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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Tape Subject Log

(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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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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