Conversation: 935-004
Prev: 935-003 Next: 935-005Start Date: 11-Jun-1973 9:05 AM
End Date: 11-Jun-1973 9:45 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On June 11, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:05 am to 9:45 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 935-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 935-4
Date: June 11, 1973
Time: 9:05 am - 9:45 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Haig’s schedule
-Staff meeting
National economy
-George P. Shultz’s paper
-President’s schedule
-Shultz, John B. Connally, John Dunlop
-Herbert Stein
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Consultation
-William E. Timmons
-Labor-Management Committee
-President’s frustration
-Bargaining
-Possible leaks
-Time
Vietnam Negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Strategy
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Return to Paris
-[Communique]
-US signature
-South Vietnam signature
-Delay
-Hanoi’s reaction
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 935-4 (cont’d)
-Concern
-[Communique]
-US signature
-President’s meeting
-Congressional deadline
-[Communique]
-US signature
-Delay
-Reaction
-Kissinger
-Bargaining position
-Timing
-Risk
Watergate
-Media interest
-Personnel changes
-Support for President
-Shift in public debate
-Interest in Watergater
-Joseph C. Kraft, Peter Lisagor
-Support for President’s actions
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Statement
-New York Times
-President’s reaction
-Staff
-Presidential campaign 1976
-John F. Kennedy
-Support for Jackson’s 1960 campaign
-George S. McGovern
-Jackson’s opposition
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Possible response
-President’s note to Timmons [?]
-Melvin R. Laird, Bryce N. Harlow
-Congressmen
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 935-4 (cont’d)
-Tom Korologos, Timmons
-Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott, Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Congressional support for President
-Importance
-Jackson
-World peace
-Influence of Watergate
-Bargaining positions of US and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR]
-Forthcoming agreements at summit
-Timmons’ recommendations
-Leftist media
-Portrayal of summit
-Marvin Kalb
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Possible response
-Congress
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Charles W. Colson’s role on White House staff
-Cabinet, Spiro T. Agnew, Goldwater, Ford, Scott, Mansfield, George D. Allen
-Laird, Harlow
-Aggressive media strategy
-Ford, Scott, Goldwater
Charles H. Percy
-Letter to President
-Haig’s forthcoming call to Percy
-Meeting with President
-Time
-Brezhnev visit
-Call for special prosecutor
-President’s view
-Effect on Elliot L. Richardson
-Scott
-Richardson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 935-4 (cont’d)
White House staff
-Harlow, Laird
-Schedules
-Timmons
-Strategy
-Forthcoming Brezhnev summit
-Haig’s conversation
National economy
-President’s forthcoming speech [?]
-Potential pitfalls
-Imprecise data
-Perception
-Laird’s view
-Political options
-President’s schedule
-Stein [?]
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Haig
-Need for economic advice
-President’s review of materials
-Lack of political acumen
-Options
-Roy L. Ash’s view
-William E. Simon
-Transition from wage and price freeze
-Stein’s view
-Simon’s view
-Shultz’s view
-Truth
-Laird’s view
-Political options
-President’s support
-Congressional support
-Peter M. Flanigan’s view
-Messaging to public
-Freedom
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 935-4 (cont’d)
-Prices
-Haig’s view
-Need for controls
-Imprecise data
-Connally’s view
-Steps after Freeze
-Flexibility of goals
-Laird’s view
-Quick assessment of goals
-Transition after goals
-Options
-Laird
-Role on White House staff
-Communication skills
-Shultz’s paper
-Connally’s review
-Possible freeze
-Duration
-Export controls
-License system
-Consultation with other nations
-Corporations
-Taxes
-Legislation
-Possible freeze
-Controls
-Purpose
-Delay
-Phase IV requirements
-Tighter standards
-Certainty
-President’s assessment
-Option 2
-Effects
-Foreign policy
-Shortages
-Black markets
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 935-4 (cont’d)
-Phase II
-Phase II controls
-Full production
-Demand pressure
-Post-1945 economy
-Possible freeze
-Duration
-Effects
-Uncertainty
-Connally’s views
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Timing
-Shultz’s contribution
-President’s assessment
-Foodstuffs
-Price controls
-Problems
-Shortage
-Phase III
-Transition period
-Course of action
-Controls
-Black market
-Shortages
-Need for action
-Connally, Laird
-Option 2
-Flanigan, Shultz, Stein
-Arthur F. Burns’s views
-Simon’s views
-President’s assessment
-Ash’s views
-President’s assessment
-Development of plan
-Administration’s position
-Timing
-Shultz
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 935-4 (cont’d)
-Simon’s view
-Freeze
-Price controls
-Raw agricultural products
-Export controls
-Stand-by status
-Positive change
-Generosity
-Soybeans
-Shortages
-International obligations
-Shultz’s plan
-Analysis
-Connally’s views
-President
-Development of plan
-Businessmen’s views
-Inflation
Watergate
-Editorial views
-Shift in opinion
-White House news summary
-Weekend talk shows
-Tone
-Appointments of Clarence M. Kelley and Laird
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Media participation
-President’s tenure
-Possible resignation
-Brezhnev visit
-Jackson
-Statements concerning President
-Timing
-Democratic caucus
-Timmons
-Protection of administration goals
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 935-4 (cont’d)
-Schools Act
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Importance
-White House response
-Agnew
-Speech
-Analysis
-Support for President
-Goldwater and right wing
-Intimidation of left wing
-Aiken
-Possible conversation with William P. Rogers
Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Confirmation hearings
-Timing
-Statements in Europe
Watergate
-Defense
-Robert S. McNamara
-Job description
William E. Colby appointment to Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Editorials
Kelley appointment to Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI]
-Media’s view
-Haig’s assessment
Melvin [?] Payne
-Forthcoming conversation with Flanigan
-Flanigan’s responsibilities
Energy czar
-An unknown man and Payne
-Forthcoming statement
-New approaches to energy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 935-4 (cont’d)
Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Kissinger
-Security
-San Clemente
-Jewish demonstrations
-Leonard Garment
-Demonstrations
-Watergate
-Brezhnev’s concerns
-Humiliations in US
-Executive Protective Service [EPS]
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Demonstrations
-Blair House, White House
-Distance
-Embarrassment to US
-Garment
-Israel’s embassy
-Haig’s contacts
-Possible judicial action
-District of Columbia Police Department
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Stans
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-John W. Dean, III
-Immunity
-Possible testimony concerning President
-Newsweek
-Magruder’s possible testimony
-Wiretaps
-John N. Mitchell, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Press coverage
-Archibald Cox
-Richardson’s mandate
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 935-4 (cont’d)
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] merger
-William J. Casey, Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-Hartford [Fire Insurance]
-Purpose
-Haig’s forthcoming conversation
-ITT member
-President’s conversation with Richard G. Kleindienst
-Richard W. McLaren
-Richardson
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Mandate to Cox
National economy
-Development of plan
Morale
Haig left at 9:45 am.