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446-006a
- President Richard M. Nixon
- J. Fred. Buzhardt
- Ronald L. Ziegler
- UNKNOWN
- Henry A. Kissinger
June 14, 1973
Conversation No. 446-6
Date: June 14, 1973
Time: 4:15 pm - 5:58 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
President’s schedule
-President’s speech on national economy, June 13, 1973
-Significance
-Public reception
-3-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Media coverage
Economic reports
-Media coverage
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Jeb S[tuart] Magruder
-Veracity
-Gordon Strachan
-Possible immunity
-Possible testimony
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s knowledge of cover-up
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Memorandum to David R. Young, Jr.
-Daniel Ellsberg’s file
-Buzhardt’s conversation with John W. Wilson
-Young’s testimony
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Forthcoming grand jury testimony
-Ehrlichman’s memo
-John W. Dean, III
-Interview June 14, 1973 with Fred Thompson and Samuel Dash
-Conversations with President concerning civil suit
-Judge Charles Richey
-Unnamed lawyers
-Dean’s June 15, 1972 meeting with President
-Haldeman’s notes
-September 15, 1972 conversation with President and Haldeman
-Lawrence F. O’Brien and the Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-President’s civil suit, Judge Richey
-[Henry] Roemer McPhee
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Edward A. McCabe
-McPhee and McCabe
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Dean
-Interview, June 14, 1973
-Thompson
-Strachan
-Ervin Committee
-Immunity
-Haldeman’s knowledge of break-in
-Contacts with President
-Haldeman
-Conversations with President concerning cover-up
-Conversation with John Wilson
-Budget
-Strachan
-Knowledge of cover-up
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s possible public statements
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee interview
-Frank H. Strickler
-Dean conversation March 21, 1973 with President
-William O. Bittman
-Dean
-Handling of funds
-$350,000
-Haldeman
-$22,000 to Charles Colson
-Maurice H. Stans’s testimony concerning Strachan
-Frederic C. LaRue
-Colson’s $22,000
-Remainder
-Advertisements
-Number
-W. Richard Howard’s conversation with Strachan
-Dean
-Handling
-Amount
-Haldeman
-Testimony
-5-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-March 21, 1973 meeting
-Wilson
-Mitchell
-March 22, 1973 meeting with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s notes
-Full disclosure
-Full disclosure
-Colson’s view
-President’s view
-Dean’s response
-Public relations
Ronald L. Ziegler talked with the President between 4:31 pm and 4:32 pm.
[Conversation No. 446-6A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 40-114]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Strachan
-Compared to Dean and Magruder
-Response to Magruder’s testimony
-Possible testimony concerning Haldeman
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Source
-Possible immunity
-White House response
-Cross-examination
-Cabinet
-Buzhardt
-Carl T. Curtis
-Strom Thurmond
-6-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
Ziegler entered at 4:34 pm.
Watergate
-White House response
-Buzhardt
-Barry Goldwater
-Congress
-William E. Timmons’s efforts
-Curtis, Goldwater
-John C. Stennis
-Operation
-Goldwater
-President’s activities
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-White House response
-Ehrlichman
-Memorandum concerning covert activities
-National security
-Strachan
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony concerning Haldeman
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Magruder
-Ervin Committee testimony, June 14, 1973
-Contacts with President
-Alleged conversation with Haldeman, January 1973
-Strachan
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony concerning Haldeman
-Response to break-in
-President, Ziegler
-White House staff involvement
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Magruder
-Magruder
-Henry E. Petersen
-Conversations with President
-Bittman and Blackmail
-7-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Possible testimony
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray
-Dean’s role on White House staff
-Conversations with President
-Dean
-Firing of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-William P. Rogers’s views
-Possible testimony
-Cover-up
-President’s conversations with Petersen
-Bittman
-Grand jury
-Wilson’s request of President
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman charges
-National security
-Ellsberg break-in
-Ziegler
-Dean
-Handling of remainder of Colson’s $22,000, June 1972
-Joe Baroody [?]
-Strachan
-Haldeman
-$350,000
-President
-Conversations concerning money
-Dean
-Handling of funds
-Cross-examination
-Possible transactional immunity
-Possible evidence against
-Magruder’s grand jury testimony
-John J. Caulfield’s testimony
-Clemency offer
-Immunity
-Archibald Cox
-Prosecutors’ views concerning evidence against President
-Response to President’s statement concerning immunity
-8-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Conversation with President concerning resignation
-Meetings with President, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Richard A. Moore
-Immunity
-President’s notes
-Moore’s recollections
-1968 bugging
-William C. Sullivan Cartha D. DeLoach
-Strachan
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony concerning Haldeman
-Dean
-Conversations with President
-White House staff involvement
-Strachan, Haldeman
-March 21, 1973
-Haldeman’s notes, President’s notes
-$350,000
-Ehrlichman
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Self-incrimination
-Involvement
-Cross-examination
-Dash
-Dash’s view
-White House response
-Dash
-Possible conversation with Leonard Garment
-Lawyers
-David Shapiro, Bittman
-Colson
-Ethnic affinities
-Congressional response
-Senators
-Republicans
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Timmons, Tom C. Korologos
-Edward J. Gurney
-Comments concerning Ervin and President
-9-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-President
-Tenure in office
-March 21, 1973 meeting with Dean
-Blackmail
-Bittman
-Clemancy offer
-John N. Mitchell
-Funds for defendants
-Conversation with Moore
-Burglars’ jail terms
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Mitchell
-Dean
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President and Haldeman
-Blackmail
-Haldeman’s possible testimony
-Petersen’s possible statement
-Funds for defendants
-Bittman
-Cessation of payment
-Date
-Dean’s conversation with President
-White House response
-President’s reporting to Petersen
-President’s response
-Dean’s possible testimony
-Strachan
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony
-Haldeman’s knowledge of cover-up
-Funds for defendants
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Haldeman
-Kalmbach
-Meeting with President, July 1972
-Funds for defendants
-Ehrlichman
-Ervin Committee hearings
-10-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Duration
-Testimony of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Mitchell
-Stans
-Mitchell’s possible testimony
-Dean
-Forthcoming cross-examination
-President’s role in Hiss case
Hiss case
-Alger Hiss
-President’s legal background
-Whittaker Chambers
-Book Witness
-James J. Kilpatrick’s column
Watergate
-Dean
-Possible appellations
-March 20, 1973 conversation with President
-Moore
-White House staff involvement
-Forthcoming cross-examination
-Conversations with Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI],
President, Petersen
-Conversations with Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s contacts with Gray, Petersen
-Conversations with Ehrlichman, Petersen, Gray
-Petersen
-Conversation with President concerning suspicions
-Suspicions
-Ehrlichman’s call concerning Stans’s subpoena
-Dean
-Dean
-Petersen’s view
-Purpose of meetings with Petersen
-Gray
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Forthcoming testimony
-Contacts with President
-FBI investigation
-Destruction of documents
-Effect
-Richard G. Kleindienst, Ehrlichman, President
-Knowledge of contents
-Ehrlichman
-Fred F. Fielding
-Dean
-Statements to Ehrlichman, Petersen and Earl J. Silbert
-Fielding’s statement
-Contents
-Ehrlichman’s alleged orders
-Dean
-Documents at Camp David
-Secretary
-Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy
-Memoranda from files
-Political intelligence from George McGovern’s secret
service guard
-Memoranda of conversations [memcons]
-Mitchell, Magruder, Haldeman meeting
-Meeting with Quigley [first name unknown]
-Meetings with President
-Motives
-Motives
-Effect of James McCord’s letter
-Call from Ziegler
-Conversations with President
-President’s response
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP] involvement
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson, Dean
-CRP staff involvement
-CRP staff involvement
-Clark MacGregor
-Magruder
-12-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Dean’s comments concerning testimony
-Dean
-Ervin Committee testimony
-Ervin Committee interview, June 14, 1973
-Conversations with President concerning civil cases
-Judge Richey
-Richey’s response
-Conversation with President concerning civil cases
-Possible date
-Haldeman’s notes
-Richey
-Possible date
-Richey
-Motives
-Lawyers goals
-Dash’s views
-Conversation with Garment
-Forthcoming cross-examination
-Thompson, Dash
Buzhardt left at 5:33 pm.
Henry A. Kissinger
-Congressional briefings, June 14, 1973
-Position
-Ministers
-San Clemente
Rose Mary Woods
-Title
-Work
-Review of President’s speeches
Watergate
-Dean
-Haldeman
-Strachan’s possible testimony
-13-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Magruder
-Ervin Committee testimony, June 14, 1973
-President’s knowledge
-Press coverage
-Strachan
-Dean
-Huston plan documents
-White House response
-Possible press response
-Dash
National economy
-President’s program
-Response
-Controversy
-Food prices
-Congressional response
-Partisan politics
-Assessment
-William Proxmire
-Reaction to measures in 1971
The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:33 pm and 5:43
pm.
[Conversation No. 446-6B]
[Begin telephone conversation]
Map room
Military aide’s office [?]
Henry A. Kissinger
-President’s request
[End telephone conversation]
-14-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
Kissinger
Bryce N. Harlow
-Media response to appointment
George P. Shultz
-Role in administration
-Energy program
-Disappointment
-Trade, Taxes
-Secretary of Treasury
-Stress levels
-Performance
-Trade, economics, international conferences
-William E. Simon
Kissinger talked with the President between 5:43 pm and 5:46 pm.
[Conversation No. 446-6C]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 40-115]
[End telephone conversation]
Leonid I. Brezhnev’s forthcoming visit
-Agenda
-San Clemente
-Agreements
-Nuclear
-Location of announcements
-White House
-San Clemente
-Communique agreements
-Location
-15-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Brezhnev’s speech
-Possible dates
-Agreements
-Possible dates
-Location
-East Room of White House
-Ziegler’s thoughts
-Brezhnev’s address to Congress
-Televised speech
-Agreements
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:46 and 5:48
p.m.
[Conversation No. 446-6D]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 40-116]
[End telephone conversation]
Brezhnev’s head of state visit
-Agenda
-Trip to San Clemente
-Discussions with Brezhnev
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger between 5:48 pm and 5:53 pm.
[Conversation No. 446-6E]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 40-117]
Brezhnev’s speech
-Timing
-16-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Location
-Ziegler’s opinion
[End telephone conversation]
Brezhnev’s head of state visit
-Speech
-Delivery
-Taping
-Camp David
-Media coverage
-Accommodations
-Camp David
-Dinner
-Restaurant
-Schedule
-Camp David
-Return
-“Spirit of San Clemente”
-“Spirit of Casa Pacifica”
Watergate
-Buzhardt
-Possible future revelations
-White House response
-Senate Select Committee
-Strachan cross-examination
President’s forthcoming speech at Pekin, Illinois
-Audience
-Content
-Foreign policy
-Reception of crowd
-National economy
-Technique
-Complexity of the speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
Ziegler left at 5:58 pm.
Date: June 14, 1973
Time: 4:15 pm - 5:58 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
President’s schedule
-President’s speech on national economy, June 13, 1973
-Significance
-Public reception
-3-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Media coverage
Economic reports
-Media coverage
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Jeb S[tuart] Magruder
-Veracity
-Gordon Strachan
-Possible immunity
-Possible testimony
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s knowledge of cover-up
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Memorandum to David R. Young, Jr.
-Daniel Ellsberg’s file
-Buzhardt’s conversation with John W. Wilson
-Young’s testimony
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Forthcoming grand jury testimony
-Ehrlichman’s memo
-John W. Dean, III
-Interview June 14, 1973 with Fred Thompson and Samuel Dash
-Conversations with President concerning civil suit
-Judge Charles Richey
-Unnamed lawyers
-Dean’s June 15, 1972 meeting with President
-Haldeman’s notes
-September 15, 1972 conversation with President and Haldeman
-Lawrence F. O’Brien and the Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-President’s civil suit, Judge Richey
-[Henry] Roemer McPhee
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Edward A. McCabe
-McPhee and McCabe
-4-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Dean
-Interview, June 14, 1973
-Thompson
-Strachan
-Ervin Committee
-Immunity
-Haldeman’s knowledge of break-in
-Contacts with President
-Haldeman
-Conversations with President concerning cover-up
-Conversation with John Wilson
-Budget
-Strachan
-Knowledge of cover-up
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s possible public statements
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee interview
-Frank H. Strickler
-Dean conversation March 21, 1973 with President
-William O. Bittman
-Dean
-Handling of funds
-$350,000
-Haldeman
-$22,000 to Charles Colson
-Maurice H. Stans’s testimony concerning Strachan
-Frederic C. LaRue
-Colson’s $22,000
-Remainder
-Advertisements
-Number
-W. Richard Howard’s conversation with Strachan
-Dean
-Handling
-Amount
-Haldeman
-Testimony
-5-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-March 21, 1973 meeting
-Wilson
-Mitchell
-March 22, 1973 meeting with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s notes
-Full disclosure
-Full disclosure
-Colson’s view
-President’s view
-Dean’s response
-Public relations
Ronald L. Ziegler talked with the President between 4:31 pm and 4:32 pm.
[Conversation No. 446-6A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 40-114]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Strachan
-Compared to Dean and Magruder
-Response to Magruder’s testimony
-Possible testimony concerning Haldeman
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Source
-Possible immunity
-White House response
-Cross-examination
-Cabinet
-Buzhardt
-Carl T. Curtis
-Strom Thurmond
-6-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
Ziegler entered at 4:34 pm.
Watergate
-White House response
-Buzhardt
-Barry Goldwater
-Congress
-William E. Timmons’s efforts
-Curtis, Goldwater
-John C. Stennis
-Operation
-Goldwater
-President’s activities
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-White House response
-Ehrlichman
-Memorandum concerning covert activities
-National security
-Strachan
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony concerning Haldeman
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Magruder
-Ervin Committee testimony, June 14, 1973
-Contacts with President
-Alleged conversation with Haldeman, January 1973
-Strachan
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony concerning Haldeman
-Response to break-in
-President, Ziegler
-White House staff involvement
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Magruder
-Magruder
-Henry E. Petersen
-Conversations with President
-Bittman and Blackmail
-7-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Possible testimony
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray
-Dean’s role on White House staff
-Conversations with President
-Dean
-Firing of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-William P. Rogers’s views
-Possible testimony
-Cover-up
-President’s conversations with Petersen
-Bittman
-Grand jury
-Wilson’s request of President
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman charges
-National security
-Ellsberg break-in
-Ziegler
-Dean
-Handling of remainder of Colson’s $22,000, June 1972
-Joe Baroody [?]
-Strachan
-Haldeman
-$350,000
-President
-Conversations concerning money
-Dean
-Handling of funds
-Cross-examination
-Possible transactional immunity
-Possible evidence against
-Magruder’s grand jury testimony
-John J. Caulfield’s testimony
-Clemency offer
-Immunity
-Archibald Cox
-Prosecutors’ views concerning evidence against President
-Response to President’s statement concerning immunity
-8-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Conversation with President concerning resignation
-Meetings with President, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Richard A. Moore
-Immunity
-President’s notes
-Moore’s recollections
-1968 bugging
-William C. Sullivan Cartha D. DeLoach
-Strachan
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony concerning Haldeman
-Dean
-Conversations with President
-White House staff involvement
-Strachan, Haldeman
-March 21, 1973
-Haldeman’s notes, President’s notes
-$350,000
-Ehrlichman
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Self-incrimination
-Involvement
-Cross-examination
-Dash
-Dash’s view
-White House response
-Dash
-Possible conversation with Leonard Garment
-Lawyers
-David Shapiro, Bittman
-Colson
-Ethnic affinities
-Congressional response
-Senators
-Republicans
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Timmons, Tom C. Korologos
-Edward J. Gurney
-Comments concerning Ervin and President
-9-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-President
-Tenure in office
-March 21, 1973 meeting with Dean
-Blackmail
-Bittman
-Clemancy offer
-John N. Mitchell
-Funds for defendants
-Conversation with Moore
-Burglars’ jail terms
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Mitchell
-Dean
-March 21, 1973 meeting with President and Haldeman
-Blackmail
-Haldeman’s possible testimony
-Petersen’s possible statement
-Funds for defendants
-Bittman
-Cessation of payment
-Date
-Dean’s conversation with President
-White House response
-President’s reporting to Petersen
-President’s response
-Dean’s possible testimony
-Strachan
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony
-Haldeman’s knowledge of cover-up
-Funds for defendants
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Haldeman
-Kalmbach
-Meeting with President, July 1972
-Funds for defendants
-Ehrlichman
-Ervin Committee hearings
-10-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Duration
-Testimony of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Mitchell
-Stans
-Mitchell’s possible testimony
-Dean
-Forthcoming cross-examination
-President’s role in Hiss case
Hiss case
-Alger Hiss
-President’s legal background
-Whittaker Chambers
-Book Witness
-James J. Kilpatrick’s column
Watergate
-Dean
-Possible appellations
-March 20, 1973 conversation with President
-Moore
-White House staff involvement
-Forthcoming cross-examination
-Conversations with Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI],
President, Petersen
-Conversations with Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s contacts with Gray, Petersen
-Conversations with Ehrlichman, Petersen, Gray
-Petersen
-Conversation with President concerning suspicions
-Suspicions
-Ehrlichman’s call concerning Stans’s subpoena
-Dean
-Dean
-Petersen’s view
-Purpose of meetings with Petersen
-Gray
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Forthcoming testimony
-Contacts with President
-FBI investigation
-Destruction of documents
-Effect
-Richard G. Kleindienst, Ehrlichman, President
-Knowledge of contents
-Ehrlichman
-Fred F. Fielding
-Dean
-Statements to Ehrlichman, Petersen and Earl J. Silbert
-Fielding’s statement
-Contents
-Ehrlichman’s alleged orders
-Dean
-Documents at Camp David
-Secretary
-Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy
-Memoranda from files
-Political intelligence from George McGovern’s secret
service guard
-Memoranda of conversations [memcons]
-Mitchell, Magruder, Haldeman meeting
-Meeting with Quigley [first name unknown]
-Meetings with President
-Motives
-Motives
-Effect of James McCord’s letter
-Call from Ziegler
-Conversations with President
-President’s response
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP] involvement
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson, Dean
-CRP staff involvement
-CRP staff involvement
-Clark MacGregor
-Magruder
-12-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Dean’s comments concerning testimony
-Dean
-Ervin Committee testimony
-Ervin Committee interview, June 14, 1973
-Conversations with President concerning civil cases
-Judge Richey
-Richey’s response
-Conversation with President concerning civil cases
-Possible date
-Haldeman’s notes
-Richey
-Possible date
-Richey
-Motives
-Lawyers goals
-Dash’s views
-Conversation with Garment
-Forthcoming cross-examination
-Thompson, Dash
Buzhardt left at 5:33 pm.
Henry A. Kissinger
-Congressional briefings, June 14, 1973
-Position
-Ministers
-San Clemente
Rose Mary Woods
-Title
-Work
-Review of President’s speeches
Watergate
-Dean
-Haldeman
-Strachan’s possible testimony
-13-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2013)
Conversation No. 446-6 (cont’d)
-Magruder
-Ervin Committee testimony, June 14, 1973
-President’s knowledge
-Press coverage
-Strachan
-Dean
-Huston plan documents
-White House response
-Possible press response
-Dash
National economy
-President’s program
-Response
-Controversy
-Food prices
-Congressional response
-Partisan politics
-Assessment
-William Proxmire
-Reaction to measures in 1971
The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:33 pm and 5:43
pm.
[Conversation No. 446-6B]
[Begin telephone conversation]
Map room
Military aide’s office [?]
Henry A. Kissinger
-President’s request
[End telephone conversation]
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Kissinger
Bryce N. Harlow
-Media response to appointment
George P. Shultz
-Role in administration
-Energy program
-Disappointment
-Trade, Taxes
-Secretary of Treasury
-Stress levels
-Performance
-Trade, economics, international conferences
-William E. Simon
Kissinger talked with the President between 5:43 pm and 5:46 pm.
[Conversation No. 446-6C]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 40-115]
[End telephone conversation]
Leonid I. Brezhnev’s forthcoming visit
-Agenda
-San Clemente
-Agreements
-Nuclear
-Location of announcements
-White House
-San Clemente
-Communique agreements
-Location
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-Brezhnev’s speech
-Possible dates
-Agreements
-Possible dates
-Location
-East Room of White House
-Ziegler’s thoughts
-Brezhnev’s address to Congress
-Televised speech
-Agreements
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:46 and 5:48
p.m.
[Conversation No. 446-6D]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 40-116]
[End telephone conversation]
Brezhnev’s head of state visit
-Agenda
-Trip to San Clemente
-Discussions with Brezhnev
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger between 5:48 pm and 5:53 pm.
[Conversation No. 446-6E]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 40-117]
Brezhnev’s speech
-Timing
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-Location
-Ziegler’s opinion
[End telephone conversation]
Brezhnev’s head of state visit
-Speech
-Delivery
-Taping
-Camp David
-Media coverage
-Accommodations
-Camp David
-Dinner
-Restaurant
-Schedule
-Camp David
-Return
-“Spirit of San Clemente”
-“Spirit of Casa Pacifica”
Watergate
-Buzhardt
-Possible future revelations
-White House response
-Senate Select Committee
-Strachan cross-examination
President’s forthcoming speech at Pekin, Illinois
-Audience
-Content
-Foreign policy
-Reception of crowd
-National economy
-Technique
-Complexity of the speech
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Ziegler left at 5:58 pm.