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)

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[End conferral]

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

-Compared with 1972 campaign