On July 12, 1973, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Ronald L. Ziegler, President Richard M. Nixon, and White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:22 pm and 8:44 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 949-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 949-14
Date: July 12, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:22 pm and 8:44 pm
Location: Oval Office
Henry A. Kissinger met with an unknown man.
President’s schedule
-Departure
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.
President’s health
-President’s schedule
-Departure
-Bethesda Naval Medical Center
-Earlier trip
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Spiro T. Agnew, Kissinger
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) (Ryan) Nixon
-Planning
-Announcement
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.
Announcement
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Conversation No. 949-14 (cont’d)
-Timing
-Length
-President’s health
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 8:44 pm.
The President entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.
President’s health
-Rest
The President talked with the White House operator at 8:33 pm.
[Conversation No. 949-14A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 41-68]
[End telephone conversation]
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
President’s health
-Treatment
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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President’s schedule
-Bhutto’s state visit
-Cancellation
-Agnew
-Rome
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Conversation No. 949-14 (cont’d)
-William P. Rogers
-Compared to Congress members
-President’s support
-Delay
-Agnew
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) (Ryan) Nixon
-Hospital
-Cancellation
-Humiliation
-President’s support
-Compared to Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Compared to John C. Stennis
-Confrontation
-Hospital
-Cancellation
-Signature
-Haig
-Staff and family
-Bhutto
-Compared to Ervn
-Kissinger’s forthcoming telephone call to Pakistani ambassador
-Hospital
-Duration
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 8:33 pm.
President’s health
-Announcement
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 8:44 pm.
President’s health
-Announcement
-Dr. Walter Tkach’s diagnosis
-Effect on American people
-President’s schedule
-Effect on Ervin and Archibald Cox
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Conversation No. 949-14 (cont’d)
Watergate
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-Ervin’s goal
-Leaks
-Ervin Committee
-John N. Mitchell’s testimony
-Richard A. Moore’s testimony
-John W. Dean, III’s testimony
-John D. Ehrlichman’s possible testimony
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony
-Immunity
-Effect
President’s meeting with Walter Scheel
President’s foreign policy accomplishments
-Year of Europe
-Summit
-Vietnam War
Watergate
-President’s opponents
-Rowland Evans
President’s health
-Ziegler’s announcement
-White House press corps
-President’s schedule
-Kissinger
Haig’s schedule
Ziegler’s location
Kissinger and Haig left at an unknown time before 8:44 pm.
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