Conversation: 167-007
Prev: 167-006 Next: 167-008Start Date: Sunday, May 20, 1973 2:47 PM
End Date: Sunday, May 20, 1973 2:56 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On May 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:47 am to 10:56 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 167-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 167-7
Date: May 20, 1973
Time: 10:47 am - 10:56 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
President’s schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 167-7 (cont’d)
Haig’s schedule
-John B. Connally
-Jamaica
-Robert H. Finch
President’s trip to Norfolk, Virginia, May 19
-Television [TV] coverage
Watergate
-News reports
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-John W. Dean, III
-Apparent Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] cover-up
National economy
-Connally’s possible meeting with George P. Shultz and Roy L. Ash
-Stock market
-Du Pont Corportion and H. Ross Perot
-Phase III
-Watergate impact
-[Wage and price freeze]
-”Theoretical purity’
-Connally’s view
-Economists’ views
-Political motives
-Compared with economic interests
-President’s meeting with Shultz
-Connally’s view
-Wage and price freeze
-Phase I move
-Reassurance for country
-Political motives
-Compared to economic interests
-Confidence problem
-Wall Street
-President’s view
-Shultz
-Ash
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 167-7 (cont’d)
Vietnam settlement
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Communiqué
-Cease-fire agreement
-North Vietnam
-South Vietnam
-Cambodia
-Timing of release
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
Watergate
-White House response
-Connally
-”Apocalyptic terms”
-Haig’s conversation with Perot
-Investment in Du Pont
Watergate
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Requirements
-Walters’s memcons
-Possible release
-John C. Stennis’s assurances to J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Symington
-President’s motives