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Start Date: 12-Jun-1973 4:52 PM

End Date: 12-Jun-1973 5:27 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

938-006.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:52 pm to 5:27 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 938-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 938-6

Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 4:52 pm - 5:27 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     National economy
          -Advisors’ views        

                -Tone       

                -Compared to President’s views      

          -Export regulation        

                -Possible legislation    

                      -Export licensing     

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             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. July-2012)

                                                         Conversation No. 938-6 (cont’d)

                  -Trade with the enemy Act           

                  -Export administration Act          

                  -Secretary of Commerce            

     -Export licensing
           -Export administration Act           

                  -Challenges         

                  -Congressional authority          

     -P.L. 480 [Public Law 480] 

           -Haig’s conversation with George P. Shultz 

           -Shultz’s views          

                  -President’s authority          

           -Notification        

     -Possible legislation        

           -Justice Department study          

     -Possible price freeze         

           -Congressional relations        

                  -Poll      

                        -House of Representatives        

                        -Senate         

                  -Possible letter from President to Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
                        -Hugh Scott
                               -Vote
                  -Administration efforts
                        -Public relations [PR]
                               -Television
     -Shultz, Herbert Stein, John T. Dunlop
           -Morale        

     -Views of Spiro T. Agnew and Peter M. Flanigan 

     -Possible Congressional action         

           -Timing

John B. Connally
     -Role on White House staff 

           -Cabinet and Quadriad meetings       

           -Shultz     

           -Leonid I. Brezhnev dinner      

                 -National Security Council [NSC]
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             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. July-2012)

                                                         Conversation No. 938-6 (cont’d)

            -Cabinet and Quadriad meetings       

            -Energy meetings      


Forthcoming energy meeting
      -Timing
      -Melvin Payne
      -William L. Horton
            -Health      

      -Package       

      -Administrator       

            -Compared to Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] 

                  -Clarence M Kelley     


Vietnam negotiations
     -Communiqué         

           -Henry A. Kissinger        

           -Haig’s experience       

                 -Saigon      

     -Election      

           -Haig’s recent conversation with Charles Whitehouse 


Public relations [PR]

Bryce N. Harlow appointment
     -Timing

John D. Ehrlichman’s letter to President, June 11, 1973
     -Haig’s view
     -President’s view
     -Haig’s view
            -Ehrlichman’s contact with Haig
            -Accuracy of letter      

     -Criticism of Haig       

     -Watergate        

     -Haig’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman 

     -Leonard Garment          

            -Media relations
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. July-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 938-6 (cont’d)

                 -Loyalty
           -Possible resignations      

                 -Agnew        

                 -Shultz, Roy L. Ash       

                 -Connally        

                       -Melvin R. Laird’s appointment
           -Laird
                 -Effect of appointment
                 -Haig’s conversations with Connally and Haldeman
                       -Ehrlichman
                       -Haldeman
                             -Lawrence M. Higby
                             -Judgment
           -President’s schedule      

                 -Haig’s role       

                       -Accessibility
                             -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Tod R. Hullin
                             -Ronald L. Ziegler, Ash

     White House staff 

          -Harlow        

          -Laird’s role      

                -Haig’s role
          -Haig’s role
                -Compared to Haldeman, Ehrlichman
                -Kissinger, Laird, Harlow
          -Morning meetings        

          -Harlow        

          -Ziegler        

          -Anne L. Armstrong, Ash 

          -Morning meetings        

                -Laird, Harlow, Ash, Ziegler, Haig, Kissinger, and Shultz
                -Frequency

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:52 pm.

     President’s schedule
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                        Tape Subject Log 

                                         (rev. July-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 938-6 (cont’d)

           -Barber

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:27 pm.

     White House staff meetings 

          -Frequency       

               -Wednesdays        

                      -Agenda       


     Shultz      

           -Forthcoming conversation with Haig 

                 -President’s plan for national economy
                       -President’s confidence in Shultz
                       -Pragmatism
           -Morale       

                 -Iceland       

                       -Haig’s conversation with Shultz
           -Ehrlichman’s letter to President
           -Relationship with Ash

     White House staff
          -Organization
                -Cole’s relationship with Ash
                -Ehrlichman’s assignment of responsibility to Ash
                      -Staff
          -Ash
                -Responsibilities
                      -Policy, politites
                -Relations with Cole and Shultz
          -Cole
                -Haig’s assessment
                -Possible meeting with President
                -Laird’s role

     Agnew
         -Forthcoming meeting with President and Haig
               -Previous meetings with President
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             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. July-2012)

                                                       Conversation No. 938-6 (cont’d)

                 -Distortions
           -President’s schedule
     -Haig’s conversation with Harlow
     -Laird

White House staff
     -Morale
           -Laird
           -Possible resignations
           -Cabinet
           -Leaks to media
     -President’s schedule
           -Connally
           -Kissinger
                 -President’s telephone calls
                       -Frequency

Ehrlichman’s letter to President
      -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
      -Views concerning Garment
             -John J. Wilson
                   -Anti-Semitism

White House staff
     -Garment’s role
          -Workload
          -Judgment
                 -Haig’s view
     -Connally’s
          -Forthcoming conversation with Haig
                 -Cabinet, National Security Council [NSC], Energy
                 -Value
          -Haig’s schedule
          -Shultz’s role
          -Conversations with Haig
                 -Frequency
                 -President’s schedule
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. July-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 938-6 (cont’d)

                        -William Clements, Laird        

                 -President’s schedule        

                        -Meetings       

                 -Politics      

                        -Farm legislation
                              -Shultz, Stein, Haig, and Ash
                              -Farmers, milk producers
           -Attitudes
           -President’s schedule
                 -Ash, Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft, Haig, Ronald L. Ziegler
                 -Kissinger problem
                 -Buzhardt

     Watergate
          -John W. Dean, III 

                -Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony     

                -Conversations with President       

                      -William O. Bittman
                             -Buzhardt
                      -After March 21, 1973
                      -Bittman
                -Possible allegations concerning payoffs
                -Allegations       

                      -Ehrlichman        

                      -President       

                             -$1,000,000
          -Possible duration
                -Dean
          -Forthcoming testimony of Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Charles W. Colson
                -President

Haig left at an unknown time before 5:27 pm.
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                       (rev. July-2012)