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Start Date: 7-Jun-1973 9:20 AM

End Date: 7-Jun-1973 10:04 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haig, Alexander M., Jr.[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Oval Office

934-005.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 7, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:20 am to 10:04 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 934-005 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 934-5

Date: June 7, 1973
Time: 9:20 am - 10:04 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

       National economy          

              -Haig’s meeting with George P. Shultz 

                     -Economic package            

                             -Herbert Stein         

                             -Options         

                                     -Additions
                                     -Freeze
              -Possible freeze        

                     -Haig’s support         

                     -Effects       

                     -John B. Connally          

                     -Problems          

                             -Structure
                             -Management System
                     -John T. Dunlop
                             -President’s recommendation
                             -Haig’s forthcoming conversations
                                     -Connally
                                     -Melvin R. Laird
                                            -Assistance to Haig
                                            -Duties for Laird
                             -Knowledge of labor, management
                     -Economic package
                             -Preparation
                                     -4-

           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                              Tape Subject Log
                            (rev. September-2011)

                                                       Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)

                             -Shultz       

              -Possible freeze        

                     -Shultz
                             -Recommendation
                             -Implementation
                     -Haig’s support         

                             -Congress         

                             -“Big play”         

                                     -Leadership
                                     -Controversy
                             -Congressional spending
              -Phase IV        

                     -Personnel needed           

                     -Preparation for freeze       


Vietnam negotiations
      -Henry A. Kissinger’s conversation with Haig, June 7, 1973
      -Nguyen Van Thieu
             -President’s meeting with Tran Kim Phoung 

             -Withdrawal of US Forces           

                      -Bug out          

             -Thieu’s style of negotiation        

      -[Communique]            

             -Signature          

                      -US          

                      -North Vietnam

      -Kissinger          

             -Possibility of failure        

             -South Vietnam’s public opinion        

                      -January 1973 agreement
      -Language of draft            

             -Hanoi          

             -Cambodia             

      -President’s letter        

             -Ambassador’s demarche           

             -Effectiveness           

             -Thieu’s response            

                                        -5-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                Tape Subject Log
                              (rev. September-2011)

                                                      Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)

       -US position       

             -Difficulty       

             -Thieu’s perceptions        

                     -South Vietnam’s viability
                     -Congress
                            -Hugh Scott
                            -Views on Cambodia
                            -Air Force pilots’ testimony
                                   -Constitutionality of actions
                                   -Air Force Academy
                                           -Refusal to fly
                                                    -December 1972

Watergate
      -Laird’s joining White House staff
      -Comment by [Arnold] Eric Sevareid
             -President’s innocence

National economy
       -Shultz and Stein       

              -Confidence          

              -Value of the dollar        

              -Gold prices         


Watergate
      -John W. Dean, III
             -Documents in New York Times, June 7, 1973
                   -White House response
                          -Haig’s instructions to Leonard Garment and J. Fred
                           Buzhardt, Jr.
                   -President’s papers
                          -Access

President’s schedule
       -Council of Americas meeting 

               -William P. Rogers         

               -Latin America      

                                       -6-

           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                             (rev. September-2011)

                                                           Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)

       -Elliot L. Richardson       

               -Motives      


Richardson
       -Ambitions         

              -Haig’s assessment          

              -Administration’s concern        

       -William Ruckelshaus         

              -Role as deputy         

              -Loyalty         

       -Court system reform

       -Joseph T. Sneed          

              -Future role in administration       

                     -Court appointment [?]            

                     -Similarity to Ruckelshaus            


Watergate
      -New York Times story, June 7, 1973
            -Huston plan
                   -May 22 statements
                           -Approval
                   -White House response
                           -Implementation
                           -J. Edgar Hoover’s objections
            -Wiretaps
                           -Press coverage of Robert F. Kennedy bugging
            -New York Times story, June 7, 1973 

                   -Effect         

                   -Weathermen          

            -Huston plan         

            -Attacks on President        

                   -Ronald L. Ziegler        


Vietnam negotiations
      -Kissinger
             -Agreement
                     -South Vietnam
                                     -7-

           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                              Tape Subject Log
                            (rev. September-2011)

                                                      Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)

              -Schedule          

                     -South Vietnam

                     -North Vietnam

       -South Vietnam’s position        

              -President’s irritation     

              -Opportunity          

              -Thieu        

                     -Phoung’s meeting with Haig
                     -US relations with People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet
                      Union

Watergate
      -President’s papers           

             -Buzhardt           

             -Charles A. Wright              

             -Garment          

             -Haig’s conversation with Buzhardt, June 6, 1973 

             -Possible subpoena              

             -Bryce N. Harlow’s view                  

             -Sequence of events               

                     -George H. W. Bush
                     -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                     -John D. Ehrlichman
                     -Charles W. Colson
             -Purpose
             -Possible access            

                     -Garment, Buzhardt, Wright         

                     -Haig            

             -Ownership            

             -Henry Petersen             

             -Diaries        

                     -Meetings             

                     -Secret Service               

      -White House response             

             -President’s activities             

                     -George Meany                  

                     -Leadership             

                              -8-

    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                       Tape Subject Log
                     (rev. September-2011)

                                              Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)

                       -Spending bills
                       -Minimum wage
                       -President’s papers
                       -Effect
                       -Economy
                       -Energy
                       -International affairs
                       -Effect
                                 -Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
       -Laird’s joining staff
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., Jeb Stewart Magruder, Ehrlichman, Dwight L. Chapin,
 Maurice H. Stans, Haldeman, John N. Mitchell
       -Possible allegations
-Mitchell
       -Possible testimony
               -Effects
-Dean
-Colson
       -Call from President
               -Howard K. Smith television interview
                       -Tricia Nixon Cox’s opinion
               -US attorneys
       -Dean
               -Prosecutors’ opinion
                       -Immunity
-Dean
       -Possible immunity            

               -Archibald Cox            

               -Effect         

       -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s possible testimony
       -Possible evidence against President          

               -Documents            

               -Telephone tapes            

       -Conversations with President, Haldeman           

               -Dates         

                       -E. Howard Hunt           

                                 -William O. Bittman       

                               -9-

    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                        Tape Subject Log
                      (rev. September-2011)

                                                Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)

                                -National security considerations
-President’s desire for full disclosure
       -Investigations
       -Hunt
               -National security considerations
       -Dean
               -Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Cox
       -Actions
               -Ervin, Samuel Dash
       -Possible removal [?]
-Buzhardt
       -Documents for Ervin Committee              

               -Dean          

               -Pace          

               -Haldeman’s memcons             

                        -Time span
-President’s conversations
       -Ehrlichman
       -Colson
               -Content          

       -Haldeman            

               -Content          

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Colson
       -Press stories about roles
       -Haldeman, Ehrlichman
       -Funds
       -Writing history of President’s first term for
       -Reader’s Digest
       -Peter M. Flanigan
       -Haldeman’s classmate on west coast
-White House staff
       -Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson
       -Story on current role
               -President’s conversations with Colson concerning labor matters
       -Call to Haldeman and Ehrlichman
               -Melvin R. Laird’s appointment
                                        -10-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                Tape Subject Log
                              (rev. September-2011)

                                                        Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)

                             -Haig’s call to Haldeman
                      -Laird’s conversation with Haig
                             -Content
President’s schedule
       -Cabinet meeting           

               -Length        

               -Gerald R. Ford, Scott              

               -Agenda          

                      -Economy           

                             -Shultz           


Shultz’s schedule
       -Camp David
              -Mrs. Shultz, staff

National economy
       -Preparation of economic package
              -Schedule of announcement           

                      -Crisis mode           

                      -Rollback          

       -Possible 60-day freeze
              -Implementation           

                      -Congress            

                      -Cost of Living Council         

                      -Administration’s cooperation        

                              -Business
                              -Industry
                              -Labor
              -Announcement            

                      -Possible television [TV] appearance       

                      -A draft       

                              -Difficulty
                                      -Speech writers
                              -Lee W. Huebner
                              -Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
                                             -11-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                    (rev. September-2011)

                                                               Conversation No. 934-5 (cont’d)

               -Agenda
                      -Scott, Ford, Laird, Ziegler, Cabinet members
               -Cabinet’s demeanor

       President’s schedule       

              -Clarence M. Kelley’s appointment 

                      -Photograph       

                             -Thompson [?]        

                             -Questions      

              -Cabinet meeting

An unknown man met with the President at 10:04 am.

       Laird

The President and Haig left at 10:04 am.