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Start Date: 11-Jun-1973 9:49 AM

End Date: 11-Jun-1973 10:01 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.Haig, Alexander M., Jr.

Recording Device: Oval Office

935-006.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 11, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:49 am to 10:01 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 935-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 935-6

Date: June 11, 1973
Time: 9:49 am - 10:01 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Press relations
           -Watergate
           -Paris Peace Talks
                  -White House news summary

     Watergate
          -Joseph W. Alsop’s column, June 11, 1973
                -John W. Dean, III
                      -Judgments concerning character
                             -Congress
          -Dean
                -Forthcoming cross-examination
                      -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
                -Documents
                -Meetings with President

     Press relations
           -Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
           -National economy
                  -President’s forthcoming speech
                        -Timing
           -Vietnam
           -Watergate
           -Shifts in focus
                  -President’s events in Florida and Illinois
                  -Staff organization
                  -Melvin R. Laird, Clarence M. Kelley
                  -Watergate
                  -Economy
                                        -14-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. July-2011)

                                                      Conversation No. 935-6 (cont’d)

           -Staff changes      

           -Vietnam

           -President’s tenure      

                 -President’s resolve       

                 -Alsop      

     -Forthcoming Brezhnev visit        


Watergate
     -Ervin Committee hearings          

           -Maurice H. Stans        

           -Jeb Stuart Magruder         

           -Dean       

     -Dean       

           -Immunity         

           -Archibald Cox         

           -Purpose        

                 -Charles W. Colson, John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
           -White House response          

                 -Buzhardt        

                 -Dean         

                 -Gerald L. Warren’s statement, June 10, 1973 

                        -Press coverage
                        -Newsweek story
                 -Tone
                 -Forthcoming testimony of Colson, Haldeman, Ehrlichman
                 -Alsop column
           -Patrick J. Buchanan        

                 -Column, June 11, 1973 in New York Times

                 -Joseph C. Kraft, Washington Post

                 -1972 election       

                        -Effect of Watergate
           -Spiro Agnew
                 -Forthcoming speech, June 11, 1973 on Ervin Committee
           -William E. Timmons’s activities       

                 -President’s meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. 

                 -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s statement        

                        -Brezhnev’s visit
                                             -15-


                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                       (rev. July-2011)

                                                                   Conversation No. 935-6 (cont’d)

                  -Gerald R. Ford, Barry M. Goldwater, Buchanan, Agnew, Hugh Scott

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered the office at an unknown time before 10:01 am.

Ziegler left at 10:01 am.