Date: June 22, 1973
Time: 2:02 pm – 2:08 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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(rev. November-2012)
[See also Conversation No. 448-7]
President’s agreement with Leonid I. Brezhnev an use of nuclear weapons
-Reaction
-John F. Kennedy’s administration
-Use of threat of force
Provisions
-Effect of US
-Restraint
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-“Brezhnev Doctrine”
-Reaction
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Political risk of agreement
-Achievements of the administration
-Reaction
-New York Times, Washington Post, Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Watergate
-J. William Fulbright
-Reaction
-Network television [TV]
-Dan Rather
-Thomas E. Jarriel
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Sarah McClendon
-Mood
-President’s conversation with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing
-Treaty
-Will of the parties
President’s meetings with Brezhnev
-Haig description
-Reaction
-Rather
-President’s accomplishments
President’s opponents
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. November-2012)
President agreement with Brezhnev
-Reaction
-Robert S. McNamara
-Government service
-Fulbright, Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-PRC
White House staff
-Haig’s meeting with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Meetings
-Melvin R. Laird
-Momentum
-Role of deputies
-Laird’s role
-US Congress
-Laird’s assessment of administration