Conversation: 406-006
Prev: 406-005 Next: 406-007Start Date: 30-Jan-1973 12:35 PM
End Date: 30-Jan-1973 12:50 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On January 30, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:35 pm to 12:50 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 406-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 406-6
Date: January 30, 1973
Time: 12:35 pm and 12:50 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
President's dictation machine
-Location
-Tape
-Operation
-Microphone
Briefing book
An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm.
Briefing book [?]
The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 12:50 pm.
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Possible meeting with Haldeman
-Military planning
-Hardline stance
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Timing
-Herman Kahn
Press relations
-Haig
-Herbert G. Klein
-Henry A. Kissinger’s trip to Vietnam
-Press pool
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 406-6 (cont’d)
-Wire services
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Prisoners of War [POWs] interviews
-Hospital
-Possible article
-Congress
-Peace efforts by President
-President’s opponents
-Possible author
-William Randolph Hearst, Jr.
-Buchanan
-Distribution
-Favorable editorial
-Buchanan
-Lyndon (“Mort”) Allin
-London Daily Telegraph
-Distribution
-1973 Inauguration
-1972 election
-Victory
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Campaign statements
-President’s opponents
-Possible article on response to Vietnam settlement
-Victor Lasky
-Time
-President's meeting with Jerrold L. Schecter
-Value
-Editors
-Philosophy
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Decision by President
-Gridiron Club dinners
-Schecter
-President's schedule
-Amount of contact with President
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 406-6 (cont’d)
Delivery
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:50 pm.
Press relations
-Amount of contact with President
-Value
-Social events
-Press conferences
-Moynihan's plan
-President’s opponents
-Democratic partisans
-John B. Connally
-President’s supporters
-Cynicism
-Optimism
Connally
-President’s schedule
-Plans
-Assistance to President [?]
-Charles W. Colson
-Pressure
-Political future
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s death
President's schedule
-Briefing book
Haldeman left at 12:50 pm.