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949–12
- President Richard M. Nixon
- Alexander M. Haig
- UNKNOWN
- Ronald L. Ziegler
- Walter R. Tkach
July 12, 1973
Conversation No. 949-12
Date: July 12, 1973
Time: Unknown between 5:09 pm and 8:22 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 17 s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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President’s schedule
-President’s health
-Medical test
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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President’s schedule
-Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital
-Meetings
-Statement on national economy
-Paper
Watergate
-Access to files
-Senators’ possible response
-Carl T. Curtis
-William E. Timmons
-Creativity
-Barry M. Goldwater, Sr.
-White House response
-Decisions on Vietnam War
-Cambodia, December 1972 bombing
-Ervin Committee’s possible demand
-House Un-American Activities Committee [HUAC]’s
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
1953 subpeona to Harry S. Truman
-White House staff response
-Melvin R. Laird
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Samuel Dash
-Possible White House selection
-Richard A. Moore
-Ervin Committee statement
-John W. Dean, III
-President’s knowledge
-Previous attack by Dean
-Meeting with Dean regarding President’s knowledge
-Rose Mary Woods
-Dean
-Conversation with President
-White House staff involvement
-Full disclosure
-Dean’s possible testimony
-Access to files
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s search for precedents
-Archibald Cox
-Possible removal
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s press briefing
-President’s contacts with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Letter ,telephone conversation
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-Ervin’s reaction
-White House response
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Goldwater
-Access to President
-Harlow
-Ziegler
-Edward J. Gurney’s possible meeting with Laird
-Ziegler’s press briefing
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Ervin
-Ziegler’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:09 pm.
Request for Ziegler
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:23 pm.
President’s health
-Track record during Presidency
-President’s schedule
-Announcement
-Forthcoming economic package of Phase IV controls
-Walter Reed Hospital visit
-Radio address
-State Dinner
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Visitors to hospital
Ziegler entered at 5:23 pm.
Watergate
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-Leaks
-Newspaper column
-White House response
-Ervin Committee leaks
-Florida
-Goldwater’s statements
-George H. W. Bush
-Conversation with Harlow
-Possible travel
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-President’s schedule
-Wire service coverage
-Ervin Committee staff
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
-Ervin
-Possible subpeona of President
-Access to files
-Access to files
-President’s July 6, 1973 statement
-Perception of compromise
-President’s schedule
-Ervin
-News leads
-Moore
-Ervin Committee testimony
-Statement
-Cross-examination by Terry F. Lenzner
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Mitchell
-Ervin’s comment to Dash
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-Ervin Committee’s goal
-Leonard Garment
-Meeting with unknown group, July 12, 1973
-President’s schedule
-Ervin
-Timing
-Press coverage
-Location
-Baker
-President’s conversation with William E. Timmons
-Access to files
-Cox
-Buzhardt’s views
-Constitutional issue
-Haig’s view
-Possible removal
-Possible selective release
-Laird, Harlow, Goldwater
-Gerald L. Warren’s press briefing
-Story, July 12, 1973
-42-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
-Rowland Evans, Robert D. Novak
-Gurney
-White House staff reaction
-Laird, Harlow
-Dean, Mitchell, Moore
-Possible allegations against President
-Possible selective release
-Possible allegations
-Dash
-Dean
-September 15, 1972 meeting with President and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ervin
-Treatment of witnesses
-Mitchell
-Conversation with President
-Michael Gravel
-Ervin Committee
-Relations with White House
-Garment
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
President’s schedule
-President’s health
-X-ray
-Viral pneumonia
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 42 s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
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President’s health
-Electrocardiogram
-Publicity
-X-ray
-Naval clinic
-Publicity
-Leaks
-Announcement
-Viral pneumonia
-Public relations [PR]
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:23 pm.
Request for Dr. Walter R. Tkach
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:44 pm.
President’s health
-Announcement
-X-ray
-Results
-Privacy
-Prognosis
-Potential Bethesda Naval Hospital visit
-Privacy of X-ray visit
Tkach entered at 5:44 pm.
President’s schedule
-Naval Medical Clinic visit
-Timing
-44-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
-Security, visibility
*****************************************************************
[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
President’s health
-Diagnosis
-Examination, X-ray
-Extent of condition
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4A
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 32 s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4A
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Public relations [PR]
-President’s health
-Possible hospital visit
-Diagnosis
-Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital compared to Bethesda Naval
Medical Center
-Timing
-Announcement
-Projection of heart attack, stroke
-Press reaction
-Perception of national calamity
-Compared to other presidents
-Stroke, diabetes [?], heart attack
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Announcement
-Tkach
-45-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
-Content
-Statement
-Prognosis
-Symptoms
-Camp David compared to hospital, White House
-Weather
-Announcement
-Wording
-Symptoms
-Viral pneumonia
-Diagnosis
-Lung damage
-Influenza
-Virus
-Fever
-President’s location while sick
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4B
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 24 s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4B
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President’s health
-General wellbeing
-Possible hospital visit
-Attendants
-Military personnel [?]
-Manolo Sanchez
-Immediate departure
-Need for diagnosis
-Announcement
-Symptoms
-46-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
-Undetermined diagnosis
-Escalation of rumors
-Need for private X-ray at naval clinic
-PR
-Hospital visits due to viruses
-Diagnosis
-Appearance of tiredness
-Hospital visit
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Presidency
-President’s opponents’ goals
-Press relations
-President’s obituary
The President left at 5:59 pm.
PR
-Announcement regarding President’s health
-Hospital
-Tkach [?]
-President’s recent appearance
-Tired eyes [?]
-Honesty
-Credibility
-Timing of President’s illness
-Tkach’s night visit and diagnosis
The tape cut off at an unknown time before 8:22 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-13 (cont’d)
Date: July 12, 1973
Time: Unknown between 5:09 pm and 8:22 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
*****************************************************************
[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
-38-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 17 s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
President’s schedule
-President’s health
-Medical test
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
*****************************************************************
President’s schedule
-Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital
-Meetings
-Statement on national economy
-Paper
Watergate
-Access to files
-Senators’ possible response
-Carl T. Curtis
-William E. Timmons
-Creativity
-Barry M. Goldwater, Sr.
-White House response
-Decisions on Vietnam War
-Cambodia, December 1972 bombing
-Ervin Committee’s possible demand
-House Un-American Activities Committee [HUAC]’s
-39-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
1953 subpeona to Harry S. Truman
-White House staff response
-Melvin R. Laird
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Samuel Dash
-Possible White House selection
-Richard A. Moore
-Ervin Committee statement
-John W. Dean, III
-President’s knowledge
-Previous attack by Dean
-Meeting with Dean regarding President’s knowledge
-Rose Mary Woods
-Dean
-Conversation with President
-White House staff involvement
-Full disclosure
-Dean’s possible testimony
-Access to files
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s search for precedents
-Archibald Cox
-Possible removal
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s press briefing
-President’s contacts with Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Letter ,telephone conversation
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-Ervin’s reaction
-White House response
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Goldwater
-Access to President
-Harlow
-Ziegler
-Edward J. Gurney’s possible meeting with Laird
-Ziegler’s press briefing
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Ervin
-Ziegler’s schedule
-40-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:09 pm.
Request for Ziegler
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:23 pm.
President’s health
-Track record during Presidency
-President’s schedule
-Announcement
-Forthcoming economic package of Phase IV controls
-Walter Reed Hospital visit
-Radio address
-State Dinner
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Visitors to hospital
Ziegler entered at 5:23 pm.
Watergate
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-Leaks
-Newspaper column
-White House response
-Ervin Committee leaks
-Florida
-Goldwater’s statements
-George H. W. Bush
-Conversation with Harlow
-Possible travel
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-President’s schedule
-Wire service coverage
-Ervin Committee staff
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-41-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
-Ervin
-Possible subpeona of President
-Access to files
-Access to files
-President’s July 6, 1973 statement
-Perception of compromise
-President’s schedule
-Ervin
-News leads
-Moore
-Ervin Committee testimony
-Statement
-Cross-examination by Terry F. Lenzner
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Mitchell
-Ervin’s comment to Dash
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-Ervin Committee’s goal
-Leonard Garment
-Meeting with unknown group, July 12, 1973
-President’s schedule
-Ervin
-Timing
-Press coverage
-Location
-Baker
-President’s conversation with William E. Timmons
-Access to files
-Cox
-Buzhardt’s views
-Constitutional issue
-Haig’s view
-Possible removal
-Possible selective release
-Laird, Harlow, Goldwater
-Gerald L. Warren’s press briefing
-Story, July 12, 1973
-42-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
-Rowland Evans, Robert D. Novak
-Gurney
-White House staff reaction
-Laird, Harlow
-Dean, Mitchell, Moore
-Possible allegations against President
-Possible selective release
-Possible allegations
-Dash
-Dean
-September 15, 1972 meeting with President and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ervin
-Treatment of witnesses
-Mitchell
-Conversation with President
-Michael Gravel
-Ervin Committee
-Relations with White House
-Garment
*****************************************************************
[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
President’s schedule
-President’s health
-X-ray
-Viral pneumonia
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 42 s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
-43-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
President’s health
-Electrocardiogram
-Publicity
-X-ray
-Naval clinic
-Publicity
-Leaks
-Announcement
-Viral pneumonia
-Public relations [PR]
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
*****************************************************************
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:23 pm.
Request for Dr. Walter R. Tkach
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:44 pm.
President’s health
-Announcement
-X-ray
-Results
-Privacy
-Prognosis
-Potential Bethesda Naval Hospital visit
-Privacy of X-ray visit
Tkach entered at 5:44 pm.
President’s schedule
-Naval Medical Clinic visit
-Timing
-44-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
-Security, visibility
*****************************************************************
[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
President’s health
-Diagnosis
-Examination, X-ray
-Extent of condition
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4A
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 32 s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4A
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public relations [PR]
-President’s health
-Possible hospital visit
-Diagnosis
-Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital compared to Bethesda Naval
Medical Center
-Timing
-Announcement
-Projection of heart attack, stroke
-Press reaction
-Perception of national calamity
-Compared to other presidents
-Stroke, diabetes [?], heart attack
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Announcement
-Tkach
-45-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
-Content
-Statement
-Prognosis
-Symptoms
-Camp David compared to hospital, White House
-Weather
-Announcement
-Wording
-Symptoms
-Viral pneumonia
-Diagnosis
-Lung damage
-Influenza
-Virus
-Fever
-President’s location while sick
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4B
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 24 s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4B
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President’s health
-General wellbeing
-Possible hospital visit
-Attendants
-Military personnel [?]
-Manolo Sanchez
-Immediate departure
-Need for diagnosis
-Announcement
-Symptoms
-46-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-12 (cont’d)
-Undetermined diagnosis
-Escalation of rumors
-Need for private X-ray at naval clinic
-PR
-Hospital visits due to viruses
-Diagnosis
-Appearance of tiredness
-Hospital visit
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
*****************************************************************
Presidency
-President’s opponents’ goals
-Press relations
-President’s obituary
The President left at 5:59 pm.
PR
-Announcement regarding President’s health
-Hospital
-Tkach [?]
-President’s recent appearance
-Tired eyes [?]
-Honesty
-Credibility
-Timing of President’s illness
-Tkach’s night visit and diagnosis
The tape cut off at an unknown time before 8:22 pm.
-47-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-13 (cont’d)