Conversation: 167-007
Prev:  167-006 Next: 167-008Start 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
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 -5- 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 -6- 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