Conversation: 949-002
Prev: 949-001 Next: 949-003Start Date: 12-Jul-1973 2:15 PM
End Date: 12-Jul-1973 2:50 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Tkach, Walter R. (Dr.); Lukash, William M.; Kissinger, Henry A.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On July 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Dr. Walter R. Tkach, William M. Lukash, Henry A. Kissinger, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:15 pm and 2:50 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 949-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 949-2
Date: July 12, 1973
Time: Unknown between 2:15 pm and 2:50 pm
Location: Oval Office
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met with Dr. Walter R. Tkach and Dr. William M. Lukash.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 949-2 (cont’d)
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President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Tkach’s recommendations
-Return to Washington, DC
-Timing
-X-ray
-Swimming
-President’s health
-Fever
-President’s health
-Viral pneumonia
-Recovery
-Compared to bacterial pneumonia and influenza [?]
-Symptoms
-X-ray
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1A
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 6 s ]
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President’s schedule
-President’s health
-Viral pneumonia
-Symptoms
-Duration
-X-ray
-Work load
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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Conversation No. 949-2 (cont’d)
-Hospital
-Papers
-Economic policy
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1B
[Deed of Gift – Privacy]
[Duration: 14 s ]
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President’s schedule
-President’s health
-Publicity
-Economic policy
-President’s health
-Publicity
-X-ray results
-Cancellations
-White House staff, Congress members
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Excuse
-President’s health
-Viral pneumonia
-Stigma
-Publicity
-X-ray results
-Symptoms
-Duration
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-2 (cont’d)
President’s schedule
-Cancellations
-President’s health
-Rest
-X-ray
-Restrictions
-Announcement
-Timing
-Trip to Bethesda
-Dr. [First name unknown] Jordan
-Telephone
-Bethesda Naval Hospital, Navy Clinic
-Press relations
-Timing
-President’s desire for prognosis
-Economic speech
-Congressional relations
-Walter Scheel
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Naval clinic
-President’s visibility
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President’s health
-X-ray results
-Prognosis
-Symptoms
-Previous night
-Sleeplessness
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-2 (cont’d)
President’s health
-Tkach and Lukash’s schedule
-Announcement
-X-ray
-Cancellations
-Naval clinic
-Timing
-Traffic
-White House
-X-ray machine
-President’s schedule
-Departure for clinic
Tkach and Lukash left at 2:29 pm.
President’s health
-Announcement
Watergate
-Ervin Committee
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr., Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-John N. Mitchell
-White House response
-Haig’s meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler, Bryce N. Harlow, and Melvin R.
Laird
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-Access to files
-Ervin Committee files
-Ervin and Howard Baker
-President’s possible Ervin Committee appearance
-Subpoenas
-Witness schedule
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Samuel Dash
-President’s schedule
-Ziegler
-Unknown men’s access to records
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 949-2 (cont’d)
-Notes compared to copies
-John W. Dean, III
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:33 pm.
Watergate
-Norman Mailer’s telephone call to Kissinger
-President
-John N. Mitchell’s testimony
-Ervin’s telephone call to President
-Access to files
-Dash
-Supreme Court
-Mailer’s telephone call to Kissinger
-Popular opinion
-Article arguments [?]
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Conspiracy
-Detente policies [?]
Kissinger left at 2:36 pm.
Watergate
-White House response
-Harlow
-Ervin’s telephone call to President
-President’s schedule
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President’s health
-Hospital stay
-Viral pneumonia
-Walter Reed Medical Center
-Suite [?]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 949-2 (cont’d)
-X-ray
-Utility
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Watergate
-Harlow
-Leonard Garment
-President’s conversation with Ervin [?]
-Objectivity
-Michael Gravel
-Ervin Committee
-Baker
-White House response
-Ziegler, Gerald L. Warren, Harlow
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-William E. Timmons
-Dash
-Unknown man from North Carolina
-Ervin
-Ervin Committee
-Dean’s testimony
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Haldeman’s, Charles W. Colson’s forthcoming testimony
-Colson’s possible conversation with Haig or J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-White House response
-John B. Connally’s view
-Use of phrase “Peace with Honor”
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-Access to files
-Baker
-Ervin’s views of President
-Haldeman’s forthcoming testimony
-President’s September 15, 1972 conversation with Dean and Haldeman
-Dean’s activities
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 949-2 (cont’d)
-Haldeman’s forthcoming testimony
-Dean
-Effects of others’ testimony
-Mitchell
-Richard A. Moore
-March 21, 1973 conversation with President
-Mitchell and Haldeman
-March 20, 1973 telephone conversation with President
-Possible use by White House
-White House staff involvement
-March 21, 1973 conversation with President
-White House staff involvement
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Ellsberg break-in
-Haldeman
-$350,000
-Mitchell
President’s determination
Haig left at an unknown time before 2:50 pm.