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Conversation: 942-006

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Start Date: 15-Jun-1973 8:46 AM

End Date: 15-Jun-1973 9:51 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Kissinger, Henry A.[Unknown person(s)]Ziegler, Ronald L.Woods, Rose Mary

Recording Device: Oval Office

942-006.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 15, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), Ronald L. Ziegler, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:46 am and 9:51 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 942-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 942-6

Date: June 15, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:46 am and 9:51 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois 

           -President’s meeting with Nellie L. Yates, June 14, 1973 

           -Dedication ceremony        

           -Request for Haig’s review 


     Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit 

           -Henry A. Kissinger’s statement 

           -People’s Republic of China [PRC] response 

           -President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois 

                 -Content      

                 -Delivery       


Kissinger entered at 9:20 am.

     Foreign travel      

           -Spiro T. Agnew         

                 -Forthcoming meeting with PRC ambassador 

                       -Possible trip to PRC       

                              -Kissinger’s opinion     

                 -Possible trips       

                       -Russia, Europe         

                       -PRC        

                              -Timing
                                     -“Year of Europe”
                              -Use to convey White House message
                                         -8-

              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. December-2011)

                                                           Conversation No. 942-6 (cont’d)

                 -Russia
                        -Implications      

                 -Eastern Europe         

                 -President’s previous conversations       

                 -Timing        

                        -PRC, Russia       

      -PRC      

           -Kissinger’s possible visit       

                 -France       

           -Congressional visit        

           -Agnew         

                 -Knowledge of US strategy          

      -Agnew       

           -Possible trips        

                 -Eastern Europe         

                        -Poland, Hungary       

      -PRC      

           -Message to PRC ambassador          

           -Possible trips        

                 -Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield       

                 -Kissinger         

                 -Agnew         

                 -President, Chou En-Lai        

                        -Exchange of visits       

                 -Agnew         

                        -Timing       


Forthcoming Brezhnev trip
      -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin [?]
      -President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois

Press coverage
      -Kissinger’s briefing, June 14, 1973 

            -Ronald L. Ziegler        

            -Iceland       

            -Forthcoming Brezhnev visit        

            -Motives       

                                        -9-

             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. December-2011)

                                                         Conversation No. 942-6 (cont’d)

                 -Political battle

Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
      -Congressmen        

            -Reception        

            -Significance         

      -Press coverage       

            -Objectivity        

            -New York Times

                  -Vietnam, Cambodia
            -Compared to John W. Dean, III’s forthcoming testimony

Watergate
     -Dean’s forthcoming testimony
     -Popular opinion

Foreign relations
      -Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
            -US – PRC relations
                  -PRC ambassador
                       -President’s message
                       -Kissinger’s invitation to San Clemente
                             -Activities      

                             -Suggestion for possible Chou visit     

      -French foreign minister [Maurice Schumann] 

            -San Clemente       


Bryce N. Harlow
     -Role on White House staff 

           -Agnew       

           -Haig, Kissinger      


Agnew
    -Possible trips
          -Middle East

Personnel appointment
                                                   -10-


                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                             Tape Subject Log 

                                           (rev. December-2011)

                                                                  Conversation No. 942-6 (cont’d)

            -Joseph J. Sisco
                  -Middle East
                  -Posting to Soviet Union
            -Soviet Union

      Middle East
           -Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with President

Kissinger left at 9:30 am.

      Agnew
          -Previous conversation with President
                -Timing
          -Need for communication

      President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
            -Content
            -Change
                  -Reference to Watergate

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am.

      Request for Ziegler

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:32 am.

      President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
            -Change
                  -Reference to Watergate
                  -Request for Ziegler
            -Content

      Congress     

           -House     

                -Cambodia          

           -Senate    

                -Hugh Scott            

                                                -11-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                       Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. December-2011)

                                                             Conversation No. 942-6 (cont’d)

                       -Remarks
                       -President’s assessment

Ziegler entered at 9:32 am.

     President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois 

           -Mistake       

           -[Speechwriters]       

                 -President’s assessment

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 9:36 am.

     Watergate      

          -Ervin Committee hearings       

                -Jeb Stuart Magruder      

                      -President’s knowledge            

                -John W. Dean, III      

                      -White House response             

          -Status      

                -News stories       


     Press coverage       

           -Energy, Brezhnev visit          

           -Tone       

                 -Television [TV]       

                 -Washington Post


Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 9:32 am.

     President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
           -Error
           -Distribution
           -Change
           -Raymond K. Price, Jr., John K. Andrews, Jr., David R. Gergen
                 -Possible Watergate reference       

           -Possible press response      

                                                 -12-


                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                        Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. December-2011)

                                                              Conversation No. 942-6 (cont’d)

Ziegler left at 9:38 am.

      National economy       

           -President’s program

           -Congressional response           


      John B. Connally 

           -News story        

                 -Haig’s conversation with Bob Toth, June 14, 1973 

                        -Source in Texas     

                 -Anne L. Armstrong’s conversation with Connally, June 14, 1973
           -Meetings with President
           -Melvin R. Laird
                 -Rowland Evans article
           -Role in administration       

                 -Staff     

                 -State Department         


      National economy       

           -President’s program

                 -Arthur F. Burns      

                       -Conversation with Haig, June 14, 1973 

                             -Support for President     

                       -Forthcoming testimony       

           -George P. Shultz      

                 -Conversation with Haig, June 15, 1973 

           -Controls       

                 -Limited timeframe


      Shultz      

            -Morale       

            -Forthcoming Brezhnev visit              

                  -Receiving party       

                  -State Dinner       

                  -Earl L. Butz      

                  -Nikolai S. Patolichev         

                        -Sequoia
                                           -13-


                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                   (rev. December-2011)

                                                            Conversation No. 942-6 (cont’d)

           -Conversation with Burns, June 14, 1973
           -President’s assessment
           -Role
                 -[Workload]
                 -Laird
           -Relationship with Roy L. Ash
                 -Haig’s assessment

     National economy       

          -President’s program

                -Press coverage     

                      -White House staff        


Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am.

     Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
           -Burns
                -Invitation
                -Woods’s forthcoming telephone call
                      -Message from President

Woods left at an unknown time before 9:51 am.

     National economy       

          -President’s program

                -Effect     

                      -Haig’s opinion
                -Shultz
                -Congress
                -Labor negotiations
                      -Wages
                -Dan Rather’s remarks, June 15, 1973

     60 Minutes
          -June 17, 1973 show
                -Changes to theme
                      -National economy, energy
                                                  -14-


                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                        Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. December-2011)

                                                             Conversation No. 942-6 (cont’d)

                  -Ziegler, Shultz, Kissinger, Haig

      Watergate      

           -Ervin Committee hearings         

                 -Magruder        

                       -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Mitchell   

                 -Gordon C. Strachan        

                       -Possible immunity      

                             -Haldeman
                 -Maurice H. Stans
                 -Harry Reasoner’s comments concerning Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
                 -Report
                 -Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
                 -Dean
           -President’s knowledge       

                 -White House staff procedures     

                 -Workload in 1972        


      President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois 

            -Delivery       

            -Airplane flight      

                  -Socialization with passengers

      Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 

           -Results of trip with President [?]

                 -Speech        


Haig left at 9:51 am.