Conversation: 949-011
Prev: 949-010 Next: 949-012Start Date: 12-Jul-1973 4:48 PM
End Date: 12-Jul-1973 5:09 PM
Participants:
Woods, Rose Mary; [Unknown person(s)]; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On July 12, 1973, Rose Mary Woods, unknown person(s), President Richard M. Nixon, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:48 pm to 5:09 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 949-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 949-11
Date: July 12, 1973
Time: 4:48 pm - 5:09 pm
Location: Oval Office
Rose Mary Woods met with an unknown person.
President’s location
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:09 pm.
The President entered at an unknown time after 4:48 pm.
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Conversation No. 949-11 (cont’d)
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Henry A. Kissinger’s location
Gifts
-Watch
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Kissinger entered at 4:50 pm.
Gifts
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) (Ryan) Nixon
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Identity of gift giver
Items
-Box
-Manolo Sanchez
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Woods left at an unknown time before 5:09 pm.
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Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 949-11 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Kissinger’s conversation with Norman Mailer, July 12, 1973
-Life magazine
-Lunch
-John N. Mitchell’s Ervin Committee testimony
-Popular opinion of President
-Access to files
-Ervin Committee
-Richard A. Moore’s Ervin Committee testimony
-President’s knowledge
-Questioning
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-March 20, 1972 meeting with President
-President’s knowledge
-Subsequent meeting with John W. Dean, III
-President’s knowledge
-Dean
-Conversations with President
-White House staff involvement
-Mitchell, John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Kissinger’s conversation with Mailer, July 12, 1973
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President’s schedule
-President’s health
-Viral pneumonia
-Medical test
-Sleeplessness
-Public knowledge
-Rest
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Conversation No. 949-11 (cont’d)
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Watergate
-Kissinger’s conversation with Mailer July 12, 1973
-President
-Compared to [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Kissinger’s discussions with President
-Youth
-Article
Year of Europe
-President’s previous meeting with Walter Scheel
-Konrad Adenauer
-France
-Security, economy, political consultation
-Germany, Great Britain’s support
-Belgium
-Kissinger’s consultations
-The Netherlands
-Support
-Italy
-Enthusiasm
-Effect
-Meetings
-Brussels, Paris
-Effect on Watergate
-Congressional relations
Watergate
-President’s conversation with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Ervin’s goal
-Ervin’s letter regarding access to files
-Compared to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Tone
-Access to files
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 949-11 (cont’d)
-Samuel Dash’s review
-Leaks
-President’s schedule
-Ervin
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Ervin Committee’s witness schedule
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Access to files
-Ervin’s leaks
-Press relations
-Access to files
-Possible compromise
-Melvin R. Laird, Bryce N. Harlow
-Crisis compared to Cambodia, Vietnam War
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-Baker
-Questioning of Dean and Mitchell
-Access to White House, President
-Mitchell’s Ervin Committee testimony
-Compared to Dean, Jeb Stuart Magruder
-President’s knowledge
-Testimony of Mitchell, Moore, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Charles W.
Colson
-Gordon C. Strachan’s possible testimony
-Haldeman
-Kissinger’s assessment
-Relevancy
-Prevalence
-President’s knowledge
-Firing of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-President’s accomplishments
-Contrasted with President’s opponents
-Treason
-Theft of Pentagon Papers
-Riots
-Cut-off of funds for war
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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Conversation No. 949-11 (cont’d)
-Kissinger’s travels for Vietnam negotiations
-White House response
-Possible speech by President
US foreign relations
-Year of Europe
-Germany’s role
-Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands
-France’s support
-President’s meetings with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War
-Scheel’s viewpoint
State Dinners
-Invitations
-Ambassadors
-Elegance
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Iran
-Ambassadors
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, George R. S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Desirability
-Iran
-Cromer
-Availability
-[Unintelligible name]
-Great Britain’s displeasure
-Age
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President’s health
-Kissinger’s knowledge
-X-ray
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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Conversation No. 949-11 (cont’d)
-President’s telephone call
-Viral pneumonia
-Recovery
-President’s schedule
-Rest
-Public relations [PR]
-Compared to press relations
-President’s schedule
-Scheel
-Commission on Fire Prevention
-PR
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s announcement
-President’s schedule
-Meetings
-Location
-Announcments
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Kissinger left at 5:09 pm.