Conversation: 041-045
Prev: 041-044 Next: 041-046Start Date: Friday, June 22, 1973 6:02 PM
End Date: Friday, June 22, 1973 6:08 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On June 22, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 2:02 pm to 2:08 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 041-045 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 41-45
Date: June 22, 1973
Time: 2:02 pm - 2:08 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. November-2012)
Conversation No. 41-45 (cont’d)
[See also Conversation No. 448-7]
President’s agreement with Leonid I. Brezhnev an use of nuclear weapons
-Reaction
-John F. Kennedy’s administration
-Use of threat of force
Provisions
-Effect of US
-Restraint
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-“Brezhnev Doctrine”
-Reaction
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Political risk of agreement
-Achievements of the administration
-Reaction
-New York Times, Washington Post, Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Watergate
-J. William Fulbright
-Reaction
-Network television [TV]
-Dan Rather
-Thomas E. Jarriel
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Sarah McClendon
-Mood
-President’s conversation with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing
-Treaty
-Will of the parties
President’s meetings with Brezhnev
-Haig description
-Reaction
-Rather
-President’s accomplishments
President’s opponents
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. November-2012)
Conversation No. 41-45 (cont’d)
President agreement with Brezhnev
-Reaction
-Robert S. McNamara
-Government service
-Fulbright, Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-PRC
White House staff
-Haig’s meeting with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Meetings
-Melvin R. Laird
-Momentum
-Role of deputies
-Laird’s role
-US Congress
-Laird’s assessment of administration