Secret White House Tapes

406–6

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406–6
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • UNKNOWN
January 30, 1973
Conversation No. 406-6

Date: January 30, 1973
Time: 12:35 pm and 12:50 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

President's dictation machine
-Location
-Tape
-Operation
-Microphone

Briefing book

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm.

Briefing book [?]

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 12:50 pm.

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Possible meeting with Haldeman
-Military planning
-Hardline stance
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Timing
-Herman Kahn

Press relations
-Haig
-Herbert G. Klein
-Henry A. Kissinger’s trip to Vietnam
-Press pool
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)

Conversation No. 406-6 (cont’d)

-Wire services
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Prisoners of War [POWs] interviews
-Hospital
-Possible article
-Congress
-Peace efforts by President
-President’s opponents
-Possible author
-William Randolph Hearst, Jr.
-Buchanan
-Distribution
-Favorable editorial
-Buchanan
-Lyndon (“Mort”) Allin
-London Daily Telegraph
-Distribution
-1973 Inauguration
-1972 election
-Victory
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Campaign statements
-President’s opponents
-Possible article on response to Vietnam settlement
-Victor Lasky
-Time
-President's meeting with Jerrold L. Schecter
-Value
-Editors
-Philosophy
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Decision by President
-Gridiron Club dinners
-Schecter
-President's schedule
-Amount of contact with President

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)

Conversation No. 406-6 (cont’d)

Delivery

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:50 pm.

Press relations
-Amount of contact with President
-Value
-Social events
-Press conferences
-Moynihan's plan
-President’s opponents
-Democratic partisans
-John B. Connally
-President’s supporters
-Cynicism
-Optimism

Connally
-President’s schedule
-Plans
-Assistance to President [?]
-Charles W. Colson
-Pressure
-Political future
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s death

President's schedule
-Briefing book

Haldeman left at 12:50 pm.
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406–6

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