-Archibald Cox
-Ziegler’s conversation with Buzhardt, Garment and Wright, June 19, 1973
-Possible defense by a Senator
-White House response
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Prosecutors
-White House response
-Garment’s telephone calls to Senators
-Buzhardt
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
-Cox
-Summit, President’s accomplishments
-Effect on White House staff
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Conversation with Ziegler, June 18, 1973
-Phil Donahue interview
-White House response
-Timing
-Dean
-California
-Press relations
-Intelligence
-Camp David [?]
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-White House response
-Strategy
-Senators’ possible response
-White House response
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s view
-White House staff and press
-Past statements
-Ziegler’s beliefs
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Staff statements
The President met with an unknown man.
Russian vodka
-Sequoia
-Camp David
-Soviet rooms
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:31 pm.
Watergate
-Dean
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Timing
The President talked with Haig at an unknown time between 2:00 pm and 2:31 pm.
[Conversation No. 447-22A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
President’s schedule
-Melvin R. Laird
Patrick J. Buchanan
Brezhnev’s schedule
-Mt. Vernon
-President’s conversation with an unknown person
-Helicopter
-Driving
President’s schedule
-Laird
[End telephone conversation]
Brezhnev’s schedule
-Camp David
-Driving
-Thurmont
-Mt. Vernon
Watergate
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-White House response
Kissinger talked with the President between 2:31 pm and 2:36 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
[Conversation No. 447-22B]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 41-16]
[End telephone conversation]
Brezhnev visit
-Sequoia
-Ziegler’s schedule
-Forthcoming briefings
-Leonid Zamyatin
-Sequoia
-Zamyatin
-Dinner
-Ambassadorial rank
-Telegrafnoye Agentstvo Sovetskovo Soyuza [Telegraph Agency
of the Soviet Union] [TASS]
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-John B. Connally
-Forthcoming conversation with Ziegler
-Potential Soviet clients
-Air travel to San Clemente
-Private dinner
-Media relations
-Speculation
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger and Haig
-Helicopter
-Photograph opportunities
-Camp David
-Zamyatin
-San Clemente
-Agreement signing
-Camp David
-Stairs
-25-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
-Golf course
-President and Brezhnev
-Walking
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Soviet photographers
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Press relations
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Gurney [?]
-White House response
Brezhnev visit
-Rogers’s view
-View
Watergate
-Hearings
-Dean
-Ziegler’s belief
-White House response
-Timing
-Press conference
Brezhnev visit
-President’s possible report to nation
-Kissinger’s view
-Communique
-Departing statement by President and Brezhnev
-Preparation
-Delivery
Watergate
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Ziegler’s belief
-Prosecutors
-26-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
-Immunity
-Charges
Brezhnev’s schedule
-Sequoia
-Camp David
-Travel by automobile
The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 2:00 pm and 2:31 pm.
[Conversation No. 447-22C]
[Begin telephone conversation]
Brezhnev’s schedule
-Camp David
-Travel by automobile
-Sequoia
-Sequoia
-Soviet sensitivities
[End telephone conversation]
Brezhnev’s schedule
-Camp David
-Travel by automobile
-Sequoia
-Kissinger’s view
-Mt. Vernon
-George Washington’s home
-Sequoia
Brezhnev
-Strategic abilities
-Political skill
-Relations with people
-Comparison to Irish ward politician
-27-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
-Receiving line
-Jews [?]
-Undersecretaries
-Bravery
-Bodyguard and translator [?]
Treaty signing
-Ziegler’s conversation with Zamyatin
-Prisoners of War [POWs] room
-Media relations
-Size of press corps
Brezhnev visit
-Communique
-Ziegler’s conversation with Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-Press relations
-Relations between President and Brezhnev
-Kissinger [?]
-Text of speech
-Sonnenfeldt
-Media relations
-Cooperation
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Sequoia
-Ziegler and Zamyatin
-Camp David
-Camp David
-Economic meeting
Ziegler left at 2:59 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Date: June 19, 1973
Time: 2:00 pm - 2:59 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
-19-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Sequoia
-Timing
-Possible demonstrations
-Jews [?]
-Afternoon meeting
-Mount Vernon
-Helicopter to Camp David
-Return to White House, June 22, 1973
-Leak by Viktor Louis [?]
-Friday [June 22, 1973] announcement
-Henry A. Kissinger’s concern
-Photograph opportunity, June 22, 1973
-George P. Shultz
-Camp David
-San Clemente
-Reception, June 23, 1973
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 2:00 pm.
Unknown matter
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:31 pm.
Brezhnev visit
-Signing ceremony
-Photograph opportunity
-Economic meeting
-Sequoia
-Shultz, Nikolai S. Patolichev
-Press relations
-Secret Service
-Photographs
-Camp David
-Importance
-Sequoia
-Economic meeting
-20-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
-Shultz
-Camp David
-Photograph
-Shultz
-Economic agreement briefing
-Press relations
-Questions to Brezhnev
-Stephen B. Bull
-“Badgering”
-Women reporters
-Handshaking
-Soviet media
-Ziegler’s possible action
Press relations
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Helen Thomas’s stories
-Washington Post
-Possible apology
-Comments about President
-Telephone calls to Betty Beall and Thomas
-Thomas
-Ziegler
-Future interactions with President
-Martha Mitchell
-[First name unknown] Fischer
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Schedule
Brezhnev visit
-Communique
-Timing
John A. Love
-21-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
-Announcement of White House staff position
-Energy
-Dean’s testimony
Watergate
-Dean
-Handling of funds
-Press coverage
-$4,000, $14,000
-Safety deposit box
-J. Fred Buzhardt
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Prosecutors
-Evidence
-Testimony
-Ziegler’s conversations with Richard A. Moore [?]
-Evidence against Dean [?]
-Leaks [?]
-Ervin Committee
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Edward J. Gurney
-Buzhardt’s view
-White House response
-Buzhardt, Leonard Garment, Charles A. Wright
-Press relations
-White House staff
-Popular opinion
-Archibald Cox
-Ziegler’s conversation with Buzhardt, Garment and Wright, June 19, 1973
-Possible defense by a Senator
-White House response
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Prosecutors
-White House response
-Garment’s telephone calls to Senators
-Buzhardt
-Timing
-22-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
-Cox
-Summit, President’s accomplishments
-Effect on White House staff
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Conversation with Ziegler, June 18, 1973
-Phil Donahue interview
-White House response
-Timing
-Dean
-California
-Press relations
-Intelligence
-Camp David [?]
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-White House response
-Strategy
-Senators’ possible response
-White House response
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s view
-White House staff and press
-Past statements
-Ziegler’s beliefs
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Staff statements
The President met with an unknown man.
Russian vodka
-Sequoia
-Camp David
-Soviet rooms
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:31 pm.
Watergate
-Dean
-23-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Timing
The President talked with Haig at an unknown time between 2:00 pm and 2:31 pm.
[Conversation No. 447-22A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
President’s schedule
-Melvin R. Laird
Patrick J. Buchanan
Brezhnev’s schedule
-Mt. Vernon
-President’s conversation with an unknown person
-Helicopter
-Driving
President’s schedule
-Laird
[End telephone conversation]
Brezhnev’s schedule
-Camp David
-Driving
-Thurmont
-Mt. Vernon
Watergate
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-White House response
Kissinger talked with the President between 2:31 pm and 2:36 pm.
-24-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
[Conversation No. 447-22B]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 41-16]
[End telephone conversation]
Brezhnev visit
-Sequoia
-Ziegler’s schedule
-Forthcoming briefings
-Leonid Zamyatin
-Sequoia
-Zamyatin
-Dinner
-Ambassadorial rank
-Telegrafnoye Agentstvo Sovetskovo Soyuza [Telegraph Agency
of the Soviet Union] [TASS]
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-John B. Connally
-Forthcoming conversation with Ziegler
-Potential Soviet clients
-Air travel to San Clemente
-Private dinner
-Media relations
-Speculation
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger and Haig
-Helicopter
-Photograph opportunities
-Camp David
-Zamyatin
-San Clemente
-Agreement signing
-Camp David
-Stairs
-25-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
-Golf course
-President and Brezhnev
-Walking
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Soviet photographers
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Press relations
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Gurney [?]
-White House response
Brezhnev visit
-Rogers’s view
-View
Watergate
-Hearings
-Dean
-Ziegler’s belief
-White House response
-Timing
-Press conference
Brezhnev visit
-President’s possible report to nation
-Kissinger’s view
-Communique
-Departing statement by President and Brezhnev
-Preparation
-Delivery
Watergate
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Ziegler’s belief
-Prosecutors
-26-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
-Immunity
-Charges
Brezhnev’s schedule
-Sequoia
-Camp David
-Travel by automobile
The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 2:00 pm and 2:31 pm.
[Conversation No. 447-22C]
[Begin telephone conversation]
Brezhnev’s schedule
-Camp David
-Travel by automobile
-Sequoia
-Sequoia
-Soviet sensitivities
[End telephone conversation]
Brezhnev’s schedule
-Camp David
-Travel by automobile
-Sequoia
-Kissinger’s view
-Mt. Vernon
-George Washington’s home
-Sequoia
Brezhnev
-Strategic abilities
-Political skill
-Relations with people
-Comparison to Irish ward politician
-27-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
Conversation No. 447-22 (cont’d)
-Receiving line
-Jews [?]
-Undersecretaries
-Bravery
-Bodyguard and translator [?]
Treaty signing
-Ziegler’s conversation with Zamyatin
-Prisoners of War [POWs] room
-Media relations
-Size of press corps
Brezhnev visit
-Communique
-Ziegler’s conversation with Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-Press relations
-Relations between President and Brezhnev
-Kissinger [?]
-Text of speech
-Sonnenfeldt
-Media relations
-Cooperation
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Sequoia
-Ziegler and Zamyatin
-Camp David
-Camp David
-Economic meeting
Ziegler left at 2:59 pm.
-28-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)