934–14

Conversation No. 934-14

Date: June 7, 1973
Time: 5:55 pm - 6:04 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haig’s schedule

Watergate
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

-Diligence

-Law experience

-Congress


Energy czar
-McComb [first name unknown]

-Oil industry

-John B. Connally’s conversation with Haig

-Jack King Horton
-Southern California

-[First name unknown] Nacet [?]

-Horton

-Tenacity
-McComb

-President’s familiarity

-Oil industry background

-Horton

-Electric company background

-George P. Shultz’s view

-McComb

-Dynamism

-President’s recommendation

-[First name unknown] Nacet [?]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)

Conversation No. 934-14 (cont’d)


National economy
-Wholesale price index
-Percentage change
-Preparation of economic package

-Camp David

-President’s possible speech

-Possible 60-day freeze

-Pending legislation

-President’s recommendation

-Gasoline

-Soybeans

-Effect on Congress

-Legislation

-Veto

-Leverage over labor unions


Connally

-Travel to Camp David

-Role on White House staff

-Attendance of Cabinet, Energy Committee, and Cost of Living
Council
-Conversation with Haig
-Role as Advisor
-Position papers

-Role with law firm

-Publicity

-Unpredictability

-Meetings with President

-Oval Office, Sequoia

-Frequency

-Role on White House staff


Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger’s call to Haig
-Notification
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. September-2011)

Conversation No. 934-14 (cont’d)

-Discipline of message
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
-State Department
-Helmut Sonnenfeldt’s briefing
-Discipline of the Department

Vietnam Negotiations

-Kissinger

-Notification


Rogers’s schedule

-Central Treaty Organization [CENTO]

-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]


Watergate
-William J. Casey
-Forthcoming conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Movement of files
-John W. Dean, III
-John N. Mitchell

-Mitchell

-Effect on White House staff

-The media

-Haig’s conversation with James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-New York Times

The President and Haig left at 6:04 pm.