Conversation: 933-003
Prev: 933-002 Next: 933-004Start Date: 6-Jun-1973 9:01 AM
End Date: 6-Jun-1973 10:03 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; White House operator; Buzhardt, J. Fred, Jr.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On June 6, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., White House operator, and J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:01 am to 10:03 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 933-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 933-3
Date: June 6, 1973
Time: 9:01 - 10:03 a.m.
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Haig’s trip to West Point, June 5, 1973
Watergate
-Wiretaps
-Media coverage, June 5, 1973
-Compared to coverage of John D. Ehrlichman’s deposition
-Jeb Stuart Magruder and Gordon Strachan
-Networks' coverage of Hugh Scott statement
-Distribution
-Names
-Possible release
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2011)
Conversation No. 933-3 (cont’d)
-Dan Rather’s commentary, June 6, 1973
White House staff changes
-President’s possible announcement
-Personnel
-Risks
-Gerald L. Warren
-Melvin R. Laird
-Format
-Laird
-Photograph
-Timing
-Herbert G. Klein
-Laird
John B. Connally
-Meeting with President, June 6, 1973
-Haig’s assessment
-Conversation with Pierre Rinfret
-Meeting with President, June 6, 1973
-National economy
-Export controls on food
-Freeze
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Grain
National economy
-Controls
-Possible effects
-Philosophical change for administration
-Trade bill
-Relations with Japan, USSR
-Grain
-George Shultz-Herbert Stein plan
-Assessment by Connally
-Haig
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2011)
Conversation No. 933-3 (cont’d)
-President
-Watergate effects
-Private conversations
-Prices
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Shultz
-Job performance
Watergate
-President’s call to J. Fred Buzhardt, June 5, 1973
-President’s meeting with Buzhardt, June 5, 1973
-Samuel Dash’s possible subpoena for logs
-Dean
-Dean’s subpoena
-Leonard Garment or Buzhardt call
-Gerald L. Warren briefing
-Haig’s forthcoming call to Buzhardt
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:01 am and
9:14 am.
[Conversation No. 933-3A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 39-97]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Buzhardt
-Cabinet meeting attendance
Haig talked with Buzhardt at an unknown time between 9:01 am and 9:14 am.
[Conversation No. 933-3B]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 933-3 (cont’d)
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 39-98]
Watergate
-John W. Dean’s possible subpoena
-Information supplied by Buzhardt
-Publicity
-Garment
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Ronald Ziegler
-Dash’s possible subpoena
-Buzhardt’s conversation with Fred D. Thompson, June 5, 1973
-Dash’s call to Buzhardt, June 5, 1973
-Press coverage
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:01 am and
9:14 am.
[Conversation No. 933-3C]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 39-99]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Jews
-Garment
The President talked with Buzhardt between 9:14 am and 9:15 a.m.
[Conversation No. 933-3D]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2011)
Conversation No. 933-3 (cont’d)
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 39-100]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-White House response
-Public relations needs
-Ehrlichman’s deposition
-Press reports [White House News Summary]
-Magruder and Strachan
-White House response
-Archibald Cox, Dash
-President’s papers
-Buzhardt, Garment
-Buzhardt
-Access to President’s papers
-Ownership
-Dean’s, Ehrlichmans, Haldeman’s papers
-Haldeman
-Dean’s safe
-President’s papers
-Contents
-Possible press reports
-Magruder, Strachan
-Strachan
-Contacts with President
-President’s papers
-Subpoenas
-White House response
-Buzhardt, Charles Wright, Garment
-Meetings with Haig, President
-Haig meeting, June 5, 1973
-Wiretaps
-Press coverage
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 933-3 (cont’d)
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Names
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Buzhardt
-White House response
-John B. Connally’s views
-Success
-President’s activities
-Purpose
-Melvin R. Laird
-Bryce N. Harlow
National economy
-Package
-Readiness
-Preparations
-Speech
-Quality
-Raymond Price and other speechwriters
-President’s note to Haldeman
-President’s assessment
-Price
-David R. Gergen
-Package
-President’s confidence
-Speech
-Peoria, Illinois
-Investors
-New York
-Political climate
-Demonstrators, press
-Friendly cities [?]
-Chicago, St. Louis, Atlanta, New Orleans, Columbus, Cleveland
-Meetings in White House
-Publicity
-Thailand, Cambodia
-Stock brokers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 933-3 (cont’d)
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-President’s travels
-Economic speeches
-Chicago, radio
-Publicity
-Community meetings
-Shultz ideas
-Meetings with African Americans
-President’s assessment
-Media coverage
-President’s interest
President’s schedule
-David N. Parker
-Shultz
Cabinet’s schedule
National economy
-Stock market
-Dow Jones
-Real estate market
-Shifts
-Dollars abroad
-Inflation
-Possible freeze
-Effect
-Failure
-Advice to President
-Controls
-Philosophy
-[Unintelligible name]
-Republican Party
-Effect
-Perpetual controls
-Status quo
-Need for leadership
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2011)
Conversation No. 933-3 (cont’d)
-Effect of Watergate
-Disquiet in Washington, D.C.
-Need for active leadership
Watergate
-White House response
-Leonid I. Brezhnev visit effect
-Media reaction
-Reaction of Congress
President’s schedule
-Brezhnev’s schedule
-San Clemente
-Brezhnev’s reaction
-Gift
-Golf cart
-Brezhnev’s reaction
-Cadillac
-Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
Vietnam negotiations press coverage
-Henry A. Kissinger
Clarence Kelley
-Media coverage
-Meeting with President
-Announcement
-Time
President’s schedule
-Florida Technical University speech
-Preparation
-Economic policies
-Future of America
-Youth
Haig’s West Point speech, June 5, 1973
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 933-3 (cont’d)
-President’s accomplishments
-People’s Republic of China, Vietnam
-Support for President
Watergate
-Popular opinion
-Mail to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Ehrlichman’s deposition
-Press coverage
-Scott’s statement
- Spiro T. Agnew’s statement
-Popular opinion
- Connally’s view
-Wiretaps
-John F. Kennedy’s administration
-Release of names
-Daniel Ellsberg tap
-Names
-Buchanan
-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy years, Lyndon B. Johnson years
-Henry Brandon
-J. Edgar Hoover
National economy
-Rinfret’s view of freeze
-Haig’s agreement
-Duration of price freeze
-60 days, as opposed to 90 days
-John T. Dunlop
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Chairman
-Labor [Advisory Board]
-Possible freeze
-Duration
-Development of Phase II
-Connally
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 933-3 (cont’d)
-Contribution to debate
-Shultz
-Stein
-President’s assessment
-Need for economic advice
-Generation of ideas
-Treasury Department
-Haig’s forthcoming meeting with William E. Simon
-Simon’s possible conversation with Dunlop
-Shultz, Connally
-Severity of situation
-Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Dunlop
-President’s request for ideas
-Possible freeze
-Duration
-Labor
-Statistics
-Haig call to Simon
-President’s decision
-Possible delays
-Forthcoming decisions from advisors
President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting, June 7, 1973
-Laird
-Agenda
-Paris negotiations
-Economic package
-Preparedness
-Iceland Summit
-Reports
-Peter J. Brennan
-Therapy
-Claude S. Brinegar
-Caspar W. (Cap) Weinberger
-Length
-Presentations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 933-3 (cont’d)
-Meeting
-John Connally, Laird
-National economy
-President’s decision-making
-Recommendations
Watergate
-Press coverage
-White House response
-Connally
-President’s possible press conference
-Timing
-Brezhnev’s visit
-Popular opinion
-Joseph Alsop’s column
-Mail
-White House
-Networks
President’s conversation with William P. Rogers
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Meeting
-Health
-Contingency plans
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Ambassador to Mexico
-Appointment
-Rogers
-Political shrewdness
-Watergate
Watergate
-Rogers’ view
-Popular opinion
-Dean
-Connally’s view
-View of politics
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 933-3 (cont’d)
-President’s opponents
-Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
-President’s call to Gerald R. Ford
-Possible speech, possible resolution
-Impeachment resolution
-Carl B. Albert’s view
-President’s conversation with Rogers
-Meetings with Dean
-Rogers
-A meeting with Haig
President’s schedule
-Laird, Harlow, Haig
-Possible Sequoia cruise with President
-Florida Technical University speech
-Laird’s morale
Watergate
-Dean
-A Phone call from President
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President
-President’s response
-Buzhardt
-Credibility
-Press comment
-Alsop
-White House response
National economy
-Haig’s forthcoming conversations
-Dunlop
-Simon
-Status quo
-Haig’s view
-[Freeze]
-Experience
-Political viewpoint
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2011)
Conversation No. 933-3 (cont’d)
-Effect of Watergate
Watergate
-Charles W. Colson
-Television interview
-Albert E. Sindlinger’s statement
-Relationship to national economy
National economy
-Economic figures
-Timing
-Kelley’s nomination
-President’s trip to Florida
-Congressional relations
-William E. Timmons
-Possible freeze
-Execution
-Follow-up
-Phase II
-60 days
-Dunlop
-Status quo
-Possible freeze
-Expectations
John Connally
-Role on White House staff
-President’s schedule
-Watergate
-Haig
-Possible departure
-Laird
-Agnew
-Cabinet meetings
-COLC
-Energy
-President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [FIAB]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 933-3 (cont’d)
-Briefings
-Briefing officer
-Special advisory role
-Law firm
-Use of government plane
-Convenience
-Role
-Laird
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Connally’s role on White House staff
-Cabinet, National Security Council [NSC], Energy meetings
-Conflict of interest
-60 day freeze
-Simon, Dunlop, Shultz
-Views on economic package
-President’s views
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Connally
-Gimmick
Laird’s role
-Shultz
Forthcoming press statements
-Warren
-Assistant to President
-Ziegler
-Klein’s statement
-Ziegler
-Schedule of announcements
-White House staff changes
-Haig, Laird
-Draft
-Changes
-Typing
-Arrangements
-Warren [?], Laird, Haig
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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Conversation No. 933-3 (cont’d)
Personnel management
-Job offer
Haig and the President left at 10:03 am.