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- President Richard M. Nixon
- Alexander M. Haig
- Manolo Sanchez
June 12, 1973
Conversation No. 937-19
Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 11:57 am - 12:36 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Personnel appointments and management
-President’s previous meeting with Roy L. Ash
-Budget
-30-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)
-National economy
-William E. Simon’s view
-Camp David
-National economy
-President’s forthcoming meeting
-Arthur F. Burns’s attendance
-George P. Shultz
-Gold
-Monetary policy
-Independence
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Telephone calls to Haig
-Possible meeting with the President
-Speech
-Role in administration
-Reorganizing
-Energy
-President’s schedule
-Economy
-Agnew
-Appreciation for speech
-Possible meeting
-Economy meetings
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Role on White House staff
-Timing of announcement
-Haig’s forthcoming telephone call to Agnew
-Agnew
-President’s schedule
-Views on economy
-Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-President’s schedule
-Possible meeting
-Appreciation for speech
-Forthcoming speech on the economy
-Need for President
-President’s schedule
-31-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)
Vietnam negotiations
-President’s previous conversation with Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-Henry A. Kissinger
-South Vietnam’s position
-Election
-Zones of control
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US casualties
-President’s role
-Cambodia
Congressional relations
-President’s possible conflicts
-Vietnam settlement
-Budget
-Possible vetoes
-Ash’s [?] strategy
-Views of Harlow and William E. Timmons
-Override
-President’s unwillingness to sign bills
-Taxation
-Education
National economy
-Forthcoming speech
-Administration spokesmen
-President’s conversation with Ash
-John B. Connally
-Congress members
-Pierre Rinfret
-Public relations [PR]
-President’s role
-Connally
-President’s possible radio talks
-Timing for weekend newspapers
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-32-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)
-Topics
-Economic “fireside chats”
-Frequency
-Brevity
-Efficacy
-Substance
-Compared to campaigning
-Portrayal and perception of President’s activities
-Location
-San Clemente, Camp David
-Shultz, Herbert Stein
-Cabinet
Watergate
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Conversations with Haig
-Views concerning Clarence M. Kelley
-Leaks
-Washington Post
-Haig’s conversation with Jonathan Moore
-Personnel appointments and management
-Appointment of Kelley and Melvin R. Laird
-President’s efforts
-Haig’s leak to Washington Star
-Richardson and William Ruckelshaus
-Laird
-Role on White House staff
-Effort of Haig, President, Harlow, and J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Possible cross-examination
-Buzhardt
-June 15, 1973 Ervin Committee interview
-Harlow
-Dean’s testimony
-Fred D. Thompson
-33-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)
-1972 campaign
-Democrats’ finances
-Possible General Accounting Office [GAO] investigation
Vietnam and Cambodia
-President’s possible veto of Congressional action
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:57 am.
Watergate
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo’s return telephone call
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:36 pm.
Watergate
-Rebozo
-Kenneth Gemmill [Philadelphia lawyer]
-Background
-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s and John F. Kennedy’s administrations
-Spring Valley
-Advice concerning Howard Hughes contribution
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], Internal Revenue Service
[IRS]
-Handling of Hughes contribution
-Possible leak to press
-Motive
-Haig’s conversation with an unknown man
-Dean
-John D. Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Ehrlichman
-Statements concerning the President
-Possible allegations concerning President
-Testimony
-Buzhardt’s efforts
-34-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)
-Ehrlichman
-Conversations with Dean
-Dean’s meeting with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters concerning Central
Intelligence Agency [CIA] payroll
-Conversations with President
-Clemency offer
-Forthcoming testimony
-Mitchell
-Contacts with President
-Role
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Charles W. Colson
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Conversations
-President, Rebozo
-San Clemente house
-President’s work habits
-Ehrlichman
-Buzhardt
-White House response
-National economy
-Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Dean
-March 21, 1973 conversation with President
-Haldeman’s forthcoming testimony
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-White House response
-Buzhardt
-Cross-examination
-Buzhardt’s influence
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee interview
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-White House response
-Patrick J. Buchanan, Ronald L. Ziegler, Buzhardt
-Cross-examination
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Cross-examination
-35-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)
-March 21, 1973 conversation with President
-President’s response to revelations
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Cross-examination
-Conversations with President, Henry E. Petersen, Ehrlichman
-Content
-CIA payroll and Walters
-Payment
-Clemency
-Ehrlichman
-Petersen
-President’s culpability
-President’s culpability
-Popular opinion
-Connally’s view
-Credibility on Mitchell, Haldeman
-News magazines’ stories
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, President
-Dean’s forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Ellsberg break-in
-Leaks
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Dean
-Immunity
-Dean conversations
-President
-March 1973
-Prosecutors
-April 1973
-President’s responsibility, Dean’s responsibility
-Dean’s immunity
-Threat of blackmail by Hunt’s attorney
-Ellsberg break-in
-Hunt
-Dean
-Conversation with President concerning blackmail threats
-White House response
-36-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)
Haig left at 12:36 pm.
Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 11:57 am - 12:36 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Personnel appointments and management
-President’s previous meeting with Roy L. Ash
-Budget
-30-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)
-National economy
-William E. Simon’s view
-Camp David
-National economy
-President’s forthcoming meeting
-Arthur F. Burns’s attendance
-George P. Shultz
-Gold
-Monetary policy
-Independence
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Telephone calls to Haig
-Possible meeting with the President
-Speech
-Role in administration
-Reorganizing
-Energy
-President’s schedule
-Economy
-Agnew
-Appreciation for speech
-Possible meeting
-Economy meetings
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Role on White House staff
-Timing of announcement
-Haig’s forthcoming telephone call to Agnew
-Agnew
-President’s schedule
-Views on economy
-Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-President’s schedule
-Possible meeting
-Appreciation for speech
-Forthcoming speech on the economy
-Need for President
-President’s schedule
-31-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)
Vietnam negotiations
-President’s previous conversation with Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-Henry A. Kissinger
-South Vietnam’s position
-Election
-Zones of control
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US casualties
-President’s role
-Cambodia
Congressional relations
-President’s possible conflicts
-Vietnam settlement
-Budget
-Possible vetoes
-Ash’s [?] strategy
-Views of Harlow and William E. Timmons
-Override
-President’s unwillingness to sign bills
-Taxation
-Education
National economy
-Forthcoming speech
-Administration spokesmen
-President’s conversation with Ash
-John B. Connally
-Congress members
-Pierre Rinfret
-Public relations [PR]
-President’s role
-Connally
-President’s possible radio talks
-Timing for weekend newspapers
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-32-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)
-Topics
-Economic “fireside chats”
-Frequency
-Brevity
-Efficacy
-Substance
-Compared to campaigning
-Portrayal and perception of President’s activities
-Location
-San Clemente, Camp David
-Shultz, Herbert Stein
-Cabinet
Watergate
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Conversations with Haig
-Views concerning Clarence M. Kelley
-Leaks
-Washington Post
-Haig’s conversation with Jonathan Moore
-Personnel appointments and management
-Appointment of Kelley and Melvin R. Laird
-President’s efforts
-Haig’s leak to Washington Star
-Richardson and William Ruckelshaus
-Laird
-Role on White House staff
-Effort of Haig, President, Harlow, and J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Possible cross-examination
-Buzhardt
-June 15, 1973 Ervin Committee interview
-Harlow
-Dean’s testimony
-Fred D. Thompson
-33-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)
-1972 campaign
-Democrats’ finances
-Possible General Accounting Office [GAO] investigation
Vietnam and Cambodia
-President’s possible veto of Congressional action
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:57 am.
Watergate
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo’s return telephone call
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:36 pm.
Watergate
-Rebozo
-Kenneth Gemmill [Philadelphia lawyer]
-Background
-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s and John F. Kennedy’s administrations
-Spring Valley
-Advice concerning Howard Hughes contribution
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], Internal Revenue Service
[IRS]
-Handling of Hughes contribution
-Possible leak to press
-Motive
-Haig’s conversation with an unknown man
-Dean
-John D. Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Ehrlichman
-Statements concerning the President
-Possible allegations concerning President
-Testimony
-Buzhardt’s efforts
-34-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)
-Ehrlichman
-Conversations with Dean
-Dean’s meeting with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters concerning Central
Intelligence Agency [CIA] payroll
-Conversations with President
-Clemency offer
-Forthcoming testimony
-Mitchell
-Contacts with President
-Role
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Charles W. Colson
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Conversations
-President, Rebozo
-San Clemente house
-President’s work habits
-Ehrlichman
-Buzhardt
-White House response
-National economy
-Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Dean
-March 21, 1973 conversation with President
-Haldeman’s forthcoming testimony
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-White House response
-Buzhardt
-Cross-examination
-Buzhardt’s influence
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee interview
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-White House response
-Patrick J. Buchanan, Ronald L. Ziegler, Buzhardt
-Cross-examination
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Cross-examination
-35-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)
-March 21, 1973 conversation with President
-President’s response to revelations
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Cross-examination
-Conversations with President, Henry E. Petersen, Ehrlichman
-Content
-CIA payroll and Walters
-Payment
-Clemency
-Ehrlichman
-Petersen
-President’s culpability
-President’s culpability
-Popular opinion
-Connally’s view
-Credibility on Mitchell, Haldeman
-News magazines’ stories
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, President
-Dean’s forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Ellsberg break-in
-Leaks
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Dean
-Immunity
-Dean conversations
-President
-March 1973
-Prosecutors
-April 1973
-President’s responsibility, Dean’s responsibility
-Dean’s immunity
-Threat of blackmail by Hunt’s attorney
-Ellsberg break-in
-Hunt
-Dean
-Conversation with President concerning blackmail threats
-White House response
-36-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-19 (cont’d)
Haig left at 12:36 pm.