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- President Richard M. Nixon
- Alexander M. Haig
- Ronald L. Ziegler
- UNKNOWN
- Henry A. Kissinger
- Spiro T. Agnew
June 14, 1973
Conversation No. 940-2
Date: June 14, 1973
Time: 9:30 am - 10:52 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
Negotiations
-Kissinger’s view
-Military situation in South Vietnam
-South Vietnam’s performance
-North Vietnam
-Training
-Kissinger
-Briefings
-Cambodia
-Bombing
-Duration
-Possible cease-fire
-Kissinger’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Congressional action
-House of Representatives, Senate
-September 1973
-Kissinger
Ronald L. Ziegler and an unknown man entered at 9:31 am.
President’s schedule
-Clothing [?]
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:34 am.
President’s address to nation announcing price control measures, June 13, 1973
-Response
-News summary
-Democrats, business, Republicans, networks
-Public opinion
-Delivery
-Importance of beginning and end
-George P. Shultz
-Price freeze
-Calls to President
-Speechwriters
-President’s writing
-Washington Post
-Draft, war
-Labor response
-Charles W. Colson
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons’s call to President
-News summary
Kissinger entered at 9:34 am.
Vietnam negotiations
-President’s telegrams to Kissinger, Charles Whitehouse
-Communique
-Kissinger’s efforts
-Difficulty
-President’s recent conversation with Haig
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-President’s messages to Nguyen Van Thieu
-Tone
-Brent G. Scowcroft’s call to Thieu
-President’s conversation with Gen. Tran Kim Phuong
-Congressional leaders
-South Vietnamese mood
Kissinger’s forthcoming briefings
-Tone
-President’s activities
-Year of Europe
-Middle East
-Vietnam negotiations
-Year of Europe
-Forthcoming summit
-Duration
-Year of Europe
-Vietnam negotiations
-Communique
-Recent staff meeting
-Year of Europe
-Vietnam
-US leadership in world, peace
-President’s meetings with Georges J. R. Pompidou, Edward R. G. Heath, Willy
Brandt
-Pompidou
-Gen. Charles A. J. M. De Gaulle
-President’s possible trip to Europe
-Year of Europe
-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s Forthcoming Visit
-Compared to 1972 meeting
-Cancellation
-Dialog
-President’s meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko in October 1972
-Tone
-President’s address to nation announcing price control measures
-Watergate
-Wiretapping
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Conduct of foreign policy
-Peace
-1971, 1972
-Compared to the Battle of the Bulge
-Follow-through
-Brezhnev
-Kissinger’s meeting with People’s Republic of China [PRC] Foreign Minister [Ji
Pengfei] in Paris, June 13, 1973
-Possible lunch with J. William Fulbright, Hugh Scott
-Kissinger
Kissinger’s meeting with PRC Foreign Minister in Paris
[Tape recording system malfunction: 36 seconds]
US-PRC relations
-Possible visit to San Clemente [by Huang Zhen]
-Nationalist ambassador
-Washington, DC
-Century Plaza Hotel
Mao Tse-tung and Chiang Ching
-Invitation to President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s schedule
-May, July 1973
Brezhnev’s forthcoming visit
-San Clemente visit
-President’s airplane visit
-President’s conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Guest rooms
-Gromyko
Vietnam negotiations
-Forthcoming briefings
-Tone
-Response
-Europe
Brezhnev’s forthcoming visit
-President’s conversation with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Briefings on agreements
-President’s trip to Soviet Union, 1972
-News summaries
-William P. Rogers, Kissinger, President
-Agreements during President’s 1972 trip to Soviet Union
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT], communique
-Agreements
-Number
-SALT, principles [on prevention of nuclear war], communique
-Briefings
-Rogers, William H. Sullivan, Martin J. Hillenbrand
-Camp David
-Rogers and Gromyko’s schedule
-Dobrynin’s view
-Sequoia trip
-Security
-Dobrynin’s views
-Dinner
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Fulbright
-Sequoia trip
-Agenda
-Briefings on agreements
-California
-Number
-US-Soviet Agreement on Prevention of Nuclear War
-California
-Camp David
-Casa Pacifica
-Peaceful uses of nuclear energy, SALT communique
-Cancellation
-Security
-Brezhnev
-Scowcroft’s message
-Politics
-San Clemente
-Doctor
-Schedule
-Possible demonstrators
-Quakers
Kissinger’s schedule
-Vacation
-Sophia Loren
-Paris
Kissinger left at 9:51 am.
President’s address to nation announcing price control measures
-Response
-Press relations
-News summary
-Controversy
-Phase I, Vietnam, SALT
-Beginning and end
-President’s leadership
-Status quo
-Consumers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Gasoline and food prices
-“Rollback”
-Public relations
-Confusion
-Raw agricultural products
President’s schedule
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Announcement
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Harlow
-Lawyers
-William W. Scranton
-George Putnam
-Photograph opportunity
-Scranton
White House staff
-Council to President
-Leonard Garment
-J. Fred Buzhardt
-Compared to Garment
-Garment
-Possible ambassadorship
-Personality
-John W. Dean, III
-Buzhardt
-Harlow
-Garment
-Role
-Legal work
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-President’s conversation with William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Maurice Stans’s testimony
-Edward J. Gurney
-Polls
-Television [TV] coverage
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Senators
-Samuel J. Ervin
-Possible opponents in election
-President’s conversation with Graham
-Dean’s interview, June 15, 1973
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-White House response
-Buzhardt, Charles A. Wright
-Possible allegations against President
-Dean
-White House response
-News summary coverage
-Background
-Elliot L. Richardson
-News summary coverage
President’s schedule
-TV speeches
-Frequency
President’s speeches
-Beginning and end
-Public relations
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Speechwriters
-Substance
-President’s role
-Politics
-President’s address to nation announcing price control measures
-Brezhnev
-Draft
-“Best-fed,” “best-clothed”
-First draft
-Price
-Demagoguery
-Gas prices, inflation, food prices, labor
-President’s address to nation announcing price control measures
-Press relations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
White House staff
-Harlow
-Timing of announcement
National economy
-TV appearance of Earl L. Butz and James W. McLane
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]’s Today Show
-Congressional relations
-William E. Timmons’s forthcoming efforts
-Ticklers
-Future speeches
Ziegler left at 10:03 am.
Congressional relations
Cabinet
President’s schedule
-Forthcoming conversation with Agnew
-Agnew’s speech to National Association of Attorneys General, St. Louis,
MO, June 11, 1973
-Role in administration
-Melvin R. Laird
-Harlow
-Presidency
-Speeches
-Congressional relations
-Farm legislation
-Economy
-Quadriad
President’s address to nation announcing price control measures
-Timing
-Tone
Agnew entered at 10:05 am.
President’s address to nation announcing price control measures
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Response
-Agnew’s schedule
Agnew’s speech in St. Louis
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible attacks by witnesses
-Howard Hughes
-Buzhardt
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. Gurney
-Audience response
-TV
-Stans and Ervin, June 13, 1973
-White House response
-Victor Lasky
-1972 voting
-George McGovern
-Nixon
Investigation of Agnew
-Republican Party
-George Beall
-Staff
-Democrats
-[Barney Skolnik]
-Edmund S. Muskie supporter
-Muskie
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Agnew’s administrative officer [William E. Fornoff]
-[N. Dale Anderson]
-Kick-backs
-Indictment
-Relations with Agnew
-Transactions
-Baltimore County
-Engineers, architects
-[Fornoff]
-Agnew’s role
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Compared to New York State
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Compared to California
-President’s conversation with Ronald W. Reagan
-Political contributions by highway and other contractors
-Grand Jury
-Income Tax investigation
-Watergate
-Scale
-1972 election
-Celebrity night for Agnew
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope, Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
-Congressional candidates committee
-Maryland
-District of Columbia
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Loan from Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Indictment of fund-raiser [Blagdon H. Wharton]
-Records falsification
-Anne Arundel County, Maryland
-1972 election
-Press coverage
-Agnew
-Agnew’s contacts
-Background
-Haig
-Harlow
-Laird
-White House response
-Beall
-Baltimore County
-Agnew’s possible role
-Inability to interfere
Watergate
-Possible accusations against Agnew
-Compared to allegations concerning President and Watergate
-Cover-up
-Fund for the burglars
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-San Clemente home
-Denials
-Strategy
-Democrats
-Beall
-Investigation of Agnew’s successor [Anderson]
-[Fornoff]
-Plea bargaining and guilty plea
-Implication of engineers
-Immunity
-President’s knowledge of criminal law
Watergate
-Dean
-Immunity
-New York Times article
-Meetings with President
-Removal of classified documents from the White House
Investigation in Baltimore County, Maryland
-White House response
-Special prosecutor
-Lack of necessity
-Possible accusations
-Agnew
-[Mandel]
-Anne Arundel County executive
-Mayor of Baltimore
-Agnew
-Kick-back
-Federal judge
-Engineer [Matz]
-Plea bargaining
-Background
-Political contributions
-Plea bargaining
-Fornoff
-Guilty plea
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Engineers [Matz et al.]
-Effects on Maryland politics
-Governor [Marvin Mendel]
-J. Glenn Beall, Jr.
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Lowell Weicker’s possible questioning of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Origin of $350,000
-Herbert Kalmbach
-Weicker’s campaign contributions
Investigation of Agnew
-George Beall
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] investigators
-Glenn Beall
-Campaign contributions
-1970 campaign
-Colson
-Handling of investigation
-Glenn Beall, George Beall
-Possible indictment
-Skolnik
-Muskie supporter
-Administration enemies
-Bureaucracy
Watergate
-Popular opinion
-Ervin compared to President
-Agnew’s speech in St. Louis
-Response
-John N. Mitchell
-Possible prison term
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell’s health
-New Jersey, Maryland
-Possible investigation of Democrats
-Files
-Murray M. Chotiner
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Steve Sachs
Investigation of Agnew
-President’s and Haig’s role
-Buzhardt
-Agnew’s conversations
-Haldeman
-Colson
-Possible letter
-Advisability
-Jud Best
-David Shapiro
-Possible legal relationship with Agnew
-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s possible testimony concerning Colson
-Press coverage
Watergate
-Magruder’s possible testimony
-Colson
-Lawrence O’Brien
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Haldeman
-Mitchell
-Dean
-Dean’s possible testimony
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-President
-Meetings with President
Investigation of Agnew
-Agnew’s legal relationship with Colson and Best
Watergate
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Transportation Department
-Firing by Claude S. Brinegar
-Ken Rietz
-Firing by George H. W. Bush
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Activities
-San Diego
-Demonstrations
Investigation of Agnew
-Agnew’s legal relationship with Colson and Best
-Colson as witness
-[Metz]
-Plea-bargaining
-Effect on other accused’s reputation
Watergate
-President’s opponents’ goal
-Carl B. Albert
-President’s resignation or impeachment
-1972 election
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Energy
-Inadvisability
-Workload
-Salesmanship
-Economic, energy, and foreign policies
President’s address to nation addressing price control measures
-Importance of beginning and end
-Telephone calls
-Vietnam, draft, Brezhnev visit
-President’s role
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Republican Party leaders
-Influence-makers
-Chicago clubs, New York City clubs
-Press
-Editors, publishers
-Labor
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
National economy
-Wages
-Lack of freeze
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Compared to President’s role with Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Eisenhower’s health
-Meetings
-Compared to President’s
-Cabinet, National Security Council [NSC]
-Meeting with President, May 2, 1973
-Quadriad meetings
-Specialization
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Shultz
-Domestic Council
-Cabinet
-Rogers, Laird, Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Soybeans
-France
President’s address to nation addressing price control measures
-Consumers
-State Department, NSC staff
-Possible resignations
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Quadriad
-Foreign policy
-Avoiding appearance of “Froth”
-Press reports of Africa trip
Press relations
-President’s experience
-Watergate compared to Hiss case
-Herbert L. Block
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Caracas
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Asia
-Kissinger
-Possible trips
-Confidentiality
-PRC
-Mansfield, Congress
-August 1973
-Kissinger
-Timing
-September, October 1973
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Negotiations
-President’s trips under Eisenhower
-Reporting
-East Europe
-Poland, Hungary, Romania, Italy, Greece
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Past trips
-Italy, Iran, Greece, Spain
-Latin America
-Africa
-Chad
-Confidentiality
-PRC, USSR, Eastern Europe
-Congressional relations
-Alaska pipeline
-Export controls
-Trade bill
-Meat surcharge
-Farm legislation
-Inflation
-Republicans
-Government spending
-Attacks on Ervin Committee
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Attacks on Ervin Committee
-Possible jail terms
-Mitchell, Stans
-Agnew’s speech
-Hugh Scott’s statements
-Wiretapping, plumbers
-Agnew’s possible response
-President’s comments to POWs
-Agnew’s possible statements
-Scott’s statement
-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
-Newsmen, civil rights leaders, politicians
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
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Agnew’s role in administration
-Forthcoming conversation with Harlow
-Trips
-Congressional relations
-Liberals
Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Record of support for President
-Comments concerning Maryland State Republican Chairman [Alexander
Lankler]
-Alleged disloyalty
-Congressional relations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
Agnew
-Possible guilt
Watergate
-Mitchell
-Possible conversation with President
Agnew
-Investigation
Harlow
-Role on White House staff
-Politics
-Bush
Agnew
-Speeches
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Harlow
Agnew left at 10:49 am.
President’s schedule
-Scranton
Agnew
-Possible investigation
-Fear
-Administration support
-Possible trip to PRC
-Harlow
-Dignity
Watergate
-Dean
-President’s activities
-Richardson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
Cabinet
-Brinegar
-Performance
-Future
President’s schedule
-Scranton
Haig left at 10:52 am.
Date: June 14, 1973
Time: 9:30 am - 10:52 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
Negotiations
-Kissinger’s view
-Military situation in South Vietnam
-South Vietnam’s performance
-North Vietnam
-Training
-Kissinger
-Briefings
-Cambodia
-Bombing
-Duration
-Possible cease-fire
-Kissinger’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Congressional action
-House of Representatives, Senate
-September 1973
-Kissinger
Ronald L. Ziegler and an unknown man entered at 9:31 am.
President’s schedule
-Clothing [?]
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:34 am.
President’s address to nation announcing price control measures, June 13, 1973
-Response
-News summary
-Democrats, business, Republicans, networks
-Public opinion
-Delivery
-Importance of beginning and end
-George P. Shultz
-Price freeze
-Calls to President
-Speechwriters
-President’s writing
-Washington Post
-Draft, war
-Labor response
-Charles W. Colson
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons’s call to President
-News summary
Kissinger entered at 9:34 am.
Vietnam negotiations
-President’s telegrams to Kissinger, Charles Whitehouse
-Communique
-Kissinger’s efforts
-Difficulty
-President’s recent conversation with Haig
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-President’s messages to Nguyen Van Thieu
-Tone
-Brent G. Scowcroft’s call to Thieu
-President’s conversation with Gen. Tran Kim Phuong
-Congressional leaders
-South Vietnamese mood
Kissinger’s forthcoming briefings
-Tone
-President’s activities
-Year of Europe
-Middle East
-Vietnam negotiations
-Year of Europe
-Forthcoming summit
-Duration
-Year of Europe
-Vietnam negotiations
-Communique
-Recent staff meeting
-Year of Europe
-Vietnam
-US leadership in world, peace
-President’s meetings with Georges J. R. Pompidou, Edward R. G. Heath, Willy
Brandt
-Pompidou
-Gen. Charles A. J. M. De Gaulle
-President’s possible trip to Europe
-Year of Europe
-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s Forthcoming Visit
-Compared to 1972 meeting
-Cancellation
-Dialog
-President’s meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko in October 1972
-Tone
-President’s address to nation announcing price control measures
-Watergate
-Wiretapping
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Conduct of foreign policy
-Peace
-1971, 1972
-Compared to the Battle of the Bulge
-Follow-through
-Brezhnev
-Kissinger’s meeting with People’s Republic of China [PRC] Foreign Minister [Ji
Pengfei] in Paris, June 13, 1973
-Possible lunch with J. William Fulbright, Hugh Scott
-Kissinger
Kissinger’s meeting with PRC Foreign Minister in Paris
[Tape recording system malfunction: 36 seconds]
US-PRC relations
-Possible visit to San Clemente [by Huang Zhen]
-Nationalist ambassador
-Washington, DC
-Century Plaza Hotel
Mao Tse-tung and Chiang Ching
-Invitation to President
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[Duration: 13 s ]
PRC
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s schedule
-May, July 1973
Brezhnev’s forthcoming visit
-San Clemente visit
-President’s airplane visit
-President’s conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Guest rooms
-Gromyko
Vietnam negotiations
-Forthcoming briefings
-Tone
-Response
-Europe
Brezhnev’s forthcoming visit
-President’s conversation with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Briefings on agreements
-President’s trip to Soviet Union, 1972
-News summaries
-William P. Rogers, Kissinger, President
-Agreements during President’s 1972 trip to Soviet Union
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT], communique
-Agreements
-Number
-SALT, principles [on prevention of nuclear war], communique
-Briefings
-Rogers, William H. Sullivan, Martin J. Hillenbrand
-Camp David
-Rogers and Gromyko’s schedule
-Dobrynin’s view
-Sequoia trip
-Security
-Dobrynin’s views
-Dinner
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Fulbright
-Sequoia trip
-Agenda
-Briefings on agreements
-California
-Number
-US-Soviet Agreement on Prevention of Nuclear War
-California
-Camp David
-Casa Pacifica
-Peaceful uses of nuclear energy, SALT communique
-Cancellation
-Security
-Brezhnev
-Scowcroft’s message
-Politics
-San Clemente
-Doctor
-Schedule
-Possible demonstrators
-Quakers
Kissinger’s schedule
-Vacation
-Sophia Loren
-Paris
Kissinger left at 9:51 am.
President’s address to nation announcing price control measures
-Response
-Press relations
-News summary
-Controversy
-Phase I, Vietnam, SALT
-Beginning and end
-President’s leadership
-Status quo
-Consumers
-7-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Gasoline and food prices
-“Rollback”
-Public relations
-Confusion
-Raw agricultural products
President’s schedule
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Announcement
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Harlow
-Lawyers
-William W. Scranton
-George Putnam
-Photograph opportunity
-Scranton
White House staff
-Council to President
-Leonard Garment
-J. Fred Buzhardt
-Compared to Garment
-Garment
-Possible ambassadorship
-Personality
-John W. Dean, III
-Buzhardt
-Harlow
-Garment
-Role
-Legal work
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-President’s conversation with William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Maurice Stans’s testimony
-Edward J. Gurney
-Polls
-Television [TV] coverage
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Senators
-Samuel J. Ervin
-Possible opponents in election
-President’s conversation with Graham
-Dean’s interview, June 15, 1973
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-White House response
-Buzhardt, Charles A. Wright
-Possible allegations against President
-Dean
-White House response
-News summary coverage
-Background
-Elliot L. Richardson
-News summary coverage
President’s schedule
-TV speeches
-Frequency
President’s speeches
-Beginning and end
-Public relations
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Speechwriters
-Substance
-President’s role
-Politics
-President’s address to nation announcing price control measures
-Brezhnev
-Draft
-“Best-fed,” “best-clothed”
-First draft
-Price
-Demagoguery
-Gas prices, inflation, food prices, labor
-President’s address to nation announcing price control measures
-Press relations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
White House staff
-Harlow
-Timing of announcement
National economy
-TV appearance of Earl L. Butz and James W. McLane
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]’s Today Show
-Congressional relations
-William E. Timmons’s forthcoming efforts
-Ticklers
-Future speeches
Ziegler left at 10:03 am.
Congressional relations
Cabinet
President’s schedule
-Forthcoming conversation with Agnew
-Agnew’s speech to National Association of Attorneys General, St. Louis,
MO, June 11, 1973
-Role in administration
-Melvin R. Laird
-Harlow
-Presidency
-Speeches
-Congressional relations
-Farm legislation
-Economy
-Quadriad
President’s address to nation announcing price control measures
-Timing
-Tone
Agnew entered at 10:05 am.
President’s address to nation announcing price control measures
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Response
-Agnew’s schedule
Agnew’s speech in St. Louis
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible attacks by witnesses
-Howard Hughes
-Buzhardt
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. Gurney
-Audience response
-TV
-Stans and Ervin, June 13, 1973
-White House response
-Victor Lasky
-1972 voting
-George McGovern
-Nixon
Investigation of Agnew
-Republican Party
-George Beall
-Staff
-Democrats
-[Barney Skolnik]
-Edmund S. Muskie supporter
-Muskie
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Agnew’s administrative officer [William E. Fornoff]
-[N. Dale Anderson]
-Kick-backs
-Indictment
-Relations with Agnew
-Transactions
-Baltimore County
-Engineers, architects
-[Fornoff]
-Agnew’s role
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Compared to New York State
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Compared to California
-President’s conversation with Ronald W. Reagan
-Political contributions by highway and other contractors
-Grand Jury
-Income Tax investigation
-Watergate
-Scale
-1972 election
-Celebrity night for Agnew
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope, Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
-Congressional candidates committee
-Maryland
-District of Columbia
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Loan from Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Indictment of fund-raiser [Blagdon H. Wharton]
-Records falsification
-Anne Arundel County, Maryland
-1972 election
-Press coverage
-Agnew
-Agnew’s contacts
-Background
-Haig
-Harlow
-Laird
-White House response
-Beall
-Baltimore County
-Agnew’s possible role
-Inability to interfere
Watergate
-Possible accusations against Agnew
-Compared to allegations concerning President and Watergate
-Cover-up
-Fund for the burglars
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-San Clemente home
-Denials
-Strategy
-Democrats
-Beall
-Investigation of Agnew’s successor [Anderson]
-[Fornoff]
-Plea bargaining and guilty plea
-Implication of engineers
-Immunity
-President’s knowledge of criminal law
Watergate
-Dean
-Immunity
-New York Times article
-Meetings with President
-Removal of classified documents from the White House
Investigation in Baltimore County, Maryland
-White House response
-Special prosecutor
-Lack of necessity
-Possible accusations
-Agnew
-[Mandel]
-Anne Arundel County executive
-Mayor of Baltimore
-Agnew
-Kick-back
-Federal judge
-Engineer [Matz]
-Plea bargaining
-Background
-Political contributions
-Plea bargaining
-Fornoff
-Guilty plea
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Engineers [Matz et al.]
-Effects on Maryland politics
-Governor [Marvin Mendel]
-J. Glenn Beall, Jr.
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Lowell Weicker’s possible questioning of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Origin of $350,000
-Herbert Kalmbach
-Weicker’s campaign contributions
Investigation of Agnew
-George Beall
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] investigators
-Glenn Beall
-Campaign contributions
-1970 campaign
-Colson
-Handling of investigation
-Glenn Beall, George Beall
-Possible indictment
-Skolnik
-Muskie supporter
-Administration enemies
-Bureaucracy
Watergate
-Popular opinion
-Ervin compared to President
-Agnew’s speech in St. Louis
-Response
-John N. Mitchell
-Possible prison term
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell’s health
-New Jersey, Maryland
-Possible investigation of Democrats
-Files
-Murray M. Chotiner
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Steve Sachs
Investigation of Agnew
-President’s and Haig’s role
-Buzhardt
-Agnew’s conversations
-Haldeman
-Colson
-Possible letter
-Advisability
-Jud Best
-David Shapiro
-Possible legal relationship with Agnew
-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s possible testimony concerning Colson
-Press coverage
Watergate
-Magruder’s possible testimony
-Colson
-Lawrence O’Brien
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Haldeman
-Mitchell
-Dean
-Dean’s possible testimony
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-President
-Meetings with President
Investigation of Agnew
-Agnew’s legal relationship with Colson and Best
Watergate
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Transportation Department
-Firing by Claude S. Brinegar
-Ken Rietz
-Firing by George H. W. Bush
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Activities
-San Diego
-Demonstrations
Investigation of Agnew
-Agnew’s legal relationship with Colson and Best
-Colson as witness
-[Metz]
-Plea-bargaining
-Effect on other accused’s reputation
Watergate
-President’s opponents’ goal
-Carl B. Albert
-President’s resignation or impeachment
-1972 election
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Energy
-Inadvisability
-Workload
-Salesmanship
-Economic, energy, and foreign policies
President’s address to nation addressing price control measures
-Importance of beginning and end
-Telephone calls
-Vietnam, draft, Brezhnev visit
-President’s role
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Republican Party leaders
-Influence-makers
-Chicago clubs, New York City clubs
-Press
-Editors, publishers
-Labor
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
National economy
-Wages
-Lack of freeze
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Compared to President’s role with Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Eisenhower’s health
-Meetings
-Compared to President’s
-Cabinet, National Security Council [NSC]
-Meeting with President, May 2, 1973
-Quadriad meetings
-Specialization
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Shultz
-Domestic Council
-Cabinet
-Rogers, Laird, Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Soybeans
-France
President’s address to nation addressing price control measures
-Consumers
-State Department, NSC staff
-Possible resignations
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Quadriad
-Foreign policy
-Avoiding appearance of “Froth”
-Press reports of Africa trip
Press relations
-President’s experience
-Watergate compared to Hiss case
-Herbert L. Block
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
-Caracas
Agnew
-Role in administration
-Asia
-Kissinger
-Possible trips
-Confidentiality
-PRC
-Mansfield, Congress
-August 1973
-Kissinger
-Timing
-September, October 1973
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Negotiations
-President’s trips under Eisenhower
-Reporting
-East Europe
-Poland, Hungary, Romania, Italy, Greece
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Past trips
-Italy, Iran, Greece, Spain
-Latin America
-Africa
-Chad
-Confidentiality
-PRC, USSR, Eastern Europe
-Congressional relations
-Alaska pipeline
-Export controls
-Trade bill
-Meat surcharge
-Farm legislation
-Inflation
-Republicans
-Government spending
-Attacks on Ervin Committee
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Attacks on Ervin Committee
-Possible jail terms
-Mitchell, Stans
-Agnew’s speech
-Hugh Scott’s statements
-Wiretapping, plumbers
-Agnew’s possible response
-President’s comments to POWs
-Agnew’s possible statements
-Scott’s statement
-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
-Newsmen, civil rights leaders, politicians
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
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Agnew’s role in administration
-Forthcoming conversation with Harlow
-Trips
-Congressional relations
-Liberals
Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Record of support for President
-Comments concerning Maryland State Republican Chairman [Alexander
Lankler]
-Alleged disloyalty
-Congressional relations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
Agnew
-Possible guilt
Watergate
-Mitchell
-Possible conversation with President
Agnew
-Investigation
Harlow
-Role on White House staff
-Politics
-Bush
Agnew
-Speeches
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Harlow
Agnew left at 10:49 am.
President’s schedule
-Scranton
Agnew
-Possible investigation
-Fear
-Administration support
-Possible trip to PRC
-Harlow
-Dignity
Watergate
-Dean
-President’s activities
-Richardson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 940-2 (cont’d)
Cabinet
-Brinegar
-Performance
-Future
President’s schedule
-Scranton
Haig left at 10:52 am.