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Start Date: 20-Jun-1973 7:23 PM

End Date: 20-Jun-1973 7:30 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

169-030.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone at Camp David from 7:23 pm to 7:30 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 169-030 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 169-30

Date: June 20, 1973
Time: 7:23 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     Leonid I. Brezhnev’s visit
          -Negotiations        

                 -Duration       

                 -Middle East       

                       -Language of agreement
                 -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
                 -Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
                       -Starting date
          -Television [TV] coverage          

                 -Haig’s assessment       

                 -Security for Brezhnev’s visit     

                       -Washington, DC         

                 -Gifts for Brezhnev       


     Watergate     

          -TV coverage       

               -Melvin R. Laird       

                     -Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]


     Personnel management
          -SEC
                -Ralph Saul
                     -Telephone call to Haig
          -John A. Love
                -Timing of announcement
                     -John W. Dean, III’s forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony

     Watergate       

          -Dean          

                                            -21-


                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. August-2011)

                                                             Conversation No. 169-30 (cont’d)

                -Press coverage        

                      -Howard H. Baker, Jr.’s statement      

                            -Contempt charges       

                                  -Edward J. Gurney
                      -Hugh Scott
                      -Handling of funds
                            -Scott’s statement

     John B. Connally 

          -Network coverage         

                -Connally’s return to Texas       

                      -David Brinkley’s editorial       

          -Statement concerning White House staff role 

                -Press coverage       

                -Ronald L. Ziegler’s statement      

                      -Temporary nature of Connally’s role
          -Role on White House staff 

                -Energy and economic advising         

                -Conversation with Haig        

                      -Confirmation of role
                      -Laird
                            -Criticism of Connally

     Brezhnev’s visit     

          -TV coverage        


     Ziegler     

           -Meeting with President