Conversation: 944-007
Prev: 944-006 Next: 944-008Start Date: 18-Jun-1973 6:19 PM
End Date: 18-Jun-1973 6:54 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On June 18, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 6:19 pm to 6:54 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 944-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 944-7
Date: June 18, 1973
Time: 6:19 pm - 6:45 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
John A. Love
William W. Scranton
-Telephone conversation with Haig
Love
-Ann (Daniels) Love
-Travel plans
-Israel
-Job offer
-Environmentalism
-Compared to Scranton
-US need for energy
-Views on controls
-Political views
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 944-7 (cont’d)
Briefing at State Department
-Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Henry A. Kissinger, Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler entered at 6:21 pm.
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III’s possible Ervin Committee testimony
-White House response
-Statement
-Content and phraseology
-Dean
-Value
-Content and phraseology
-Dean
-Leaks
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Statement
-Gerald L. Warren
-Effect of Leonid I. Brezhnev summit
-President’s conversation with Buzhardt
-Dean
-Timing
-Ziegler and Haig conversation
-White House response
-Warren
State Department briefing
-Leonid M. Zamyatin
Watergate
-White House statement
Ziegler left at 6:27 pm.
Watergate
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 944-7 (cont’d)
-Dean
-Buzhardt
-Effect on credibility
-Charles W. Colson
-Dean
-Handling of funds
-$4,000
-$16,000
-Possible investigation
-Buzhardt
-Activities
-Ervin Committee
-Republican members
-Fred D. Thompson’s conversation with Buzhardt
-President’s opponents
-Compared to Cambodian actions
-Compared to the December Bombings
-Ervin Committee
-Scheduling of Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Possible statements
Ziegler entered at 6:40 pm.
Watergate
-Ervin Committee
-Scheduling of Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Content of Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Press coverage
Brezhnev’s visit
-Media coverage
-Ziegler’s impressions of Russian customs
-President’s speech
-Arrival
-President’s assessment of the media
-Signings
-Schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 944-7 (cont’d)
-Camp David
-Photographs
Photographs
-President and Kissinger in Florida
-Media coverage
-President and Brezhnev at Camp David
Brezhnev’s visit
-Agenda
-Press coverage
-San Clemente
-Communiqué
-Timing of Brezhnev’s speech
-Sunday morning newspapers
-Press coverage
-Photographs at the Grand Canyon
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Dean’s possible testimony
-Popular response
-Timing
-Brezhnev visit
-Content
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Dean’s documents
-Dean
-Attacks
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-Mitchell
-Buzhardt’s view
-Dean
-Attacks
-Richard A. Moore
-March 20, 1973 meetings with President and Moore
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 944-7 (cont’d)
-Possible attacks
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Unknown man’s articles
-Ervin committee
-Scheduling of Dean’s testimony
-Brezhnev’s visit
-Ervin
-Scheduling of Dean’s testimony
-Possible influences
-White House response
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Media coverage
-Compared with energy story
-White House response
-James W. McCord, Jr.’s allegations
-Dean
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-William L. Safire
-Columns
-Compared to Victor Lasky
-Dean
-Credibility
-Handling of funds
-Buzhardt’s possible release of story
-Colson’s views
-$22,000
-Payment of advertisements
-W. Richard Howard
-Gordon C. Strachan
-$15,000
-President’s view
-Payoffs to defendants
-Colson’s view
-Disposition
-Buzhardt
-Dean
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 944-7 (cont’d)
-$4,000
-Ehrlichman, Colson and Mitchell
-Buzhardt
-Possible release of story to press
-$4,000
-Forthcoming conversation with Samuel Dash
-Dean’s bank records
-Possible release of story
-Colson
President’s schedule
-State dinner
Brezhnev
-Ziegler’s assessment
-Media coverage
-Crowd reaction
The President, Haig, and Ziegler left at 6:54 pm.