Date: May 17, 1973
Time: 8:07 pm - 8:17 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Watergate
-Ervin Committee
-Testimony
-Bruce A. Kehrli and Robert C. Odle, Jr.
The President conferred with Julie Nixon Eisenhower at an unknown time.
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Greetings
President’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 46-111 (cont’d)
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Watergate
-Ervin Committee
-Popular interest
-Nielsen ratings
-White House staff changes
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Ziegler
-Ervin Committee
-Popular reaction
-White House reaction to Watergate
-Opinions of [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-White House reaction
-Ziegler, Haig, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. and Leonard Garment
-Unknown New York doctor
-Popular support for the President
-Effect of hearings
-President’s public appearances
-White House reaction
-John W. Dean, III’s appearance on Walter Cronkite’s show
-Popular support for the President
-White House reaction
-Dean, James W. McCord, Jeb Stuart Magruder and G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Possible effect on the presidency