Date: April 30, 1973
Time: 8:58 pm – 9:27 pm
Location: Oval Office
Unknown television crew members were present.
President’s forthcoming speech
-Air time
The President entered at 8:58 pm. Members of the press and the White House photographer
were present at the beginning of this meeting.
President’s forthcoming speech
-Air time
-Watch
Professional football
-Washington Redskins
-New York Giants
Baseball
Bowling
-President’s average
-Compared to golf
President’s forthcoming speech
-Air time
-Improvisation
-Arrangements
-Lights
-Reading
-Air time
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2012)
The President delivered his “Address to the Nation about Watergate Investigations” to a
nationwide television [TV] and radio audience between 9:00 pm and 9:27 pm.
[A transcript of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States:
Richard Nixon, Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President,
1973, pages 134 and 328-33.]
[A transcript of the following speech was also prepared Richard Nixon’s Special White House
Counsel for Watergate Matters and submitted to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of
Representatives. This transcript can be found in Submission of Recorded Presidential
Conversations (SRPC), pages 1294-1308 (1-15). Please refer to the Public Papers of the
President transcript.]
[Begin recorded remarks]
[End of recorded remarks]
End of transmission
-Payment [?]
Technicians’ wives
President’s speech
President’s departure
The President left at 9:27 pm.
Breakdown of equipment
Transmission, reception
-Black-and-white TV sets
-Signal [?]
The recording was cut off at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.