949–14

Conversation No. 949-14

Date: July 12, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:22 pm and 8:44 pm
Location: Oval Office

Henry A. Kissinger met with an unknown man.

President’s schedule

-Departure


Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.

President’s health

-President’s schedule

-Departure
-Bethesda Naval Medical Center
-Earlier trip
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Spiro T. Agnew, Kissinger
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) (Ryan) Nixon
-Planning

-Announcement


Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.

Announcement
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Conversation No. 949-14 (cont’d)

-Timing

-Length

-President’s health


Ziegler left at an unknown time before 8:44 pm.

The President entered at an unknown time after 8:22 pm.

President’s health
-Rest

The President talked with the White House operator at 8:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 949-14A]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 41-68]

[End telephone conversation]


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

President’s health

-Treatment


[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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President’s schedule
-Bhutto’s state visit

-Cancellation

-Agnew

-Rome

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Conversation No. 949-14 (cont’d)

-William P. Rogers
-Compared to Congress members
-President’s support
-Delay
-Agnew
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) (Ryan) Nixon
-Hospital
-Cancellation
-Humiliation
-President’s support
-Compared to Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Compared to John C. Stennis
-Confrontation
-Hospital

-Cancellation

-Signature

-Haig

-Staff and family

-Bhutto

-Compared to Ervn
-Kissinger’s forthcoming telephone call to Pakistani ambassador
-Hospital
-Duration

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 8:33 pm.

President’s health

-Announcement


Ziegler left at an unknown time before 8:44 pm.

President’s health
-Announcement

-Dr. Walter Tkach’s diagnosis

-Effect on American people

-President’s schedule
-Effect on Ervin and Archibald Cox
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Conversation No. 949-14 (cont’d)


Watergate
-President’s conversation with Ervin
-Ervin’s goal
-Leaks
-Ervin Committee
-John N. Mitchell’s testimony
-Richard A. Moore’s testimony
-John W. Dean, III’s testimony
-John D. Ehrlichman’s possible testimony
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Possible Ervin Committee testimony
-Immunity
-Effect

President’s meeting with Walter Scheel

President’s foreign policy accomplishments
-Year of Europe
-Summit
-Vietnam War

Watergate

-President’s opponents

-Rowland Evans


President’s health

-Ziegler’s announcement

-White House press corps

-President’s schedule

-Kissinger

Haig’s schedule

Ziegler’s location

Kissinger and Haig left at an unknown time before 8:44 pm.
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Conversation No. 949-17 (cont’d)