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Conversation: 168-036

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Start Date: 3-Jun-1973 3:12 PM

End Date: 3-Jun-1973 3:27 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

168-036.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 3, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone at Camp David from 3:12 pm to 3:27 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 168-036 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 168-36

Date: June 3, 1973
Time: 3:12 pm - 3:27 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     Haig’s schedule        

          -Tennis       


     President’s schedule      

           -Weather       

           - Executive Office Building [EOB]

     White House staff organization
          -Melvin R. Laird       

               -Announcement           

               -Haig’s telephone call, June 3, 1973 

               -Attitude       

                      -Helicopter ride     

               -Announcement           


     Watergate      

          -White House response        

          -Ronald L. Ziegler and Counsel’s staff 

          -Attacks on President      

                -Cycles      

          -Popular opinion      

          -White House response        

                -John W. Dean, III’s statement concerning meetings with President
                -President’s knowledge
                -Dean’s contacts with President
                      -Number, dates
                                       -42-

             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. March-2011)

                                                          Conversation No. 168-36 (cont’d)

                -Money for defendants       

          -Surrogates       

                -Cabinet
          -Washington Post and New York Times stories concerning Dean’s meetings
          -President’s knowledge
     -Dean
          -Possible evidence against President    

                -Possible tapes by Dean       

                -Documents        

                -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman 


Personal management
     -Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
           -Ralph Saul        

                  -New York Stock Exchange [NYSE] [?] 

                  -Federal Reserve Bank of Boston [?] 

                  -Reputation      

     -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] 

           -Director      

                  -Announcement of appointment         

           -Peter G. Peterson       

           -Haig      

           -Laird       


National economy
     -Economic package          

           -Geroge P. Shultz’s memorandum

           -Haig’s telephone call to William E. Simon 

                 -Edits      

     -President’s meeting          

     -[Wage price] freeze          

           -Recommendations              

                 -Politicians        

                 -Economists           

                 -Haig       

                        -“Status quo”      

     -President’s speech       

           -Florida [Technical University]      

                 -Setting      

     -Health of economy          

                                         -43-

             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. March-2011)

                                                        Conversation No. 168-36 (cont’d)

     -President’s radio speech       

     -Stock Market        

           -SEC appointee        

                 -Results      


Watergate
     -Dean’s statements concerning meetings with President
     -White House response
     -Ziegler
     -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. and Leonard Garment’s views
     -Timing
     -Statements by Haldeman and Ehrlichman
     -Charles W. Colson’s possible statement

Weather

Haig’s schedule
     -Tennis

Watergate
     -Dean’s statements concerning meetings with President
           -Timing
     -White House response
           -President’s knowledge        

     -Charles H. Percy’s statements 

     -Ervin Committee          

     -White House response         

     -Allegations       

           -Cycles
     -White House response         

           -President’s forthcoming activities      

           -President’s possible resignation or impeachment 

                 -Ehrlichman, Haldeman resignations        

     -Henry A. Kissinger’s view 

     -Dean’s statement concerning meetings with President 

           -Haig’s conversation with Kissinger, June 3, 1973 

     -Popular opinion        

           -Haig’s conversation with Herbert G. Klein, June 2, 1973 

                 -National economy         

     -White House response         

                                               -44-


                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                         Tape Subject Log 

                                         (rev. March-2011)

                                                              Conversation No. 168-36 (cont’d)

                 -Timing

     National economy      

          -Forthcoming meeting, June 4, 1973 

                -John B. Connally