Conversation: 931-001
Prev: 930-008 Next: 931-002Start Date: 4-Jun-1973 8:12 AM
End Date: 4-Jun-1973 8:34 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; [Unknown person(s)]; Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On June 4, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., unknown person(s), and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:12 am to 8:34 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 931-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 931-1
Date: June 4, 1973
Time: 8:12 am - 8:34 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
President’s schedule
-Staff meeting
Event
-Israel
-Danny Kaye
-Speech
-Statements about President
-Compliments
-President’s conduct at John Ford Dinner
-Support for President
-Kaye’s personal politics
-Audience
-Haig’s conversation
Melvin R. Laird
-William J. Baroody, Jr.’s forthcoming call to Haig
-Position on White House staff
-Bryce N. Harlow’s opinion
-Additional candidates
-Experience with the administration
-Trustworthiness
Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] director position
-[Clarence M. Kelley]
-Timing of announcement
-Laird announcement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2011)
Conversation No. 931-1 (cont’d)
White House staff
-Laird, Peter G. Peterson [?]
-Internal White House decisions
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Records
-David C. Hoopes’s possible reproduction
-Restrictions on use
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Haig’s conversation with Hugh Scott, June 3
-Dean
-Records
-Hoopes
-Conversations with President
-Dates
-Ronald Ziegler
-President’s recollections
-Statement concerning meetings with President
-White House response to press story
-Ziegler
-Responses by Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Meetings with President
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-February 27, 28, 1973
-Ziegler
-Records
-Hoopes
-Haldeman
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:12 am.
Ziegler’s attendance at meeting
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:34 am.
Watergate news summary
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2011)
Conversation No. 931-1 (cont’d)
-Dean’s statements
-William Buckley, Jr.’s [?] column
-Veracity
-Dean
-Statements
-Documents
-Press coverage
-Motives
-President’s response
-Conversations concerning investigations
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-President
-Executive privilege
-Bugging President’s plane in 1968
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-William Sullivan
-White House response
-Clark Clifford’s statement
-Resignations of President and Spiro T. Agnew
-Democrats
-Popular opinion
-Testimony of Robert E. Cushman, Jr. and Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-White House involvement in cover-up
-Walters’s memoranda of conversations [memcons]
-Leak to New York Times
-President’s opponents' strategy
-Clifford
-Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
-Statement concerning President’s impeachment
-Governors
-Linwood Holton
-Possible effect
-White House response
-President’s impeachment
-McCloskey
-Walters’s memcons
-New York Times coverage compared to Washington Post
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2011)
Conversation No. 931-1 (cont’d)
-Dean
-New York Times
-Revelation of Huston Plan
-Press coverage
-News summary
-Popular opinion
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] poll
-Ervin Committee hearings
-David Brinkley’s mail
-Conversation with Henry A. Kissinger [?]
-Haig
-Effect on career
-Dean
-Possible future revelations
-Meetings with President
-$1,000,000
-President’s call to Haldeman on June 3
-Haldeman’s recollections
-Las Vegas
-Clemency
-Time
-President’s response
-Tape
-President’s motive
-White House response
Ronald Ziegler entered at 8:29 am.
Watergate news summary
-Dean
-Chronology of meetings with President
-Haldeman’s recollection
-Log
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 8:33 am.
Watergate news summary
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2011)
Conversation No. 931-1 (cont’d)
-Dean
-Records
-Copies, originals
-Possible examination by President
-Hoopes
-Knowledge of location
Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 8:29 am.
Watergate news summary
-Dean
-Chronology of meetings with President
-February 28, March 1, 1973
-March 2, 1973 press conference
-Records
-Originals
-Memoranda
-Dean’s dictation
-Ziegler
Ziegler left at 8:33 am.
Watergate news summary
-President’s position
-White House response
-Records
-Ehrlichman
Laird
-Possible role on White House staff
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Haig’s assessment of candidates
-President’s appointment strategy
-Congressional questioning of appointee
The President and Haig left at 8:34 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2011)