Conversation: 538-013
Prev: 538-012 Next: 538-014Start Date: 6-Jul-1971 11:12 AM
End Date: 6-Jul-1971 11:45 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:13:58
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:33:43
NARA Description:
On July 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:12 am and 11:45 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 538-013 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 538-13
Date: July 6, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:12 am and 11:45 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Pentagon Papers
-John N. Mitchell’s forthcoming meeting with the President
-White House response
-John D. Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson, Haldeman
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Employee of the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-United States’ Information Agency [USIA] employee
-Unnamed man active in Vietnam prisoner of war [POW] matters
-Richard H. Ichord’s committee
-Job with Ichord’s committee
-Fletcher S. Thompson
-Leaks to the committee
-Polygraph tests
-Haldeman’s conversation with Mitchell
-Test on Charles M. Cooke, Jr.
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Defense Department
-Ehrlichman
-Robert C. Mardian
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 11:26 am
-People involved
-Investigation
-Cooke
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Refusal to turn over documents
-National Security Council (NSC)
-State Department
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Laurence E. (“Larry”) Lynn, Jr.
-Morton H. Halperin, Lynn
-Circumstantial nature of evidence
-Documents
-Southeast Asia
-Mathias
-Internal White House investigation
-William P. Rogers
-Mardian, William B. Macomber, Jr., Colonel Richard T. Kennedy
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Deposition
-White House investigation
-Former CIA employee
-Role
-Washington Star article
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Staff
-Conspiracy
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Leak stories
-Neil Sheehan
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman
Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:45 am
Pentagon Papers case
US foreign relations
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Kissinger
-Response to USSR postponement of summit
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
-Negotiations
-Background
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] Treaty
-Haig’s view
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO], West Germany
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Forthcoming announcement of People’s Republic of China [PRC]
Conv. trip
No. 538-13 (cont.)
-Effect on USSR
-Kissinger
-Handling of developments
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-PRC
-USSR
-Vietnam War
-North Vietnam
-Da Nang attack
-US military plans
-Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
-Paris Peace Talks
-Kissinger
-Timing of future US action
-Negotiating stance
-South Vietnam
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-US bombing
-Election
-South Vietnamese Chief of Staff
-Visit
Haig left at 11:45 am