Conversation: 934-014
Prev: 934-013 Next: 934-015Start Date: 7-Jun-1973 5:55 PM
End Date: 7-Jun-1973 6:04 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On June 7, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:55 pm to 6:04 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 934-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 934-14
Date: June 7, 1973
Time: 5:55 pm - 6:04 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Haig’s schedule
Watergate
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Diligence
-Law experience
-Congress
Energy czar
-McComb [first name unknown]
-Oil industry
-John B. Connally’s conversation with Haig
-Jack King Horton
-Southern California
-[First name unknown] Nacet [?]
-Horton
-Tenacity
-McComb
-President’s familiarity
-Oil industry background
-Horton
-Electric company background
-George P. Shultz’s view
-McComb
-Dynamism
-President’s recommendation
-[First name unknown] Nacet [?]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-14 (cont’d)
National economy
-Wholesale price index
-Percentage change
-Preparation of economic package
-Camp David
-President’s possible speech
-Possible 60-day freeze
-Pending legislation
-President’s recommendation
-Gasoline
-Soybeans
-Effect on Congress
-Legislation
-Veto
-Leverage over labor unions
Connally
-Travel to Camp David
-Role on White House staff
-Attendance of Cabinet, Energy Committee, and Cost of Living
Council
-Conversation with Haig
-Role as Advisor
-Position papers
-Role with law firm
-Publicity
-Unpredictability
-Meetings with President
-Oval Office, Sequoia
-Frequency
-Role on White House staff
Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger’s call to Haig
-Notification
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2011)
Conversation No. 934-14 (cont’d)
-Discipline of message
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
-State Department
-Helmut Sonnenfeldt’s briefing
-Discipline of the Department
Vietnam Negotiations
-Kissinger
-Notification
Rogers’s schedule
-Central Treaty Organization [CENTO]
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
Watergate
-William J. Casey
-Forthcoming conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Movement of files
-John W. Dean, III
-John N. Mitchell
-Mitchell
-Effect on White House staff
-The media
-Haig’s conversation with James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-New York Times
The President and Haig left at 6:04 pm.