Date: May 1, 1973

Time: 2:59 pm – 3:01 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See also Conversation No. 433-27]

Watergate

-Ziegler’s press briefing

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] activities with the files

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman

-Leonard Garment’s memorandum

-Dismissal of Garment

-Garment’s Jewish background

-Ziegler’s press briefing

-Elliot L. Richardson’s authority

-Washington Post

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. October-2012)

-Attitude of press

-President’s instructions to Ziegler

-Cabinet meeting

-New staff members

-Resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman