Conversation: 929-010
Prev: 929-009 Next: 929-011Start Date: 29-May-1973 12:15 PM
End Date: 29-May-1973 12:31 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 29, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:15 pm and 12:31 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 929-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 929-10
Date: May 29, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:15 pm and 12:31 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-President’s previous meeting with bipartisan Congressional leaders
-White House response
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-J. William Fulbright’s reaction
White House staff organization
-President’s meeting with William P. Rogers
-Spirit
-Statements
-Continuance in office
-Effect of Watergate issue
-Conversation with Haig
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Effectiveness
-John B. Connally
-Haig’s conversation with Connally, May 29
-Economics
-Suggestions
-Energy czar
-Haig’s view
-Interlocking issues
-Czar
-Staff
-Knowledge
-John J. McCloy’s role
-Staff
-Peter M. Flanigan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-10 (cont’d)
-Former presidents of Shell and Texaco
-Knowledge of industry
-Age
-Ego
-McCloy
-Aken’s [sp?] [First name unknown] role
-Texaco
-Shell
-Flanigan
-Foreign Service officer
-Roy L. Ash
-Role on White House staff
-Personality
-Relations with Congress and bureaucracy
-Mistrust
Bureaucracy
-Connally’s views
-Problem for administration
-Cabinet reorganization
-President’s previous meeting with bipartisan Congressional leaders
-Reaction
-Republicans
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
White House staff organization
-Domestic side
-Inertia
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Bryce N. Harlow’s role
-George H. W. Bush
-Congress
-Benefit to Haig
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]’s role
-Ash
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-10 (cont’d)
-Policy
-Problem for administration
-Bureaucracy
-Unsettlement
-Fiscal responsibility
-Management practices
John B. Connally
-Role in administration
-View on cabinet
-View on White House response to Watergate
-President’s activities
-High profile public exposure
-Platform
-Labor
-Auto workers
-Farmers
-Beef industry
-West Coast
-Washington Press Corps
-Assessments
-Haig’s view
-Precision
-Public panic
-Views on stock market
-Wall Street
Stock market
-Fluctuations
-Effects
-H. Ross Perot
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:15 pm.
President’s schedule
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:25 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-10 (cont’d)
Stock market
-Wall Street
-Congress
-Washington Press Corps
-Effect on Arthur F. Burns
-Jewish community
-Confidence
-Cambodia
-Buying
-Polling
-Shultz’s view
-Panic
-Caution
Watergate
-Haig’s conversation with Connally
-White Paper
-Cabinet
-Republican leadership
-Watergate
-White Paper
-Effect
-John W. Dean, III’s documents
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of
conversations [memcons]
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Plumbers operation
-Haig’s role on White House staff
-Announcement
White House staff reorganization
-Rogers
-Compromise
-Continuance in office
-Conflict with Kissinger
-Effect on administration
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-10 (cont’d)
-Connally
-Conversation with Haig
-Kissinger’s continuance in office
-Style
Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Rogers
President’s schedule
-Journalists
Haig left at an unknown time before 12:31 pm.