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Start Date: 12-Jul-1973 8:22 PM

End Date: 12-Jul-1973 8:44 PM

Participants:

Kissinger, Henry A.[Unknown person(s)]Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Ziegler, Ronald L.Nixon, Richard M. (President)White House operator

Recording Device: Oval Office

949-014.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 12, 1973, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Ronald L. Ziegler, President Richard M. Nixon, and White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:22 pm and 8:44 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 949-014 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 949-14

Date: July 12, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:22 pm and 8:44 pm
Location: Oval Office

Henry A. Kissinger met with an unknown man.

       President’s schedule         

              -Departure        


Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.

       President’s health       

              -President’s schedule        

                      -Departure
                             -Bethesda Naval Medical Center
                             -Earlier trip
                      -Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
                             -Spiro T. Agnew, Kissinger
                             -Thelma C. (“Pat”) (Ryan) Nixon
                                     -Planning      

              -Announcement           


Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.

       Announcement
                                                        -49-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                           Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. October-2012)

                                                                Conversation No. 949-14 (cont’d)

              -Timing         

              -Length        

              -President’s health           


Ziegler left at an unknown time before 8:44 pm.

The President entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.

       President’s health
              -Rest

The President talked with the White House operator at 8:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 949-14A]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 41-68]

[End telephone conversation]


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

       President’s health        

              -Treatment             


[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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       President’s schedule
              -Bhutto’s state visit             

                      -Cancellation                 

                      -Agnew          

                      -Rome         

                                             -50-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. October-2012)

                                                              Conversation No. 949-14 (cont’d)

                      -William P. Rogers
                      -Compared to Congress members
                      -President’s support
                      -Delay
                      -Agnew
                      -Thelma C. (“Pat”) (Ryan) Nixon
                      -Hospital
                      -Cancellation
                             -Humiliation
                             -President’s support
                      -Compared to Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
                      -Compared to John C. Stennis
                      -Confrontation
                             -Hospital        

                      -Cancellation        

              -Signature         

                      -Haig        

              -Staff and family

              -Bhutto        

                      -Compared to Ervn
                      -Kissinger’s forthcoming telephone call to Pakistani ambassador
              -Hospital
                      -Duration

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 8:33 pm.

       President’s health   

              -Announcement          


Ziegler left at an unknown time before 8:44 pm.

       President’s health
              -Announcement           

                      -Dr. Walter Tkach’s diagnosis       

                      -Effect on American people        

              -President’s schedule
                      -Effect on Ervin and Archibald Cox
                                                 -51-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. October-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 949-14 (cont’d)


       Watergate
             -President’s conversation with Ervin
                     -Ervin’s goal
                     -Leaks
             -Ervin Committee
                     -John N. Mitchell’s testimony
                     -Richard A. Moore’s testimony
                     -John W. Dean, III’s testimony
                     -John D. Ehrlichman’s possible testimony
             -Gordon C. Strachan
                     -Possible Ervin Committee testimony
                     -Immunity
             -Effect

       President’s meeting with Walter Scheel

       President’s foreign policy accomplishments
              -Year of Europe
              -Summit
              -Vietnam War

       Watergate       

             -President’s opponents          

                    -Rowland Evans               


       President’s health       

              -Ziegler’s announcement                

              -White House press corps 

              -President’s schedule      

                      -Kissinger

       Haig’s schedule

       Ziegler’s location

Kissinger and Haig left at an unknown time before 8:44 pm.
                                               -52-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                        Tape Subject Log 

                                       (rev. October-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 949-17 (cont’d)