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Start Date: 20-May-1973 10:47 AM

End Date: 20-May-1973 10:56 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haig, Alexander M., Jr.

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

167-007.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:47 am to 10:56 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 167-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 167-7

Date: May 20, 1973
Time: 10:47 am - 10:56 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     President’s schedule     

           -Ronald L. Ziegler       

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             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. March-2011)

                                                       Conversation No. 167-7 (cont’d)


Haig’s schedule
     -John B. Connally
           -Jamaica
     -Robert H. Finch

President’s trip to Norfolk, Virginia, May 19
      -Television [TV] coverage

Watergate
     -News reports
     -Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]
           -W[illiam] Stuart Symington       

           -John W. Dean, III       

           -Apparent Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] cover-up 


National economy
     -Connally’s possible meeting with George P. Shultz and Roy L. Ash
     -Stock market
     -Du Pont Corportion and H. Ross Perot
     -Phase III
            -Watergate impact        

                  -[Wage and price freeze]       

                  -”Theoretical purity’      

     -Connally’s view         

     -Economists’ views           

     -Political motives        

            -Compared with economic interests        

     -President’s meeting with Shultz 

     -Connally’s view         

            -Wage and price freeze        

                  -Phase I move        

                  -Reassurance for country       

                        -Political motives
                                -Compared to economic interests
                        -Confidence problem
                        -Wall Street
     -President’s view        

            -Shultz      

            -Ash      

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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. March-2011)

                                                               Conversation No. 167-7 (cont’d)


     Vietnam settlement       

          -Henry A. Kissinger         

          -Communiqué           

                -Cease-fire agreement    

                -North Vietnam

                -South Vietnam

                -Cambodia         

          -Timing of release        

                -Prisoners of War [POWs]         


     Watergate      

          -White House response        

               -Connally       

                      -”Apocalyptic terms”           

          -Haig’s conversation with Perot 

               -Investment in Du Pont       


     Watergate      

          -White House response        

               -Forthcoming White Paper         

                      -Raymond K. Price, Jr.      

                      -Requirements        

          -Walters’s memcons        

               -Possible release      

                      -John C. Stennis’s assurances to J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
               -Symington
               -President’s motives