Conversation: 947-016
Prev: 947-015 Next: 947-017Start Date: 10-Jul-1973 5:20 PM
End Date: 10-Jul-1973 6:10 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Sanchez, Manolo;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On July 10, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:20 pm to 6:10 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 947-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 947-16
Date: July 10, 1973
Time: 5:20 pm - 6:10 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. This recording began while the conversation was
in progress.
Congress
-Possible joint session on economic program
-Schedule
-Recess
-President’s conversation with Melvin R. Laird
National economy
-President’s forthcoming program
-Crisis approach
-Freeze
-Unanimity
-Arthur F. Burns’s view
-Announcement
-Possible joint session of Congress
-Crisis
-Watergate
-President’s critics
-President’s leadership
-Budget
-Congress
-President’s possible attack
-Watergate speech
-Inflation
-Radio
-President’s July 9, 1973 visit to Kansas City
-Press coverage
-Timing
-Congressional briefing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 947-16 (cont’d)
-John T. Dunlop
-Haig’s call from San Clemente
-George P. Shultz’s schedule
-Japan
-Shultz’s deputy
-Development
-Meeting
-Announcement
-Consultations
-Format
-Radio and television [TV] speeches
-Prime-time
-Complexity of financial programs
-Briefings for Congress
-Press release
-Committees
-Executive Office Building [EOB] briefing
-Briefing
-Format
-Press coverage
-Congressional leadership
-TV
-Shultz
-Congressional leadership
-Format
-Shultz
-Press coverage
-Radio speech
-Questions and answers
-Ronald L. Ziegler
Public relations
-President’s TV speech
-Economy compared to Watergate
-President’s leadership
-Bruce N. Harlow’s viewpoint
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 947-16 (cont’d)
President’s previous economic meeting
-Harlow
-Laird
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Compliments
-Cohesive nature of economic advisors
National economy
-Export controls
-John B. Connally’s views
-Reversal
-Importance of American consumers
-People’s Republic of China [PRC], Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics [USSR], Japan
-Domestic prices
-US food consumption
-Surplus
-Farmers
-Corn
-Farm legislation
-Laird, Harlow’s support
-President’s experience in Congress
-Compromise
-Milk subsidies
-Acreage
-Amount
-Release
-President’s speech
-Strategic stockpiles
-President’s speech
-Release
-Need for congressional action
-Harlow
-President’s forthcoming program
-Announcement
-Joint session of Congress
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 947-16 (cont’d)
-Unanswered questions
-Dunlop
-Industry concerns
-Compared to announcement of freeze
-Phase IV
-Shultz
-Economic meeting
-Debate
-Harlow
-Joint session of Congress
-Congressional action
-President’s possible attack
-Radio speeches
-Timing
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-John N. Mitchell’s testimony
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s view
-President’s knowledge
-Samuel Dash
-Mitchell
-Possible prison term
-Impeachment of President
-Democrats’ attacks
-George S. McGovern
-Ervin Committee hearings
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-Archibald Cox
-Haig’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-Indictments
-Charter
-1972 campaign
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Forthcoming meeting with Richardson
-Richardson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 947-16 (cont’d)
-Congress
-President’s possible resignation
-Frank Mankiewicz, Thomas W. Braden
National economy
-President’s forthcoming program
-Compared to Shultz
-Shultz’s schedule
-Japan, Peking
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Return from abroad
-Dunlop, Herbert Stein, Burns, Shultz
-Intellect
-Compared to Peter M. Flanigan, Roy L. Ash
-Laird’s role
-Political skill
-Shultz
-Ethics
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Connally
National economy
-Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Harlow
-Watergate
-Congress
-Presidential speech
-President’s economic package
-Dunlop
-President’s forthcoming program of Phase IV controls
-Announcement
-Timing
-Laird, Harlow
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Mitchell’s testimony
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 947-16 (cont’d)
-Mitchell
-Role
-John W. Dean, III, Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Role
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:20 pm.
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Julie Nixon Eisenhower and David Eisenhower’s schedule
-Dinner reservations
-Sequoia
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Weather
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Manolo Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:10 pm.
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearing
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Magruder
-Dean
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-President’s March 22, 1973 meeting
-Dean
-Charles W. Colson view
-Others’ forthcoming testimony
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Forthcoming testimony
-Richard A. Moore
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 947-16 (cont’d)
-White House response
-Haig’s forthcoming talk in New York July 11, 1973
-President’s activities
President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Meeting with Republican Congressional leadership
-Charles H. Percy
-President’s economic package
-Wild cards
-White House staff
Order
-Papers [?]
Haig left at 6:10 pm.