{"conversationCode":"944-006","tapeNumber":944,"conversationNumber":6,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-944-006","startDateTime":"1973-06-18T22:15:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-06-18T22:16:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Jun-1973","startTime":"6:15 PM","endDate":"18-Jun-1973","endTime":"6:16 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;","description":"On June 18, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 6:15 pm to 6:16 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 944-006 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":"5.5","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part V","chronReleaseDate":"21-Aug-2013","aogpRelease":"Abuse of Governmental Power Release","aogpSegment":"Segment 0","lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 944-6\n\nDate: June 18, 1973\nTime: 6:15 pm - 6:16 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.\n\f                                              -17-\n\n                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                            Conversation No. 944-6 (cont’d)\n\n      Watergate\n           -White House response\n                -Ronald L. Ziegler\n                -Ervin Committee\n                -Unidentified person\n                      -State Department\n                      -Television [TV] networks\n                -Ziegler\n\nHaig left at 6:16 pm.","filename":["944-006.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Haig, Alexander M., Jr."],"prevCode":"944-005","nextCode":"944-007","transcript":[{"start":0.38,"end":5,"text":"Why don't you just take off the last sentence?"},{"start":5.12,"end":5.7,"text":"All right."},{"start":5.74,"end":6.88,"text":"Who, uh, who won?"},{"start":6.92,"end":7.76,"text":"Who won the ass?"},{"start":8,"end":8.66,"text":"Who won the ass?"},{"start":8.68,"end":9.5,"text":"Who won the ass?"},{"start":9.54,"end":10.48,"text":"Who won the ass?"},{"start":10.5,"end":11.52,"text":"Who won the ass?"},{"start":12.79,"end":15.37,"text":"Who won the ass?"},{"start":15.39,"end":16.13,"text":"Who won the ass?"},{"start":16.77,"end":17.69,"text":"Who won the ass?"},{"start":17.75,"end":18.83,"text":"Who won the ass?"},{"start":18.85,"end":19.55,"text":"Who won the ass?"},{"start":19.57,"end":21.41,"text":"Who won the ass?"},{"start":21.45,"end":22.51,"text":"Who won the ass?"},{"start":22.53,"end":23.69,"text":"Who won the ass?"},{"start":23.81,"end":25.71,"text":"Who won the ass?"},{"start":30.76,"end":33.97,"text":"So you think we're going to be honest?"},{"start":34.15,"end":36.89,"text":"It's just an awesome."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. for a brief discussion regarding the White House's ongoing public relations strategy concerning the Watergate scandal. The two conferred on administrative messaging and the potential involvement of Ronald L. Ziegler in addressing queries from the Ervin Committee and television networks. The conversation resulted in a minor directive to refine a prepared statement by removing a concluding sentence.","topics":["Watergate","White House public relations","Ronald L. Ziegler","Ervin Committee","Media strategy"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-09T00:42:33.147Z"},"topicSlugs":["watergate","white-house-public-relations","ronald-l-ziegler","ervin-committee","media-strategy"],"audioDurationSec":61,"audioFiles":[{"file":"944-006.mp3","bytes":1970176,"durationSec":61.47,"bitrate":256422,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:06.981Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:45:07.008Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/944-006.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/944-006","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/944/conversation-944-006","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}