39–112

Conversation No. 39-112

Date: June 6, 1973
Time: 3:48 pm - 3:59 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Incoming telephone call

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President.

[See also Conversation No. 443-16]

President’s schedule

-Possible meeting with Tran Kim Phuong

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Conversation No. 39-112 (cont’d)

-Message from Henry A. Kissinger

Watergate
-Joseph R. Califano’s telephone call to Haig
-Wiretaps by previous administrations
-Reaction of Cyrus R. Vance and McGeorge Bundy
-Hugh Scott’s statement
-Basis
-Reaction
-Bundy
-Robert S. McNamara
-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy’s activities

-Press relations

-New York Times

-White House actions


President’s schedule
-Bipartisan Congressional leadership meeting
-Timing

-Kissinger’s message

-Delay

-Kissinger’s briefing

-Dr. James R. Schlesinger’s schedule

-Roy L. Ash

-Defense spending

-Dinner

-John B. Connally


Wage and price freeze
-Haig’s conversation with Connally
-Gas prices
-Consumer interests
-Food prices

-Embargo

-New and expired contracts

-Consultation

-Steel prices

-60-day freeze

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Conversation No. 39-112 (cont’d)

-John T. Dunlop’s conversation with labor and industry leaders
-60-day freeze

-Opposition

-Pierre Rinfret


Connally
-Conversation with Haig
-Role on White House staff
-Work in private sector

-Consultant

-Schedule

-Cabinet meetings

-Attendance

-Dinner

-Sequoia

-Timing

-Bryce N. Harlow

-Haig


Watergate
-Califano’s telephone call to Haig

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

-Wiretaps by previous administrations

-J. Edgar Hoover

-Political activity

-Wiretaps

-Bundy’s conversation with Kissinger

-Possible resignation

-Previous administratiosn

-National Security Council [NSC] involvement
-Names of those tapped, 1961-1964
-Liberals’ criticism
-Compared with Vietnam War

-Popular opinion

-Liberals’ reactions

-Washington Post
-Melvin R. Laird’s appointment
-Haig’s resignation from Army
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Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 39-112 (cont’d)


Haig’s resignation from Army

-Liberals’ opinion

-Civil liberties


Press announcement

-Personnel appointments

-Laird, Haig