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939–2
- President Richard M. Nixon
- Ronald L. Ziegler
- Alexander M. Haig
- William E. Timmons
- Nellie L. Yates
June 13, 1973
Conversation No. 939-2
Date: June 13, 1973
Time: 9:22 am - 10:10 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler. Discontinuities appear in the original recording.
Ronald L. Ziegler’s meeting
-3-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
Press relations
-Vietnam negotiations
-Joint communique
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-National economy
-President’s address
-President’s efforts
-Vietnam negotiations
-Messages
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-National economy
-Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Watergate
-National economy
-Possible freeze
-Prices
-Vietnam negotiations
-Saigon’s reaction
-Forthcoming Soviet Union summit
-Cambodia
-Joseph W. Alsop’s column, June 13, 1973
-Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit, Watergate
-Agreement
-Trade
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Wire services
Phil Donahue
-Interview with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-White House response
-Correspondents
-Insult
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Maurice H. Stans
-4-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
-John W. Dean, III
-Immunity
-Archibald Cox’s possible appeal
-Judge John J. Sirica’s role
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Possible effects
-Transactional immunity
-Strategy
-Views of Haig and J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-John D. Ehrlichman
-President
-Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-White House response
-Timing
-Buzhardt
-William O. Bittman
-White House response
-Raymond K. Price
-Actions of Washington Post and New York Times
-Immunity
-White House response
-Buzhardt, Charles A. Wright, Leonard Garment
-Ehrlichman’s letter to President
-Garment
-Leaks to press
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Garment
-Garment
Haig entered at 9:34 am.
Watergate
-Garment
-Conversations with Ziegler and Haig
-Defense of President with press
-Ehrlichman letter
-5-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
-Contacts with Bob Woodward and Seymour M. Hirsh
-Haig’s opinion
Congressional relations
-Vietnam negotiations
-Communique
-William E. Timmons’s activities
-Staff meeting
-Haig
-Chowder and Marching Society
-Society of Statesmen [SOS]
-Cambodia
-Timmons’s schedule
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefings
-Bi-partisan Congressional leaders meeting
-Mike J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford, Ted Stevens
-President’s role
-Guest list
-Timmons [?]
-Importance
-Kissinger [?]
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Chowder and Marching Society
-Watergate
-Watergate
-Bella Abzug’s speech, June 12, 1973
-Haig’s meeting with Chowder and Marching Society
-Watergate
-Laird
-National economy
-President’s activities
Timmons entered at 9:38 am.
Congressional relations
-Vietnam negotiations
-6-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
-Wire services
-Congressional relations
-Mansfield, Scott
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Timmons’s telephone calls
-Briefing schedule
-President’s role
-Kissinger
-Guest list
-Congress compared with White House
-President’s economic controls speech
-Scott and Ford’s views
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefings
-Scott, Mansfield, Ford, Carl Albert
-Press
-Timing
-President’s approval
-Communique
-President’s briefing on Soviet Union summit, June 13,
1973
-Kissinger’s role
-Wilbur Mill, Wright Patman, William Proxmire
Timmons left at 9:41 am.
Personal appointments
-William Scranton
-Conversation with Haig
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Effect of possible appointment
-Timing of announcements
-Press coverage
-Scranton
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Energy
-Harlow
-Scranton
-7-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
-President’s trip to Florida
-Brezhnev
-San Clemente
-President’s conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Andrei Gromyko
-Photo opportunity
-“Spirit of Casa Pacifica”
-Spirit of Camp David, Casa Pacifica, Glassboro, and San
Clemente
Watergate
-Dean
-President’s conversation with Ronald Ziegler
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee Testimony
-Press
-Treatment of Whittaker Chambers
-Alger Hiss case
-Treatment of Dean
-Joseph W. Alsop’s column
-Need for White House response
-Haig’s opinion
-Buzhardt
-Spiro Agnew’s speech
-Columns
-Garment’s contacts
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Dean
-Immunity
-White House response
-Peter Lisagor’s possible column
-Ziegler’s efforts
-Discreditation
-Importance of timing
-Henry (“Scoop”) Jackson’s statement concerning Brezhnev’s visit
-Congressional response
-Dean
-Immunity
-8-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Prosecutors’ evidence-gathering
-Buzhardt
-Expectations
-Cross-examination
-Fred D. Thompson
-Buzhardt
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Edward J. Gurney
-Daniel K. Inouye [?]
-Herman E. Talmadge
-Gurney
-Speeches in Florida
-News coverage
-New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press [AP]
-Support for President
-President’s role
-Need for speeches by supporters
-Content
-Dean
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Agnew
-Congressmen
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-Statement concerning President’s tenure
Press relations
-Timing of announcements
-Kissinger
-Harlow
-Energy statement
-Scranton’s appointment
-Delay
-Scranton
-Florida
-President’s forthcoming speech on the economy
-9-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
National economy
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Timing
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Timmons
-President’s schedule
-Cabinet, Bi-partisan Congressional leaders
-George P. Shultz
Ziegler left at 9:59 am.
National economy
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Preparation
-President’s appearance
Chowder and Marching Society
-Support for President
-Meeting, June 13, 1973
-SOS
-Attendees
-Haig’s talk
-White House relations with Congress
-White House relations with Cabinet
-President’s activities
-Economy, energy, Southeast Asia
-Cambodia
-Stability
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Significance
Nellie L. Yates entered at an unknown time after 9:59 am.
Telegram to Kissinger
-Congratulations
-Scowcroft
-10-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
Yates left at an unknown time before 10:10 am.
Chowder and Marching Society
-Haig’s previous visits
-Complaints by attendees
-Attitude, June 13, 1973
-Cambodia vote
-Peter H. Dominick
Dominick
-Qualities
-Timmons
-Treatment by Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP]
*****************************************************************
[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Dominick
-Treatment by Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP]
-Reelection
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Colorado
-Harlow
-”Georgetown set”
-Possible conversation with Harlow
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
*****************************************************************
Chowder and Marching Society
-Timmons
-George H. W. Bush
Watergate
-Dean
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-White House response
-President’s activities
-Energy, Economy, White House staff, Southeast Asia, Brezhnev
-Evidence
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Witness schedule
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean
-Agnew’s speeches
-Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.’s possible speech
-Possible speeches by Congressmen
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Inouye’s views
-Ziegler
-Possible speech or press story
-Content
Haig’s schedule
Scranton
-Florida
Haig left at 10:10 am.
Date: June 13, 1973
Time: 9:22 am - 10:10 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler. Discontinuities appear in the original recording.
Ronald L. Ziegler’s meeting
-3-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
Press relations
-Vietnam negotiations
-Joint communique
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-National economy
-President’s address
-President’s efforts
-Vietnam negotiations
-Messages
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-National economy
-Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Watergate
-National economy
-Possible freeze
-Prices
-Vietnam negotiations
-Saigon’s reaction
-Forthcoming Soviet Union summit
-Cambodia
-Joseph W. Alsop’s column, June 13, 1973
-Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit, Watergate
-Agreement
-Trade
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Wire services
Phil Donahue
-Interview with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-White House response
-Correspondents
-Insult
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Maurice H. Stans
-4-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
-John W. Dean, III
-Immunity
-Archibald Cox’s possible appeal
-Judge John J. Sirica’s role
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Possible effects
-Transactional immunity
-Strategy
-Views of Haig and J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-John D. Ehrlichman
-President
-Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-White House response
-Timing
-Buzhardt
-William O. Bittman
-White House response
-Raymond K. Price
-Actions of Washington Post and New York Times
-Immunity
-White House response
-Buzhardt, Charles A. Wright, Leonard Garment
-Ehrlichman’s letter to President
-Garment
-Leaks to press
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Garment
-Garment
Haig entered at 9:34 am.
Watergate
-Garment
-Conversations with Ziegler and Haig
-Defense of President with press
-Ehrlichman letter
-5-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
-Contacts with Bob Woodward and Seymour M. Hirsh
-Haig’s opinion
Congressional relations
-Vietnam negotiations
-Communique
-William E. Timmons’s activities
-Staff meeting
-Haig
-Chowder and Marching Society
-Society of Statesmen [SOS]
-Cambodia
-Timmons’s schedule
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefings
-Bi-partisan Congressional leaders meeting
-Mike J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford, Ted Stevens
-President’s role
-Guest list
-Timmons [?]
-Importance
-Kissinger [?]
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Chowder and Marching Society
-Watergate
-Watergate
-Bella Abzug’s speech, June 12, 1973
-Haig’s meeting with Chowder and Marching Society
-Watergate
-Laird
-National economy
-President’s activities
Timmons entered at 9:38 am.
Congressional relations
-Vietnam negotiations
-6-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
-Wire services
-Congressional relations
-Mansfield, Scott
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Timmons’s telephone calls
-Briefing schedule
-President’s role
-Kissinger
-Guest list
-Congress compared with White House
-President’s economic controls speech
-Scott and Ford’s views
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefings
-Scott, Mansfield, Ford, Carl Albert
-Press
-Timing
-President’s approval
-Communique
-President’s briefing on Soviet Union summit, June 13,
1973
-Kissinger’s role
-Wilbur Mill, Wright Patman, William Proxmire
Timmons left at 9:41 am.
Personal appointments
-William Scranton
-Conversation with Haig
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Effect of possible appointment
-Timing of announcements
-Press coverage
-Scranton
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Energy
-Harlow
-Scranton
-7-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
-President’s trip to Florida
-Brezhnev
-San Clemente
-President’s conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Andrei Gromyko
-Photo opportunity
-“Spirit of Casa Pacifica”
-Spirit of Camp David, Casa Pacifica, Glassboro, and San
Clemente
Watergate
-Dean
-President’s conversation with Ronald Ziegler
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee Testimony
-Press
-Treatment of Whittaker Chambers
-Alger Hiss case
-Treatment of Dean
-Joseph W. Alsop’s column
-Need for White House response
-Haig’s opinion
-Buzhardt
-Spiro Agnew’s speech
-Columns
-Garment’s contacts
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Dean
-Immunity
-White House response
-Peter Lisagor’s possible column
-Ziegler’s efforts
-Discreditation
-Importance of timing
-Henry (“Scoop”) Jackson’s statement concerning Brezhnev’s visit
-Congressional response
-Dean
-Immunity
-8-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Prosecutors’ evidence-gathering
-Buzhardt
-Expectations
-Cross-examination
-Fred D. Thompson
-Buzhardt
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Edward J. Gurney
-Daniel K. Inouye [?]
-Herman E. Talmadge
-Gurney
-Speeches in Florida
-News coverage
-New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press [AP]
-Support for President
-President’s role
-Need for speeches by supporters
-Content
-Dean
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Agnew
-Congressmen
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-Statement concerning President’s tenure
Press relations
-Timing of announcements
-Kissinger
-Harlow
-Energy statement
-Scranton’s appointment
-Delay
-Scranton
-Florida
-President’s forthcoming speech on the economy
-9-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
National economy
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Timing
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Timmons
-President’s schedule
-Cabinet, Bi-partisan Congressional leaders
-George P. Shultz
Ziegler left at 9:59 am.
National economy
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Preparation
-President’s appearance
Chowder and Marching Society
-Support for President
-Meeting, June 13, 1973
-SOS
-Attendees
-Haig’s talk
-White House relations with Congress
-White House relations with Cabinet
-President’s activities
-Economy, energy, Southeast Asia
-Cambodia
-Stability
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Significance
Nellie L. Yates entered at an unknown time after 9:59 am.
Telegram to Kissinger
-Congratulations
-Scowcroft
-10-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
Yates left at an unknown time before 10:10 am.
Chowder and Marching Society
-Haig’s previous visits
-Complaints by attendees
-Attitude, June 13, 1973
-Cambodia vote
-Peter H. Dominick
Dominick
-Qualities
-Timmons
-Treatment by Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP]
*****************************************************************
[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Dominick
-Treatment by Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP]
-Reelection
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Colorado
-Harlow
-”Georgetown set”
-Possible conversation with Harlow
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
*****************************************************************
Chowder and Marching Society
-Timmons
-George H. W. Bush
Watergate
-Dean
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 939-2 (cont’d)
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-White House response
-President’s activities
-Energy, Economy, White House staff, Southeast Asia, Brezhnev
-Evidence
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Witness schedule
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean
-Agnew’s speeches
-Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.’s possible speech
-Possible speeches by Congressmen
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Inouye’s views
-Ziegler
-Possible speech or press story
-Content
Haig’s schedule
Scranton
-Florida
Haig left at 10:10 am.