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934–5
- President Richard M. Nixon
- Alexander M. Haig
- UNKNOWN
June 7, 1973
Conversation No. 934-5
Date: June 7, 1973
Time: 9:20 am - 10:04 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
National economy
-Haig’s meeting with George P. Shultz
-Economic package
-Herbert Stein
-Options
-Additions
-Freeze
-Possible freeze
-Haig’s support
-Effects
-John B. Connally
-Problems
-Structure
-Management System
-John T. Dunlop
-President’s recommendation
-Haig’s forthcoming conversations
-Connally
-Melvin R. Laird
-Assistance to Haig
-Duties for Laird
-Knowledge of labor, management
-Economic package
-Preparation
-4-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-Shultz
-Possible freeze
-Shultz
-Recommendation
-Implementation
-Haig’s support
-Congress
-“Big play”
-Leadership
-Controversy
-Congressional spending
-Phase IV
-Personnel needed
-Preparation for freeze
Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s conversation with Haig, June 7, 1973
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-President’s meeting with Tran Kim Phoung
-Withdrawal of US Forces
-Bug out
-Thieu’s style of negotiation
-[Communique]
-Signature
-US
-North Vietnam
-Kissinger
-Possibility of failure
-South Vietnam’s public opinion
-January 1973 agreement
-Language of draft
-Hanoi
-Cambodia
-President’s letter
-Ambassador’s demarche
-Effectiveness
-Thieu’s response
-5-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-US position
-Difficulty
-Thieu’s perceptions
-South Vietnam’s viability
-Congress
-Hugh Scott
-Views on Cambodia
-Air Force pilots’ testimony
-Constitutionality of actions
-Air Force Academy
-Refusal to fly
-December 1972
Watergate
-Laird’s joining White House staff
-Comment by [Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-President’s innocence
National economy
-Shultz and Stein
-Confidence
-Value of the dollar
-Gold prices
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Documents in New York Times, June 7, 1973
-White House response
-Haig’s instructions to Leonard Garment and J. Fred
Buzhardt, Jr.
-President’s papers
-Access
President’s schedule
-Council of Americas meeting
-William P. Rogers
-Latin America
-6-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Motives
Richardson
-Ambitions
-Haig’s assessment
-Administration’s concern
-William Ruckelshaus
-Role as deputy
-Loyalty
-Court system reform
-Joseph T. Sneed
-Future role in administration
-Court appointment [?]
-Similarity to Ruckelshaus
Watergate
-New York Times story, June 7, 1973
-Huston plan
-May 22 statements
-Approval
-White House response
-Implementation
-J. Edgar Hoover’s objections
-Wiretaps
-Press coverage of Robert F. Kennedy bugging
-New York Times story, June 7, 1973
-Effect
-Weathermen
-Huston plan
-Attacks on President
-Ronald L. Ziegler
Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger
-Agreement
-South Vietnam
-7-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-Schedule
-South Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-South Vietnam’s position
-President’s irritation
-Opportunity
-Thieu
-Phoung’s meeting with Haig
-US relations with People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet
Union
Watergate
-President’s papers
-Buzhardt
-Charles A. Wright
-Garment
-Haig’s conversation with Buzhardt, June 6, 1973
-Possible subpoena
-Bryce N. Harlow’s view
-Sequence of events
-George H. W. Bush
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson
-Purpose
-Possible access
-Garment, Buzhardt, Wright
-Haig
-Ownership
-Henry Petersen
-Diaries
-Meetings
-Secret Service
-White House response
-President’s activities
-George Meany
-Leadership
-8-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-Spending bills
-Minimum wage
-President’s papers
-Effect
-Economy
-Energy
-International affairs
-Effect
-Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
-Laird’s joining staff
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., Jeb Stewart Magruder, Ehrlichman, Dwight L. Chapin,
Maurice H. Stans, Haldeman, John N. Mitchell
-Possible allegations
-Mitchell
-Possible testimony
-Effects
-Dean
-Colson
-Call from President
-Howard K. Smith television interview
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s opinion
-US attorneys
-Dean
-Prosecutors’ opinion
-Immunity
-Dean
-Possible immunity
-Archibald Cox
-Effect
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s possible testimony
-Possible evidence against President
-Documents
-Telephone tapes
-Conversations with President, Haldeman
-Dates
-E. Howard Hunt
-William O. Bittman
-9-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-National security considerations
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-Investigations
-Hunt
-National security considerations
-Dean
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Cox
-Actions
-Ervin, Samuel Dash
-Possible removal [?]
-Buzhardt
-Documents for Ervin Committee
-Dean
-Pace
-Haldeman’s memcons
-Time span
-President’s conversations
-Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Content
-Haldeman
-Content
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Colson
-Press stories about roles
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Funds
-Writing history of President’s first term for
-Reader’s Digest
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Haldeman’s classmate on west coast
-White House staff
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson
-Story on current role
-President’s conversations with Colson concerning labor matters
-Call to Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Melvin R. Laird’s appointment
-10-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-Haig’s call to Haldeman
-Laird’s conversation with Haig
-Content
President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Length
-Gerald R. Ford, Scott
-Agenda
-Economy
-Shultz
Shultz’s schedule
-Camp David
-Mrs. Shultz, staff
National economy
-Preparation of economic package
-Schedule of announcement
-Crisis mode
-Rollback
-Possible 60-day freeze
-Implementation
-Congress
-Cost of Living Council
-Administration’s cooperation
-Business
-Industry
-Labor
-Announcement
-Possible television [TV] appearance
-A draft
-Difficulty
-Speech writers
-Lee W. Huebner
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-Agenda
-Scott, Ford, Laird, Ziegler, Cabinet members
-Cabinet’s demeanor
President’s schedule
-Clarence M. Kelley’s appointment
-Photograph
-Thompson [?]
-Questions
-Cabinet meeting
An unknown man met with the President at 10:04 am.
Laird
The President and Haig left at 10:04 am.
Date: June 7, 1973
Time: 9:20 am - 10:04 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
National economy
-Haig’s meeting with George P. Shultz
-Economic package
-Herbert Stein
-Options
-Additions
-Freeze
-Possible freeze
-Haig’s support
-Effects
-John B. Connally
-Problems
-Structure
-Management System
-John T. Dunlop
-President’s recommendation
-Haig’s forthcoming conversations
-Connally
-Melvin R. Laird
-Assistance to Haig
-Duties for Laird
-Knowledge of labor, management
-Economic package
-Preparation
-4-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-Shultz
-Possible freeze
-Shultz
-Recommendation
-Implementation
-Haig’s support
-Congress
-“Big play”
-Leadership
-Controversy
-Congressional spending
-Phase IV
-Personnel needed
-Preparation for freeze
Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s conversation with Haig, June 7, 1973
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-President’s meeting with Tran Kim Phoung
-Withdrawal of US Forces
-Bug out
-Thieu’s style of negotiation
-[Communique]
-Signature
-US
-North Vietnam
-Kissinger
-Possibility of failure
-South Vietnam’s public opinion
-January 1973 agreement
-Language of draft
-Hanoi
-Cambodia
-President’s letter
-Ambassador’s demarche
-Effectiveness
-Thieu’s response
-5-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-US position
-Difficulty
-Thieu’s perceptions
-South Vietnam’s viability
-Congress
-Hugh Scott
-Views on Cambodia
-Air Force pilots’ testimony
-Constitutionality of actions
-Air Force Academy
-Refusal to fly
-December 1972
Watergate
-Laird’s joining White House staff
-Comment by [Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-President’s innocence
National economy
-Shultz and Stein
-Confidence
-Value of the dollar
-Gold prices
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Documents in New York Times, June 7, 1973
-White House response
-Haig’s instructions to Leonard Garment and J. Fred
Buzhardt, Jr.
-President’s papers
-Access
President’s schedule
-Council of Americas meeting
-William P. Rogers
-Latin America
-6-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Motives
Richardson
-Ambitions
-Haig’s assessment
-Administration’s concern
-William Ruckelshaus
-Role as deputy
-Loyalty
-Court system reform
-Joseph T. Sneed
-Future role in administration
-Court appointment [?]
-Similarity to Ruckelshaus
Watergate
-New York Times story, June 7, 1973
-Huston plan
-May 22 statements
-Approval
-White House response
-Implementation
-J. Edgar Hoover’s objections
-Wiretaps
-Press coverage of Robert F. Kennedy bugging
-New York Times story, June 7, 1973
-Effect
-Weathermen
-Huston plan
-Attacks on President
-Ronald L. Ziegler
Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger
-Agreement
-South Vietnam
-7-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-Schedule
-South Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-South Vietnam’s position
-President’s irritation
-Opportunity
-Thieu
-Phoung’s meeting with Haig
-US relations with People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet
Union
Watergate
-President’s papers
-Buzhardt
-Charles A. Wright
-Garment
-Haig’s conversation with Buzhardt, June 6, 1973
-Possible subpoena
-Bryce N. Harlow’s view
-Sequence of events
-George H. W. Bush
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson
-Purpose
-Possible access
-Garment, Buzhardt, Wright
-Haig
-Ownership
-Henry Petersen
-Diaries
-Meetings
-Secret Service
-White House response
-President’s activities
-George Meany
-Leadership
-8-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-Spending bills
-Minimum wage
-President’s papers
-Effect
-Economy
-Energy
-International affairs
-Effect
-Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
-Laird’s joining staff
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., Jeb Stewart Magruder, Ehrlichman, Dwight L. Chapin,
Maurice H. Stans, Haldeman, John N. Mitchell
-Possible allegations
-Mitchell
-Possible testimony
-Effects
-Dean
-Colson
-Call from President
-Howard K. Smith television interview
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s opinion
-US attorneys
-Dean
-Prosecutors’ opinion
-Immunity
-Dean
-Possible immunity
-Archibald Cox
-Effect
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s possible testimony
-Possible evidence against President
-Documents
-Telephone tapes
-Conversations with President, Haldeman
-Dates
-E. Howard Hunt
-William O. Bittman
-9-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-National security considerations
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-Investigations
-Hunt
-National security considerations
-Dean
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Cox
-Actions
-Ervin, Samuel Dash
-Possible removal [?]
-Buzhardt
-Documents for Ervin Committee
-Dean
-Pace
-Haldeman’s memcons
-Time span
-President’s conversations
-Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Content
-Haldeman
-Content
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Colson
-Press stories about roles
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Funds
-Writing history of President’s first term for
-Reader’s Digest
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Haldeman’s classmate on west coast
-White House staff
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson
-Story on current role
-President’s conversations with Colson concerning labor matters
-Call to Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Melvin R. Laird’s appointment
-10-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-Haig’s call to Haldeman
-Laird’s conversation with Haig
-Content
President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Length
-Gerald R. Ford, Scott
-Agenda
-Economy
-Shultz
Shultz’s schedule
-Camp David
-Mrs. Shultz, staff
National economy
-Preparation of economic package
-Schedule of announcement
-Crisis mode
-Rollback
-Possible 60-day freeze
-Implementation
-Congress
-Cost of Living Council
-Administration’s cooperation
-Business
-Industry
-Labor
-Announcement
-Possible television [TV] appearance
-A draft
-Difficulty
-Speech writers
-Lee W. Huebner
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)
-Agenda
-Scott, Ford, Laird, Ziegler, Cabinet members
-Cabinet’s demeanor
President’s schedule
-Clarence M. Kelley’s appointment
-Photograph
-Thompson [?]
-Questions
-Cabinet meeting
An unknown man met with the President at 10:04 am.
Laird
The President and Haig left at 10:04 am.