Secret White House Tapes

39–79

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39–79
  • White House operator
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander M. Haig
June 4, 1973
Conversation No. 39-79

Date: June 4, 1973
Time: 9:39 pm - 9:48 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Incoming telephone call

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President.

[See also Conversation No. 442-67]

Haig’s previous meeting with Melvin R. Laird

Watergate

-White House tapes

-President’s review

-John W. Dean, III

-Statement

-White House tapes

-President’s review


Haig’s previous meeting with Laird
-Attendees
-Bryce N. Harlow, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., and William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Buzhardt’s and Baroody’s earlier meeting with Laird
-John B. Connally’s visit to Haig’s office
-Timing of announcement of return to White House staff
-Laird’s forthcoming activities
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 39-79 (cont’d)

-Spiro T. Agnew

-Laird’s wife’s reaction

-Administration’s forthcoming activities

-Vietnam, energy, economy

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] directorship

-Haig’s interviews

White House staff
-Roles of Laird, Harlow, and Haig
-Harlow
-President’s forthcoming meeting with boss, Howard [Last name
unknown] [at Proctor and Gamble]

Haig’s previous meeting with Connally
-Laird’s role on White House staff
-Connally’s departure
-Future role with White House staff

-Energy

-Future role with administration

-President’s regard

-Attitude


Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Laird
-Connally
-Future role with administration

-Timing


Laird’s call to Henry A. Kissinger, June 3
-Kissinger
-Future on White House staff

Kissinger
-Possible non-White House activities
-President’s assessment

Connally
-President’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 39-79 (cont’d)

-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Connally’s foreign travel
-President’s opinion contrasted with Kissinger’s opinion
-Possible effect
-Treatment by Haig

-Concern regarding Laird

-Conversation with Haig

-Laird

President’s schedule

Watergate

-White House tapes

-President’s review of conversations with Dean

-Content
-Key Biscayne
-Camp David
-Buzhardt

-Reaction to examination of Dean’s files

-Archibald Cox

-Relationship with Sam J. Ervin, Jr.

-Possible resignation

-Effect
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Henry E. Petersen
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