Conversation: 406-006
Prev:  406-005 Next: 406-007Start Date: 30-Jan-1973 12:35 PM
End Date: 30-Jan-1973 12:50 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)]; Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On January 30, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:35 pm to 12:50 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 406-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 406-6 Date: January 30, 1973 Time: 12:35 pm and 12:50 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. President's dictation machine -Location -Tape -Operation -Microphone Briefing book An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm. Briefing book [?] The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 12:50 pm. Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Possible meeting with Haldeman -Military planning -Hardline stance -Patrick J. Buchanan -Timing -Herman Kahn Press relations -Haig -Herbert G. Klein -Henry A. Kissinger’s trip to Vietnam -Press pool -5- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Mar.-09) Conversation No. 406-6 (cont’d) -Wire services -Ronald L. Ziegler -Prisoners of War [POWs] interviews -Hospital -Possible article -Congress -Peace efforts by President -President’s opponents -Possible author -William Randolph Hearst, Jr. -Buchanan -Distribution -Favorable editorial -Buchanan -Lyndon (“Mort”) Allin -London Daily Telegraph -Distribution -1973 Inauguration -1972 election -Victory -Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan -Campaign statements -President’s opponents -Possible article on response to Vietnam settlement -Victor Lasky -Time -President's meeting with Jerrold L. Schecter -Value -Editors -Philosophy -Raymond K. Price, Jr. -Decision by President -Gridiron Club dinners -Schecter -President's schedule -Amount of contact with President An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm. -6- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Mar.-09) Conversation No. 406-6 (cont’d) Delivery The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:50 pm. Press relations -Amount of contact with President -Value -Social events -Press conferences -Moynihan's plan -President’s opponents -Democratic partisans -John B. Connally -President’s supporters -Cynicism -Optimism Connally -President’s schedule -Plans -Assistance to President [?] -Charles W. Colson -Pressure -Political future -Lyndon B. Johnson’s death President's schedule -Briefing book Haldeman left at 12:50 pm.