Conversation: 949-006
Prev:  949-005 Next: 949-007Start Date: 12-Jul-1973 3:26 PM
End Date: 12-Jul-1973 4:00 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; [Unknown person(s)]; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On July 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:26 pm to 4:00 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 949-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 949-6 Date: July 12, 1973 Time: 3:26 pm - 4:00 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Watergate -15- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. October-2012) Conversation No. 949-6 (cont’d) -Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s television [TV] statement -Ervin’s telephone call to President -Committee’s desire for access to files -Edward J. Gurney’s telephone call to Melvin R. Laird -Possible subpoena -Daniel K. Inouye -Gurney’s possible meeting with Inouye, Laird, and Bryce N. Harlow -Laird’s view -Views of Harlow, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., and Ronald L. Ziegler -White House relations with Ervin Committee -President’s possible meeting with Ervin An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:26 pm. President’s schedule -National Commission on Fire Prevention -Cancellation -Stephen B. Bull -Rose Garden -Press coverage -Report -Photograph The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm. Watergate -Schedule of Gurney and Inouye -President’s schedule -Howard H. Baker, Jr. -William Timmons -Ervin’s TV statement -Letter to President -Baker -President’s schedule -Baker and Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. -Ervin -Press statement -16- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. October-2012) Conversation No. 949-6 (cont’d) -Schedules of Gurney and Inouye -President’s schedule -Ervin -President’s previous conversation with Ervin -Compared to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Chou En-lai -Leaks -Ronald L. Ziegler -Schedules of Gurney and Inouye -Ervin Committee -Possible subpoena -Harry S. Truman’s rejection of subpoena -White House actions -Toughness -Countering partisanship -Ervin’s relationship with President -Possible release on information by White House -Buzhardt -Archibald Cox -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman -Cox -Elliot L. Richardson’s view -Role of public opinion -Possible investigation -Buzhardt, Patrick J. Buchanan, and Ziegler -Leonard Garment -Intelligence, loyalty -Ziegler, Harlow, Laird -Access to files -Ervin Committee -Leaks -Samual Dash -Dean -Buzhardt -Papers of Ehrlichman and Haldeman -Haldeman’s safe -Dean -September 15, 1972 meeting with President and Haldeman -17- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. October-2012) Conversation No. 949-6 (cont’d) -President’s schedule President’s meeting with Senators, July 11, 1973 -Richardson -Law, order, social justice -Federal judges -Toughness Appointment of federal judges -Garment’s role -Haig’s telephone call to Jonathan Moore -Richardson’s statement in U.S. News and World Report -Requirements -Ideology -Religion, race -Jews Presidency -Powers -Liberals Watergate -Access to file -Haldeman -Ervin Committee -Ervin’s conversation with President -Exchange of letters -Ervin’s TV appearance -Ervin Committee -Treatment of Dean and Mitchell -Baker -Timmons -White House response -Charles W. Colson -Gurney -Baker -Timmons -18- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. October-2012) Conversation No. 949-6 (cont’d) -President’s schedule -Meeting with Ervin -Questioning of Dean -George H. W. Bush -Barry M. Goldwater, Sr. -Laird, Harlow -Access to files -Possible statement -Indications of criminal activity -Executive privilege -Dean -Executive privilege -International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] -Political material -Republican National Committee [RNC] -Committee for the Re-election of the President [CRP] -Buzhardt’s view -Gordon C. Strachan’s files -Cox -Ervin Committee -Partisanship, irresponsibility -Leaks -Cox -Buzhardt’s view -Possible removal -Ervin Committee -TV -Ervin’s TV statement -President’s schedule -Subpoena -Access to files -President’s conversation with Ervin -Ervin Committee’s possible attack on President -President’s forthcoming meeting with Ervin -Recording conversation [White House tapes?] -Notification -President’s conversation with Ervin -19- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. October-2012) Conversation No. 949-6 (cont’d) -Committee’s goals -Baker, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. -Ervin’s statements -Goldwater -Forthcoming conversation with Harlow -President’s schedule -Possible ambassadorial appointment -Mexico -Baker -Timmons -Haig’s meeting with Ziegler, Harlow, Garment, Buzhardt, and Laird -White House response -Garment -President’s schedule -Ervin -Walter Scheel -Access to files -Buzhardt’s study of precedents -Precedents -Teapot Dome -Compared to previous crises -Cambodia, May 8, December 18 [December bombing] -Compromise -President’s schedule -Baker -Dash -Timmons An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:26 pm. Timmons -Meeting with President Haig and the unknown man left at 4:00 pm. -20- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. October-2012) Conversation No. 949-7 (cont’d)