October 24, 1973

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• Original typewritten diary (PDF)

The President's day began at Camp David, Maryland

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• Veto of the War Powers Resolution
• Executive Order 11744—Cost-of-Living Allowance Provided to Employees of the Joint Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission for Alaska

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• Federal Register of Wednesday, October 24, 1973

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• House of Representatives: October 24, 1973
• Extensions of Remarks: October 24, 1973

Selective document listing

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• News Summaries, Unmarked News Summaries, Box 62, News Summaries - October 1973 [15 of 20] [Note: Due to the way News Summary products were compiled, you should also consult nearby days for potentially relevant materials.]
  • News Summary, Oct. 24, 1973, (Tues. nets, wires, papers)

Among Pat Buchanan’s duties was the compilation and coordination of background briefing materials for Presidential and a few Vice Presidential press conferences. The briefings—for both the larger, announced press conferences and the smaller, informal ones held in the Oval Office—related to a widespread number of topics and were in the form of probable questions which the White House staff members anticipated news reporters would address to the President. Along with the questions, were answers recommended by Buchanan, other members of the White House staff, and the heads of major departments of the government.

The briefing books are primarily in the form of potential questions and suggested answers (often with heavy annotation by President Nixon), along with associated memos. A listing of briefing books is below, with indication of whether President Nixon annotated the book or not. Each book has an index to the potential questions with direct links to the National Archives Catalog. You should consult the full digital folder for suggested responses, President Nixon's annotations, and other documents and topics not covered by the index.

PRESIDENT'S BRIEFING BOOK October 24, 1973 (Annotated)

Citation: PRESIDENT'S BRIEFING BOOK October 24, 1973; box 7; White House Central Files: Staff Member and Office Files: Patrick J. Buchanan; Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, CA

Consult the full digital folder for other briefing materials not in the form of prepared questions and answers.

• THE FIRING OF PROFESSOR COX
  • When did you decide to fire Professor Cox. There are reports that Saturday's decision had actually been made long ago, and the tapes was only a convenient excuse?
• TRAUMA OF THE WEEKEND
  • If you were going to give the tapes out, why did you sustain the loss of Mr. Cox, Mr. Richardson and Mr. Ruckelshaus, before so doing? Would it not have been easier to simply have turned the tapes over in the first place?
• WHY NOT LITIGATE?
  • Why did you not go to the Supreme Court or take Professor Cox's recommendation and have your "compromise" decided in Judge Sirica's Court?
• NEW SPECIAL PROSECUTOR
  • The GOP leadership in the Senate has unanimously recommended that you appoint a new Special Prosecutor. Is there any chance of that?
  • What will you do if the Senate votes a new Special Prosecutor?
• REQUESTS FOR TAPES, ETC.
  • If Mr. Bork or Mr. Petersen determine that they need tapes or other papers to prosecute successfully, and they go to Court to get those tapes, will you order them to desist and deny them that evidence?
  • But, didn't your directive to Professor Cox -- wherein he was to be provided the product of the tapes -- specifically forbid him from pursuing further any presidential papers?
• CONTENTS OF THE TAPES
  • Can you tell us what those tapes contain?
• WATERGATE COMMITTEE
  • Will the tapes be made available to the Watergate Committee, and to the American people?
• TO JUDGE SIRICA
  • When will the tapes go to Judge Sirica?
• IMPEACHMENT
  • You are lower in the national polls than ever, and you are closer to impeachment than any American President in a century. Can you tell us if this greatly concerns you?
• DID IMPEACHMENT THREAT SUCCEED?
  • Was it the threat of impeachment that convinced you to turn over the tapes?
• COMPACT WITH THE SENATE
  • Did your firing of Mr. Cox not destroy your compact with the Senate?
• "TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT"
  • How do you answer the charge that Professor Cox was fired because he was getting too close; he was too hot on the trail of wrong-doing, previously undisclosed, in the White House?
• ELLIOT RICHARDSON
  • Can you give us your opinion of Mr. Richardson and Mr. Ruckelshaus' decision to resign? Was Mr. Ruckelshaus fired?
• REBOZO
  • Did you know of the purpose of that $100,000 in Mr. Rebozo's safe? Was Bebe cleared accepting campaign contributions?
  • Were you aware of the fact that Mr. Rebozo or rather his friends got the franchise for a savings & loan, after the charter of a competitor bank on Key Biscayne was rejected, on similar grounds.
• GERALD FORD
  • Are you concerned by the reports that the Congress will hold hostage the nomination of Jerry Ford, until impeachment proceedings are voted up or down?
• GEORGE MEANY
  • Have you any comment on Mr. Meany's comments about your stability, or the AFL-CIO call for your impeachment?
• MIDDLE EAST -- STATUS OF ALERT
  • What is the current status of the U.S. alert?
• MIDDLE EAST -- SOVIETS SEND OBSERVERS
  • What is your reaction to Brezhnev's sending Soviet observers to Egypt and his call for the U.S. to do the same? Did you know about this in advance?
• MIDDLE EAST -- DÉTENTE
  • How has the Middle East crisis affected U.S.-USSR détente?
• MIDDLE EAST -- SOVIET THREAT OF INTERVENTION
  • Did the United States overreact yesterday by placing its forces on alert?
• MIDDLE EAST -- CEASEFIRE BREAKDOWN
  • Does the U.S. have any contingency plans should the ceasefire breakdown?
• MIDDLE EAST -- SOVIET INTERVENTION
  • What will the United States do; what can it do, if the Soviets move advisors, technicians or troops into the Middle East?
• MIDDLE EAST -- SUPPORT OF EUROPEAN ALLIES
  • Mr. President, do you agree with State Department spokesman McCloskey's statement that the Europeans separated themselves publicly from us on the Middle East crisis and that this raises questions as to whether US and European security is indivisible? And do you agree with Secretary Schlesinger's comment that West Germany's protest against our arms deliveries to Israel may "force the US to review the depth of our military and diplomatic commitment to Bonn?" What does this do to your Year of Europe initiative and how does it affect your European trip?

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• President's Daily Brief of 24 October 1973

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Vol. XV, Soviet Union, June 1972-August 1974

The October Arab-Israeli War and Kissinger's Trip to Moscow, July 1973-January 1974

• 147. Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin, Washington, October 24, 1973, 10:15 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Telephone Conversations (Telcons), Box 28, Chronological File. No classification marking.

Vol. XXV, Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1973

Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1973

• 254. Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Kissinger and the Israeli Ambassador (Dinitz), Washington, October 24, 1973, 9:22 a.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, Kissinger Telephone Conversations, Transcripts (Telcons), Chronological File, Box 23. No classification marking.

• 255. Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Kissinger and the Israeli Ambassador (Dinitz), Washington, October 24, 1973, 9:32 a.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, Kissinger Telephone Conversations, Transcripts (Telcons), Chronological File, Box 23. No classification marking. The blank underscores indicate omissions in the original.

• 256. Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Kissinger and the Soviet Ambassador (Dobrynin), Washington, October 24, 1973, 9:45 a.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, Kissinger Telephone Conversations, Transcripts (Telcons), Chronological File, Anatoli[y] Dobrynin File, Box 28. No classification marking.

• 258. Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Kissinger and the Soviet Ambassador (Dobrynin), Washington, October 24, 1973, 10:19 a.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, Kissinger Telephone Conversations, Transcripts (Telcons), Anatoli[y] Dobrynin File, Box 28. No classification marking. The blank underscores indicate omissions in the original.

• 259. Minutes of Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, Washington, October 24, 1973, 10:21-11:11 a.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, NSC Institutional Files (H–Files), Box H–117, WSAG Meetings Minutes, Originals, 1973. Top Secret; Nodis; Codeword. The meeting took place in the White House Situation Room.

• 260. Backchannel Message From Secretary of State Kissinger to the Egyptian Presidential Adviser for National Security Affairs (Ismail), Washington, October 24, 1973

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 132, Country Files, Middle East, Egypt/Ismail, Vol. VII, October 1–31, 1973. No classification marking. A handwritten note on the message indicates that it was transmitted on October 24 at 1:05 p.m.

• 261. Memorandum of Conversation, Washington, October 24, 1973, 1:05-2:42 p.m.

  Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Memoranda of Conversation, Box 2. Secret; Nodis. The luncheon meeting was held in the White House Map Room.

• 262. Message From Soviet General Secretary Brezhnev to President Nixon, Moscow, October 24, 1973

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 69, Country Files, Europe, USSR, Dobrynin/Kissinger, Vol. 20, [October 12–November 21, 1973]. No classification marking. A notation on the message states that it was delivered from the Soviet Embassy at 1:15 p.m. The message is attached to a note from Dobrynin to Kissinger stating that he was sending him the message he told him about that morning over the telephone. See Document 258.

• 263. Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Kissinger and the Israeli Ambassador (Dinitz), Washington, October 24, 1973, 3:40 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, Kissinger Telephone Conversations, Transcripts (Telcons), Chronological File, Box 23. No classification marking.

• 264. Briefing Memorandum From the Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (Cline) to Secretary of State Kissinger, Washington, October 24, 1973

  Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1970–73, POL 27–14 ARAB–ISR. Secret; Exdis. Drafted by Director of the Office of Research and Analysis for Near East and South Asia Curtis F. Jones; concurred in by INR Deputy Director David E. Mark.

• 266. Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Kissinger and the Soviet Ambassador (Dobrynin), Washington, October 24, 1973, 7:15 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, Kissinger Telephone Conversations, Transcripts (Telcons), Anatoli[y] Dobrynin File, Box 28. No classification marking.

• 268. Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Kissinger and the White House Chief of Staff (Haig), Washington, October 24, 1973, 9:50 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, Kissinger Telephone Conversations, Transcripts (Telcons), Chronological File, Box 23. No classification marking.

• 269. Memorandum for the Record, Washington, October 24, 1973, 10:30 p.m.-3:30 a.m.

  Source: National Archives, RG 218, Records of Admiral Thomas Moorer, Diary, October 1973. Top Secret; Sensitive—Hold Close. Prepared by Moorer on October 26. According to Kissinger’s Record of Schedule the following attended the meeting: Kissinger, Schlesinger, Colby, Moorer, Scowcroft, Haig, and Jonathan Howe. (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Kissinger Papers, Box 438, Miscellany, 1968–76) Kissinger later noted that the White House described this as an NSC meeting, while State Department records called it a WSAG “meeting of principals.” (Years of Upheaval, pp. 586–587) Cline called it a “curious little rump NSC meeting,” to which Colby was invited to “give a semblance of regularity to decision-making.” (Cline, “Policy Without Intelligence,” Foreign Policy, No. 17 (Winter 1974–1975), p. 128)

• 270. Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Kissinger and the Israeli Ambassador (Dinitz), Washington, October 24, 1973, 11:25 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, Kissinger Telephone Conversations, Transcripts (Telcons), Chronological File, Box 23. No classification marking.

• 271. Backchannel Message From President Nixon to Egyptian President Sadat, Washington, October 24, 1973

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 132, Country Files, Middle East, Egypt/Ismail, Vol. VII, October 1–31, 1973. No classification marking. A handwritten note on the message indicates that it was dispatched at 11:55 p.m. on October 24. It was sent in a message from Kissinger to Ismail. In his memoirs, Kissinger wrote that this message, approved during the 10:30 meeting, was an attempt to close off Soviet diplomatic options by inducing Cairo to withdraw its invitation to Moscow to send in Soviet troops. (Years of Upheaval, p. 588)

Vol. XXXVI, Energy Crisis, 1969-1974

October 6, 1973-March 22, 1974

• 226. Minutes of the Secretary of State’s Staff Meeting, Washington, October 24, 1973, 5:10 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, RG 59, Transcripts of Secretary of State Kissinger’s Staff Meetings, 1973–1977, Box 720, Secretary’s Staff Meetings, 9/73–10/73. Secret. According to an attached list, the following people attended the meeting: Kissinger, Rush, Kubisch, Casey, Hummel, Pickering, Ross, Springsteen, Lord, Eagleburger, McCloskey, and Atherton.

Vol. XXXVIII, Part 2, Organization and Management of Foreign Policy; Public Diplomacy, 1973-1976

Managing the Department of State

• 119. Telegram From the Department of State to All Diplomatic and Consular Posts, Washington, October 24, 1973, 0048Z

  Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Foreign Policy Files, 1973. Unclassified. Drafted by Pickering; cleared by Porter, Lord, and Eagleburger; and approved by Kissinger.

Vol. E-11, Part 1, Documents on Mexico; Central America; and the Caribbean, 1973-1976

El Salvador and Honduras

• 152. Telegram 209707 From the Department of State to the Embassy in El Salvador, Washington, October 24, 1973, 1613Z

  Summary: During a meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary Bowdler, Salvadoran emissary Alfredo Ortíz Mancía said that an impression existed within the Government of El Salvador that relations with the United States had cooled. Bowdler assured him that this was not the case and that the U.S. Government maintained a policy of evenhandedness in its relations with El Salvador and Honduras.
  
  Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Foreign Policy File, [no film number]. Confidential; Priority. Drafted by Lazar and approved by Bowdler. In an October 23 briefing memorandum, Lazar assured Bowdler that the U.S. Government had not leaked news of Israeli aircraft sales to El Salvador in an effort to influence negotiations between El Salvador and Honduras and had “deliberately refrained from taking sides,” scrupulously following a policy of “evenhandedness” in the provision of military equipment to both countries. (Ibid., ARA/CEN Files: Lot 75D469, El Salvador—Political 1973) According to telegram 233087 to San Salvador and Tegucigalpa, November 28, during a November 27 meeting with Bowdler, Ortíz Mancía asked the U.S. Government to help bring about a settlement of the border dispute. Bowdler replied that “any solution, to be effective, will have to be arrived at by agreement between the two countries and cannot be imposed upon them by any third party.” (Ibid., Central Foreign Policy File, [no film number])

Vol. E-14, Part 2, Documents on Arms Control and Nonproliferation, 1973-1976

• 20. Memorandum of Law Prepared in the Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser, Washington, October 24, 1973

  Summary: The memorandum addressed whether statutory restrictions on the transportation, testing, deployment, storage, and disposal of chemical and biological weapons were applicable to munitions currently under development by the Department of Defense.
  
  Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1970–73, POL 27–10. Limited Official Use. All brackets and ellipses are in the original. Attached as Tab C to Document 23.

The Kissinger telephone conversation transcripts consist of approximately 20,000 pages of transcripts of Kissinger’s telephone conversations during his tenure as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1969-1974) and Secretary of State (1973-1974) during the administration of President Richard Nixon. Visit the finding aid for more information.

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Roll WHPO-E1694 Photographer: Schumacher, Karl | Color or B&W: B&W

• Frame(s): WHPO-E1694-, Armstrong presentation. 10/24/1973, unknown unknown.

Roll WHPO-E1695 Photographer: Knudsen, Robert L. | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E1695-, Pat Nixon with Michael Newsome from Louisville, KY, the Muscular Dystrophy Poster Child of the Year. 10/24/1973, Washington D.C. White House. Pat Nixon, Michael Newsome.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E1695-09, Pat Nixon with Michael Newsome from Louisville, KY, the Muscular Dystrophy Poster Child of the Year. 10/24/1973, Washington D.C. White House. Pat Nixon, Michael Newsome.

Roll WHPO-E1696 Photographer: COPY | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E1696-, Portraits of Nola Smith. 10/24/1973, unknown unknown. Nola Smith.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E1696-02, Closeup portrait of Nola Smith. 10/24/1973, unknown unknown. Nola Smith.

Roll WHPO-E1697 Photographer: | Color or B&W: B&W

• Frame(s): WHPO-E1697-, Portraits of Nola Smith. 10/24/1973, unknown unknown. Nola Smith.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E1697-00, Portrait of Nola Smith sitting at her desk with paperwork. 10/24/1973, unknown unknown. Nola Smith.

Roll WHPO-E1698 Photographer: | Color or B&W: B&W

• Frame(s): WHPO-E1698-, Portraits of Nola Smith. Copy from a print seen on copy stand. 10/24/1973, unknown unknown. Nola Smith.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E1698-00, Head and shoulders portrait of Nola Smith. Copy from a print seen on copy stand. 10/24/1973, unknown unknown. Nola Smith.

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S - White House Press Office Briefings (continuation of the L-series)

• WHCA-SR-S-348
  Anne Armstrong receives Bicentennial stamps from the Ambassador of Nicaragua. (10/24/1973, Roosevelt Room)
  
  Runtime: 10:00
  
  Keywords: ceremonies
  
  Production credits: Audio feed supplied by WHCA; Recorded by __ (initials of WHCA engineer)
  
  Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.
• WHCA-SR-S-349
  Press briefing by Gerald Warren. (10/24/1973, White House Press Lobby)
  
  Runtime: 35:32:00
  
  Keywords: Press conferences, news conferences, interviews, media
  
  Production credits: Audio feed supplied by WHCA; Recorded by __ (initials of WHCA engineer)
  
  Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.
• WHCA-SR-S-350
  Press briefing by Herbert Stein. (10/24/1973, EOB Conference Room (450))
  
  Runtime: 36:00:00
  
  Keywords: Press conferences, news conferences, interviews, media
  
  Production credits: Audio feed supplied by WHCA; Recorded by __ (initials of WHCA engineer)
  
  Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.

The White House Communications Agency Videotape Collection contains “off-the-air” recordings of televised programs produced between 1968 and 1974. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

• WHCA-6620
  "Panorama" with former Assistant Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. The "Saturday Night Massacre" with former Assistant Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus
  ALL NETWORKS
  Runtime: 00:32:23
• WHCA-6628
  Weekly News Summary, Tape II.
  ALL NETWORKS
  Runtime: 1:30
  
  10. Smith/Donaldson/Clark/Landay: White House tapes. Time Code Start: 26:15. Keywords: bugging, bugs, wiretapping, wire taps, surveillance, spying, recordings, Watergate, Senate committee hearings, investigations, testimony, testify, cover-ups, scandals. Network: ABC.
  
  11. Smith/Schoumacher: Robert Bork on White House tapes. Time Code Start: 30:44. Keywords: law officials, attorneys, lawyers, bugging, bugs, wiretapping, wire taps, surveillance, spying, recordings, Watergate, Senate committee hearings, investigations, testimony, testify, cover-ups, scandals. Network: ABC.
  
  12. Smith/Kaplow: Middle East ceasefire. Time Code Start: 32:33. Keywords: Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, October War, 1973 Arab–Israeli War, Egypt, Syria, Israel, Middle East, Mideast, ceasefires. Network: ABC.
  
  13. Reasoner/Seamans: More on Middle East. Time Code Start: 34:10. Keywords: Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, October War, 1973 Arab–Israeli War, Egypt, Syria, Israel, Middle East, Mideast. Network: ABC.
  
  14. Reasoner: Interview with General Chaim Herzog. Time Code Start: 36:59. Keywords: Israeli, military, leaders, attorneys, lawyers, authors, media, interviews. Network: ABC.
  
  15. Reasoner/Farmer: Middle East war. Time Code Start: 38:50. Keywords: Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, October War, 1973 Arab–Israeli War, Egypt, Syria, Israel, Middle East, Mideast. Network: ABC.
  
  16. Smith: Commentary that release of White House tapes doesn't settle American crisis, Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox was on to something more, replacement Henry Petersen will demand more, President Nixon still in trouble. Time Code Start: 40:41. Keywords: bugging, bugs, wiretapping, wire taps, surveillance, spying, investigations, recordings, releases, Watergate, Senate committee hearings, investigations, testimony, testify, cover-ups, break-in, burglary, theft, plumbers, scandals, impeachment. Network: ABC.
  
  17. Chancellor/Duke/Stern: New special prosecutor. Time Code Start: 42:16. Keywords: law officials, attorneys, lawyers, appointments, Watergate, Senate committee hearings, investigations, testimony, testify, cover-ups, break-in, burglary, theft, plumbers, scandals. Network: NBC.
  
  18. Chancellor/Brokaw: Presidential news conference. Time Code Start: 47:09. Keywords: Presidents, media, press conferences, news conferences, interviews. Network: NBC.
  
  19. Chancellor/Jones: Senator Dole and students for impeachment. Time Code Start: 49:00. Keywords: Presidents, Watergate, Senate committee hearings, investigations, impeachment, Senators, colleges, universities, student protests. Network: NBC.
  
  20. Chancellor: AFL-CIO President George Meany against President Nixon. Time Code Start: 51:35. Keywords: labor, unions, leaders, American Federation of Labor, Congress of Industrial Organizations. Network: NBC.
  
  21. Chancellor/Burrington/Goralski: Middle East War. Time Code Start: 52:20. Keywords: Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, October War, 1973 Arab–Israeli War, Egypt, Syria, Israel, Middle East, Mideast. Network: NBC.
  
  22. Chancellor/Davis: War in Syria; veto of war power. Time Code Start: 57:35. Keywords: Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, October War, 1973 Arab–Israeli War, Egypt, Syria, Israel, Middle East, Mideast, Presidents, bills, laws, vetoes. Network: NBC.
  
  23. Cronkite/Rather/Morton: Presidential press conference; further investigating of Watergate affairs. Time Code Start: 59:33. Keywords: Watergate, Senate committee hearings, investigations, testimony, testify, cover-ups, Presidents, Vice Presidents, speeches, statements, press conferences, news conferences, interviews, news. Network: CBS.
  
  24. Cronkite: Archibald Cox interview. Time Code Start: 62:20. Keywords: law officials, firings, courts, trials, investigations, prosecutions, bugging, bugs, wiretapping, wire taps, surveillance, spying, Watergate, hearings, burglary, impeachment, resignations, recordings. Network: CBS.
  
  25. Cronkite: Robert Bork (acting Attorney General). Time Code Start: 73:19. Keywords: attorneys, law officials, cabinet, advisors, interim. Network: CBS.
  
  26. Cronkite/Schieffer/Laurence: Middle East reports. Time Code Start: 73:52. Keywords: Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, October War, 1973 Arab–Israeli War, Egypt, Syria, Israel, Middle East, Mideast. Network: CBS.
  
  27. Cronkite: Secretary of State Kissinger will travel to Asia. Time Code Start: 77:20. Keywords: cabinet, advisors, travel, trips, Asian. Network: CBS.
  
  28. Cronkite/Severaid: Commentary on the problems engulfing President Nixon. Time Code Start: 78:00. Keywords: Watergate, Senate Committee hearings, investigations, testimony, testify, cover-ups, break-in, burglary, theft, plumbers, scandals, impeachment, resignations. Network: CBS.

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