40–24

Conversation No. 40-24

Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 9:19 am - 9:25 am

Location: White House Telephone


The President talked with Bryce Harlow.


[See also Conversation No. 937-5A]

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 40-24 (cont’d)


President’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Harlow’s joining of the White House staff

President’s telephone call to Howard J. Morgan
-Morgan described
-Physical attributes

-Harlow’s advice to the President regarding Morgan

-Harlow’s forthcoming role on White House staff


Harlow
-Conversation with Haig
-Role on White House staff
-Melvin R. Laird’s role

-Domestic policy

-Congressional relations

-Advisor to President

-Politics

-Haig’s role

-George H. W. Bush

-Spiro T. Agnew

-Nelson A. Rockefeller, Ronald W. Reagan

-Haig and Laird’s roles

-Relationship with President

-Announcement

-Date

-Schedule

-Haig

-Beginning date


Watergate
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s statement concerning Brezhnev’s forthcoming visit
-Partisan reaction
-President’s response
-Congress
-President’s handling

-Press relations

-Compared to Alger Hiss case and Five Percenters

-Impeachment of Harry S. Truman

-1968 campaign

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 40-24 (cont’d)

-Lyndon B. Johnson’s bombing halt
-President’s reaction

The President conferred with Haig.

[Begin conferral]

Harlow
-Role on White House staff

-Haig’s role

-President’s telephone call

-Beginning date

-Vacation

[End conferral]

Harlow

-Visits to Key Biscayne and Camp David with Haig, Laird, and President