Conversation: 039-079
Prev: 039-078 Next: 039-080Start Date: 4-Jun-1973 9:39 PM
End Date: 4-Jun-1973 9:48 PM
Participants:
White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On June 4, 1973, White House operator, President Richard M. Nixon, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 9:39 pm to 9:48 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 039-079 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 39-79
Date: June 4, 1973
Time: 9:39 pm - 9:48 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The White House operator talked with the President.
Incoming telephone call
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President.
[See also Conversation No. 442-67]
Haig’s previous meeting with Melvin R. Laird
Watergate
-White House tapes
-President’s review
-John W. Dean, III
-Statement
-White House tapes
-President’s review
Haig’s previous meeting with Laird
-Attendees
-Bryce N. Harlow, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., and William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Buzhardt’s and Baroody’s earlier meeting with Laird
-John B. Connally’s visit to Haig’s office
-Timing of announcement of return to White House staff
-Laird’s forthcoming activities
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-79 (cont’d)
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Laird’s wife’s reaction
-Administration’s forthcoming activities
-Vietnam, energy, economy
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] directorship
-Haig’s interviews
White House staff
-Roles of Laird, Harlow, and Haig
-Harlow
-President’s forthcoming meeting with boss, Howard [Last name
unknown] [at Proctor and Gamble]
Haig’s previous meeting with Connally
-Laird’s role on White House staff
-Connally’s departure
-Future role with White House staff
-Energy
-Future role with administration
-President’s regard
-Attitude
Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Laird
-Connally
-Future role with administration
-Timing
Laird’s call to Henry A. Kissinger, June 3
-Kissinger
-Future on White House staff
Kissinger
-Possible non-White House activities
-President’s assessment
Connally
-President’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-79 (cont’d)
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Connally’s foreign travel
-President’s opinion contrasted with Kissinger’s opinion
-Possible effect
-Treatment by Haig
-Concern regarding Laird
-Conversation with Haig
-Laird
President’s schedule
Watergate
-White House tapes
-President’s review of conversations with Dean
-Content
-Key Biscayne
-Camp David
-Buzhardt
-Reaction to examination of Dean’s files
-Archibald Cox
-Relationship with Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
-Possible resignation
-Effect
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Henry E. Petersen