Conversation: 942-006
Prev: 942-005 Next: 942-007Start Date: Friday, June 15, 1973 12:46 PM
End Date: Friday, June 15, 1973 1:51 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)]; Ziegler, Ronald L.; Woods, Rose MaryRecording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On June 15, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), Ronald L. Ziegler, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:46 am and 9:51 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 942-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 942-6
Date: June 15, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:46 am and 9:51 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-President’s meeting with Nellie L. Yates, June 14, 1973
-Dedication ceremony
-Request for Haig’s review
Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Henry A. Kissinger’s statement
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] response
-President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-Content
-Delivery
Kissinger entered at 9:20 am.
Foreign travel
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Forthcoming meeting with PRC ambassador
-Possible trip to PRC
-Kissinger’s opinion
-Possible trips
-Russia, Europe
-PRC
-Timing
-“Year of Europe”
-Use to convey White House message
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 942-6 (cont’d)
-Russia
-Implications
-Eastern Europe
-President’s previous conversations
-Timing
-PRC, Russia
-PRC
-Kissinger’s possible visit
-France
-Congressional visit
-Agnew
-Knowledge of US strategy
-Agnew
-Possible trips
-Eastern Europe
-Poland, Hungary
-PRC
-Message to PRC ambassador
-Possible trips
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Kissinger
-Agnew
-President, Chou En-Lai
-Exchange of visits
-Agnew
-Timing
Forthcoming Brezhnev trip
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin [?]
-President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
Press coverage
-Kissinger’s briefing, June 14, 1973
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Iceland
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Motives
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 942-6 (cont’d)
-Political battle
Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Congressmen
-Reception
-Significance
-Press coverage
-Objectivity
-New York Times
-Vietnam, Cambodia
-Compared to John W. Dean, III’s forthcoming testimony
Watergate
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Popular opinion
Foreign relations
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-US – PRC relations
-PRC ambassador
-President’s message
-Kissinger’s invitation to San Clemente
-Activities
-Suggestion for possible Chou visit
-French foreign minister [Maurice Schumann]
-San Clemente
Bryce N. Harlow
-Role on White House staff
-Agnew
-Haig, Kissinger
Agnew
-Possible trips
-Middle East
Personnel appointment
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 942-6 (cont’d)
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Middle East
-Posting to Soviet Union
-Soviet Union
Middle East
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with President
Kissinger left at 9:30 am.
Agnew
-Previous conversation with President
-Timing
-Need for communication
President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-Content
-Change
-Reference to Watergate
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am.
Request for Ziegler
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:32 am.
President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-Change
-Reference to Watergate
-Request for Ziegler
-Content
Congress
-House
-Cambodia
-Senate
-Hugh Scott
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 942-6 (cont’d)
-Remarks
-President’s assessment
Ziegler entered at 9:32 am.
President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-Mistake
-[Speechwriters]
-President’s assessment
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 9:36 am.
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-President’s knowledge
-John W. Dean, III
-White House response
-Status
-News stories
Press coverage
-Energy, Brezhnev visit
-Tone
-Television [TV]
-Washington Post
Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 9:32 am.
President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-Error
-Distribution
-Change
-Raymond K. Price, Jr., John K. Andrews, Jr., David R. Gergen
-Possible Watergate reference
-Possible press response
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 942-6 (cont’d)
Ziegler left at 9:38 am.
National economy
-President’s program
-Congressional response
John B. Connally
-News story
-Haig’s conversation with Bob Toth, June 14, 1973
-Source in Texas
-Anne L. Armstrong’s conversation with Connally, June 14, 1973
-Meetings with President
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rowland Evans article
-Role in administration
-Staff
-State Department
National economy
-President’s program
-Arthur F. Burns
-Conversation with Haig, June 14, 1973
-Support for President
-Forthcoming testimony
-George P. Shultz
-Conversation with Haig, June 15, 1973
-Controls
-Limited timeframe
Shultz
-Morale
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Receiving party
-State Dinner
-Earl L. Butz
-Nikolai S. Patolichev
-Sequoia
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 942-6 (cont’d)
-Conversation with Burns, June 14, 1973
-President’s assessment
-Role
-[Workload]
-Laird
-Relationship with Roy L. Ash
-Haig’s assessment
National economy
-President’s program
-Press coverage
-White House staff
Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am.
Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Burns
-Invitation
-Woods’s forthcoming telephone call
-Message from President
Woods left at an unknown time before 9:51 am.
National economy
-President’s program
-Effect
-Haig’s opinion
-Shultz
-Congress
-Labor negotiations
-Wages
-Dan Rather’s remarks, June 15, 1973
60 Minutes
-June 17, 1973 show
-Changes to theme
-National economy, energy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 942-6 (cont’d)
-Ziegler, Shultz, Kissinger, Haig
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Magruder
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Mitchell
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Possible immunity
-Haldeman
-Maurice H. Stans
-Harry Reasoner’s comments concerning Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Report
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Dean
-President’s knowledge
-White House staff procedures
-Workload in 1972
President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-Delivery
-Airplane flight
-Socialization with passengers
Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Results of trip with President [?]
-Speech
Haig left at 9:51 am.