Conversation: 949-007
Prev: 949-006 Next: 949-008Start Date: 12-Jul-1973 4:01 PM
End Date: 12-Jul-1973 4:22 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Timmons, William E.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On July 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and William E. Timmons met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:01 pm to 4:22 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 949-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 949-7
Date: July 12, 1973
Time: 4:01 pm - 4:22 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with William Timmons
Watergate
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-President’s schedule
-John W. Dean, III
-Questioning of John N. Mitchell
-President’s conversation with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Timmons’s conversation with William E. Brock, III
-Mail
-Possible conversation with Pat Wilson
-George H. W. Bush
-Mitchell
-Activities
-Baker’s questioning
-Baker
-White House response
-Timmons
-Brock
-Possible attacks
-Tennessee
-Ervin Committee members
-Edward J. Gurney
-Ervin
-Joseph M. Montoya
-Intelligence
-Baker
-Baker
-President’s campaigning
-Brock
-Tennessee mail
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-7 (cont’d)
-Contacts with White House staff
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Dean’s testimony
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Richard A. Moore’s testimony
-Dean
-Access to files
-Timmons
-Samuel Dash
-Moore’s testimony
-Baker
-Timmons’s possible actions
-Timmons’s conversation with Brock
-Baker’s questioning of Mitchell
-Possible attacks by Senators
-Joseph McCarthy
-President’s meeting with Republican Senators, July 11, 1973
-Age
-Voting record
-Access to files
-Senate
-Support for Ervin Committee
-Sensitive information in Dean documents
-Leaks by Ervin
-Sensitive information in Dean documents
-Ervin
-Age
-Quote on Senate leaks
-Access to files
-Dash
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson
-Uninhibited conversation
-1972 campaign
-George S. McGovern
-Baker
-Activities
-Presidential ambitions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-7 (cont’d)
-Adulation of “Georgetown set”
-Everett M. Dirksen
-Ervin Committee
-Gurney
-Fred D. Thompson
-Dean’s testimony
-Meeting with Gurney regarding International Telephone and
Telegraph [ITT]
Congressional relations
-Senators
-Edward W. Brooke
-William B. Saxbe
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Invitations
-House
-Effect of 1972 elections on composition
-Vetoes
-Melvin R. Laird, Bryce N. Harlow
-Policy committee members
-Benjamin B. Blackburn, III’s telephone call to Timmons
-Daniel H. Kuykendall
-Georgia
-Previous meeting with Senators, July 11, 1972
-Carl T. Curtis
-Selection criteria
-Goldwater, Paul J. Fannin
-Roman L. Hruska, Curtis
-Senators
-Timing
-Previous meeting with Senators, July 11, 1972
-John G. Tower
-Fannin
-Blackburn, Kuykendall
-East Room
-Democrat Senators
-John C. Stennis
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-7 (cont’d)
-Health
-James O. Eastland, John L. McClellan, Sam Nunn, James B. Allen,
Bennett Johnston, Russell B. Long, Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Gale W. McGee
-Visit to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Warren Magnuson
-Visit to PRC
-David K. E. Bruce’s views
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Presidential aspirations
-Patriotism
President’s schedule
-Meetings with Congress members
Watergate
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s view
-Timmons’s conversation with John B. Anderson
-Public reaction to issue
-Samuel L. Devine
-Dean
-Ervin Committee testimony
-Appearance
-Glasses
Request for Henry A. Kissinger
Timmons left at 4:22 pm.