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929-005a
- President Richard M. Nixon
- Alexander M. Haig
May 29, 1973
Conversation No. 929-5
Date: May 29, 1973
Time: 9:12 am - 9:48 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-President’s previous conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-President’s possible grand jury appearance
-White House response
-White House response
-White Paper
-Effect on prosecutors
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Ziegler
-6-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
-John B. Connally
-Possible actions by Elliot L. Richardson and Congress
Request for Executive decision
-Presidential proclamation
-Disaster relief
-Arkansas
-Mississippi
-Tornadoes
President’s schedule
-William P. Rogers
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John A. Scali
-Middle East
-Negotiated settlement
-Arabs
-Israel
-US focus
-Scali’s statement
-Kissinger
-Bipartisan Congressional leaders
-Briefing
-Kissinger
-Paris
-Bipartisan Congressional leaders
-Rogers
-Rogers
-Newspaper
-Travel
-South America
-Reports
-William E. Timmons
-Eighth Armored Division Association Award
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] journalists
-Logistics
-7-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
-Cabinet
-[Quadriad] economic meeting
-Haig’s meeting with Connally
-Activities of George P. Shultz and Herbert G. Stein
-Opinion of Connally and Roy L. Ash
-Academic, theoretical environment
-Action
-Status quo
-Arrival of Connally
-Activities of Shultz and Stein
National economy
-Arthur F. Burns’s view
-Boom
-Slowing down
-Balloon burst
-Recession
-Connally’s view
-Legitimacy of views
-Shultz’s view
-Haig’s view
-“Theoretical purity”
-Timing
-Lack of confidence
Energy
-Bill
-Peter M. Flanigan’s efforts
-Meeting with Haig
-Shultz’s efforts
-Haig’s meeting with Connally
-Camp David meeting on energy
-President’s schedule
-Iceland
-Bureaucratic fights
-Organizational structure
-Rogers C. B. Morton, Shultz and Flanigan
-8-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
-Czar
-Flanigan
-Haig’s view
-Connally’s view
-Recommendation
-Flanigan
-Status
-Role of czar
-Clerk
-Conversation with Haig
White House staff
-Morale
-Handling
-Replacements
-Coddling
-Peter G. Peterson
-Future plans
-Ambassadorship
-Announcement
-Lieber Brothers [?]
-Leave of absence
-Haig’s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Negotiating position
-Kissinger’s birthday party
-Peterson’s toast
-Critique of White House operation
-Kissinger’s response
-Kissinger’s mood
-Flanigan
-Haig’s handling
-Replacements
-Coddling
-Position changes
-Value
National economy
-9-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
-Shultz’s view
-Recognition of a problem
-Substance
-Attitude
-Energy
-President’s meeting
-Connally
-Quadriad
-Burns
-Burns
-[Price] controls
-Indirect controls
-Interest rates
-Freeze
-Haig’s view
-Dedication
-Quadriad meeting
-Length
-President’s attendance
-Democratic Congressional leaders reception
-President’s decision
-Follow up meeting
-Confidence factor
-Wall Street
-Connally
-Mood
-President’s decision
-Controls
-Uncertainty
-Force
-Leadership
Peterson
-Kissinger’s view
-Possible role with administration
-Attitude
-Sally Peterson
-10-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
-Source of stories
-Tenure
President’s schedule
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Press photograph
-Scali
-Timing
Kissinger
-Press briefing
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Possible reaction in Congress to confirmation as Secretary of State
-Prestige
-Wiretaps
-Confidentiality
Rogers
-Tenure
-Conversation with Haig
-Rogers’s future
-White House counsel
-Watergate
-Secretary of State
-Continuance in office
-Reorganization
-Relations with Kissinger
-Effect
-Attitude
-State Department
-National Security Council [NSC]
-President’s feeling
-Resolution
-United States foreign policy issues
-Vietnam
-Soviet Union
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
-Kissinger’s role in administration
-Timing of departure
-Announcement
Foreign policy structure
-Conflicts
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Compared to Committee on International Economic Policy [CIEP],
Quadriad
-Shultz
-Energy
-Trade
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Secretary of the Treasury
-Team player
-Haig’s discussion with Connally
President’s schedule
-Ziegler
-Haig’s staff meeting schedule
-Timing
-Ziegler
-Press briefings
-President’s comments
-Florida trip
-Mood
Watergate
-News reports regarding the President’s possible grand jury appearance
-Seymour M. Hersh
-Archibald Cox
-Evidence
-White House response
-White Paper
-Effects
-Prosecutors’ goals
-12-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
-Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Effect of White Paper
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr’s view
-John W. Dean III
-Possible indictments
-John N. Mitchell and Jeb S[tuart] Magruder
-Washington Post story
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Mitchell and Magruder
-Cox
-Washington Post story
-President’s possible grand jury appearance
-Evidence
-White House response
-President’s press conference
-Timing
-Camp David
-Ziegler
-Substantive announcement
-Timing
-Reorganization
-Energy
-Economy
-Georges J. R. Pompidou’s meeting
-Shultz
-Energy
-Kissinger-Rogers situation
-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s visit
-Congress
-Robert P. Griffin’s view
-President’s handling
-Content
-Introduction
-Reorganization
-Pompidou
-Rogers, Kissinger
-Brezhnev
-Energy
-13-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
President’s schedule
-Haig
-Morning meeting
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
Haig left at 9:48 am.
Date: May 29, 1973
Time: 9:12 am - 9:48 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-President’s previous conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-President’s possible grand jury appearance
-White House response
-White House response
-White Paper
-Effect on prosecutors
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Ziegler
-6-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
-John B. Connally
-Possible actions by Elliot L. Richardson and Congress
Request for Executive decision
-Presidential proclamation
-Disaster relief
-Arkansas
-Mississippi
-Tornadoes
President’s schedule
-William P. Rogers
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John A. Scali
-Middle East
-Negotiated settlement
-Arabs
-Israel
-US focus
-Scali’s statement
-Kissinger
-Bipartisan Congressional leaders
-Briefing
-Kissinger
-Paris
-Bipartisan Congressional leaders
-Rogers
-Rogers
-Newspaper
-Travel
-South America
-Reports
-William E. Timmons
-Eighth Armored Division Association Award
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] journalists
-Logistics
-7-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
-Cabinet
-[Quadriad] economic meeting
-Haig’s meeting with Connally
-Activities of George P. Shultz and Herbert G. Stein
-Opinion of Connally and Roy L. Ash
-Academic, theoretical environment
-Action
-Status quo
-Arrival of Connally
-Activities of Shultz and Stein
National economy
-Arthur F. Burns’s view
-Boom
-Slowing down
-Balloon burst
-Recession
-Connally’s view
-Legitimacy of views
-Shultz’s view
-Haig’s view
-“Theoretical purity”
-Timing
-Lack of confidence
Energy
-Bill
-Peter M. Flanigan’s efforts
-Meeting with Haig
-Shultz’s efforts
-Haig’s meeting with Connally
-Camp David meeting on energy
-President’s schedule
-Iceland
-Bureaucratic fights
-Organizational structure
-Rogers C. B. Morton, Shultz and Flanigan
-8-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
-Czar
-Flanigan
-Haig’s view
-Connally’s view
-Recommendation
-Flanigan
-Status
-Role of czar
-Clerk
-Conversation with Haig
White House staff
-Morale
-Handling
-Replacements
-Coddling
-Peter G. Peterson
-Future plans
-Ambassadorship
-Announcement
-Lieber Brothers [?]
-Leave of absence
-Haig’s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Negotiating position
-Kissinger’s birthday party
-Peterson’s toast
-Critique of White House operation
-Kissinger’s response
-Kissinger’s mood
-Flanigan
-Haig’s handling
-Replacements
-Coddling
-Position changes
-Value
National economy
-9-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
-Shultz’s view
-Recognition of a problem
-Substance
-Attitude
-Energy
-President’s meeting
-Connally
-Quadriad
-Burns
-Burns
-[Price] controls
-Indirect controls
-Interest rates
-Freeze
-Haig’s view
-Dedication
-Quadriad meeting
-Length
-President’s attendance
-Democratic Congressional leaders reception
-President’s decision
-Follow up meeting
-Confidence factor
-Wall Street
-Connally
-Mood
-President’s decision
-Controls
-Uncertainty
-Force
-Leadership
Peterson
-Kissinger’s view
-Possible role with administration
-Attitude
-Sally Peterson
-10-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
-Source of stories
-Tenure
President’s schedule
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Press photograph
-Scali
-Timing
Kissinger
-Press briefing
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Possible reaction in Congress to confirmation as Secretary of State
-Prestige
-Wiretaps
-Confidentiality
Rogers
-Tenure
-Conversation with Haig
-Rogers’s future
-White House counsel
-Watergate
-Secretary of State
-Continuance in office
-Reorganization
-Relations with Kissinger
-Effect
-Attitude
-State Department
-National Security Council [NSC]
-President’s feeling
-Resolution
-United States foreign policy issues
-Vietnam
-Soviet Union
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
-Kissinger’s role in administration
-Timing of departure
-Announcement
Foreign policy structure
-Conflicts
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Compared to Committee on International Economic Policy [CIEP],
Quadriad
-Shultz
-Energy
-Trade
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Secretary of the Treasury
-Team player
-Haig’s discussion with Connally
President’s schedule
-Ziegler
-Haig’s staff meeting schedule
-Timing
-Ziegler
-Press briefings
-President’s comments
-Florida trip
-Mood
Watergate
-News reports regarding the President’s possible grand jury appearance
-Seymour M. Hersh
-Archibald Cox
-Evidence
-White House response
-White Paper
-Effects
-Prosecutors’ goals
-12-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
-Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Effect of White Paper
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr’s view
-John W. Dean III
-Possible indictments
-John N. Mitchell and Jeb S[tuart] Magruder
-Washington Post story
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Mitchell and Magruder
-Cox
-Washington Post story
-President’s possible grand jury appearance
-Evidence
-White House response
-President’s press conference
-Timing
-Camp David
-Ziegler
-Substantive announcement
-Timing
-Reorganization
-Energy
-Economy
-Georges J. R. Pompidou’s meeting
-Shultz
-Energy
-Kissinger-Rogers situation
-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s visit
-Congress
-Robert P. Griffin’s view
-President’s handling
-Content
-Introduction
-Reorganization
-Pompidou
-Rogers, Kissinger
-Brezhnev
-Energy
-13-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 929-5 (cont’d)
President’s schedule
-Haig
-Morning meeting
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
Haig left at 9:48 am.