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Start Date: 12-Jul-1973 3:26 PM

End Date: 12-Jul-1973 4:00 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

949-006.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:26 pm to 4:00 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 949-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 949-6

Date: July 12, 1973
Time: 3:26 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

       Watergate
                                           -15-


                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                    (rev. October-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 949-6 (cont’d)

             -Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s television [TV] statement
                   -Ervin’s telephone call to President
                   -Committee’s desire for access to files
             -Edward J. Gurney’s telephone call to Melvin R. Laird
                   -Possible subpoena
                           -Daniel K. Inouye
                   -Gurney’s possible meeting with Inouye, Laird, and Bryce N. Harlow
                           -Laird’s view
                           -Views of Harlow, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., and Ronald L. Ziegler
                           -White House relations with Ervin Committee
                           -President’s possible meeting with Ervin

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:26 pm.

      President’s schedule
             -National Commission on Fire Prevention 

                     -Cancellation      

                     -Stephen B. Bull        

                     -Rose Garden        

                     -Press coverage       

                     -Report       

                     -Photograph      


The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.

      Watergate       

            -Schedule of Gurney and Inouye 

            -President’s schedule        

                   -Howard H. Baker, Jr.       

                           -William Timmons         

            -Ervin’s TV statement          

                   -Letter to President      

                           -Baker       

            -President’s schedule        

                   -Baker and Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. 

                   -Ervin         

                           -Press statement
                              -16-

    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                       Tape Subject Log
                      (rev. October-2012)

                                               Conversation No. 949-6 (cont’d)

-Schedules of Gurney and Inouye
-President’s schedule
       -Ervin
-President’s previous conversation with Ervin
       -Compared to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Chou En-lai
-Leaks
       -Ronald L. Ziegler
-Schedules of Gurney and Inouye
-Ervin Committee
       -Possible subpoena            

                -Harry S. Truman’s rejection of subpoena 

       -White House actions              

                -Toughness           

                -Countering partisanship        

       -Ervin’s relationship with President
       -Possible release on information by White House 

                -Buzhardt        

                -Archibald Cox             

                -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman 

-Cox
       -Elliot L. Richardson’s view
       -Role of public opinion
       -Possible investigation
                -Buzhardt, Patrick J. Buchanan, and Ziegler
-Leonard Garment
       -Intelligence, loyalty
-Ziegler, Harlow, Laird
-Access to files
       -Ervin Committee            

                -Leaks        

                -Samual Dash           

       -Dean
       -Buzhardt
                -Papers of Ehrlichman and Haldeman
                        -Haldeman’s safe
       -Dean
                -September 15, 1972 meeting with President and Haldeman
                                      -17-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                              (rev. October-2012)

                                                        Conversation No. 949-6 (cont’d)

              -President’s schedule

President’s meeting with Senators, July 11, 1973
       -Richardson
       -Law, order, social justice
       -Federal judges
              -Toughness

Appointment of federal judges
      -Garment’s role
      -Haig’s telephone call to Jonathan Moore
             -Richardson’s statement in U.S. News and World Report
      -Requirements         

             -Ideology         

             -Religion, race        

                     -Jews

Presidency
       -Powers
             -Liberals

Watergate
      -Access to file        

             -Haldeman            

             -Ervin Committee           

                      -Ervin’s conversation with President
                              -Exchange of letters
                              -Ervin’s TV appearance
      -Ervin Committee           

             -Treatment of Dean and Mitchell 

             -Baker         

                      -Timmons
                      -White House response
                              -Charles W. Colson        

             -Gurney           

             -Baker         

                      -Timmons
                               -18-

    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                        Tape Subject Log
                       (rev. October-2012)

                                                 Conversation No. 949-6 (cont’d)

                -President’s schedule         

                        -Meeting with Ervin       

                -Questioning of Dean
-George H. W. Bush
-Barry M. Goldwater, Sr.
        -Laird, Harlow
-Access to files
        -Possible statement
                -Indications of criminal activity
-Executive privilege
-Dean
-Executive privilege
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Political material
        -Republican National Committee [RNC]

        -Committee for the Re-election of the President [CRP]

        -Buzhardt’s view          

        -Gordon C. Strachan’s files         

-Cox
-Ervin Committee
        -Partisanship, irresponsibility
        -Leaks
-Cox
        -Buzhardt’s view
        -Possible removal
-Ervin Committee
        -TV
-Ervin’s TV statement
        -President’s schedule
                -Subpoena
        -Access to files
-President’s conversation with Ervin
        -Ervin Committee’s possible attack on President
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Ervin
        -Recording conversation [White House tapes?]
                -Notification
-President’s conversation with Ervin
                                            -19-


                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                    (rev. October-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 949-6 (cont’d)

                     -Committee’s goals
                     -Baker, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. 

              -Ervin’s statements          

              -Goldwater          

                     -Forthcoming conversation with Harlow
                     -President’s schedule
                     -Possible ambassadorial appointment
                               -Mexico          

              -Baker         

                     -Timmons
              -Haig’s meeting with Ziegler, Harlow, Garment, Buzhardt, and Laird
              -White House response
                     -Garment
              -President’s schedule          

                     -Ervin           

                     -Walter Scheel            

              -Access to files
                     -Buzhardt’s study of precedents
                     -Precedents
                               -Teapot Dome
              -Compared to previous crises
                     -Cambodia, May 8, December 18 [December bombing]
                     -Compromise
              -President’s schedule          

                     -Baker            

                     -Dash          

                     -Timmons            


An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:26 pm.

       Timmons       

            -Meeting with President         


Haig and the unknown man left at 4:00 pm.
                                          -20-


                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                    Tape Subject Log 

                                   (rev. October-2012)

                                                            Conversation No. 949-7 (cont’d)