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929-005a

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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
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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
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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

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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
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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
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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

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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

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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
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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.
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