Date: June 15, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:46 am and 9:51 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-President’s meeting with Nellie L. Yates, June 14, 1973
-Dedication ceremony
-Request for Haig’s review
Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Henry A. Kissinger’s statement
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] response
-President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-Content
-Delivery
Kissinger entered at 9:20 am.
Foreign travel
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Forthcoming meeting with PRC ambassador
-Possible trip to PRC
-Kissinger’s opinion
-Possible trips
-Russia, Europe
-PRC
-Timing
-“Year of Europe”
-Use to convey White House message
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-Russia
-Implications
-Eastern Europe
-President’s previous conversations
-Timing
-PRC, Russia
-PRC
-Kissinger’s possible visit
-France
-Congressional visit
-Agnew
-Knowledge of US strategy
-Agnew
-Possible trips
-Eastern Europe
-Poland, Hungary
-PRC
-Message to PRC ambassador
-Possible trips
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Kissinger
-Agnew
-President, Chou En-Lai
-Exchange of visits
-Agnew
-Timing
Forthcoming Brezhnev trip
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin [?]
-President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
Press coverage
-Kissinger’s briefing, June 14, 1973
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Iceland
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Motives
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-Political battle
Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Congressmen
-Reception
-Significance
-Press coverage
-Objectivity
-New York Times
-Vietnam, Cambodia
-Compared to John W. Dean, III’s forthcoming testimony
Watergate
-Dean’s forthcoming testimony
-Popular opinion
Foreign relations
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-US PRC relations
-PRC ambassador
-President’s message
-Kissinger’s invitation to San Clemente
-Activities
-Suggestion for possible Chou visit
-French foreign minister [Maurice Schumann]
-San Clemente
Bryce N. Harlow
-Role on White House staff
-Agnew
-Haig, Kissinger
Agnew
-Possible trips
-Middle East
Personnel appointment
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-Joseph J. Sisco
-Middle East
-Posting to Soviet Union
-Soviet Union
Middle East
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with President
Kissinger left at 9:30 am.
Agnew
-Previous conversation with President
-Timing
-Need for communication
President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-Content
-Change
-Reference to Watergate
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am.
Request for Ziegler
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:32 am.
President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-Change
-Reference to Watergate
-Request for Ziegler
-Content
Congress
-House
-Cambodia
-Senate
-Hugh Scott
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-Remarks
-President’s assessment
Ziegler entered at 9:32 am.
President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-Mistake
-[Speechwriters]
-President’s assessment
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 9:36 am.
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-President’s knowledge
-John W. Dean, III
-White House response
-Status
-News stories
Press coverage
-Energy, Brezhnev visit
-Tone
-Television [TV]
-Washington Post
Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 9:32 am.
President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-Error
-Distribution
-Change
-Raymond K. Price, Jr., John K. Andrews, Jr., David R. Gergen
-Possible Watergate reference
-Possible press response
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Ziegler left at 9:38 am.
National economy
-President’s program
-Congressional response
John B. Connally
-News story
-Haig’s conversation with Bob Toth, June 14, 1973
-Source in Texas
-Anne L. Armstrong’s conversation with Connally, June 14, 1973
-Meetings with President
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rowland Evans article
-Role in administration
-Staff
-State Department
National economy
-President’s program
-Arthur F. Burns
-Conversation with Haig, June 14, 1973
-Support for President
-Forthcoming testimony
-George P. Shultz
-Conversation with Haig, June 15, 1973
-Controls
-Limited timeframe
Shultz
-Morale
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Receiving party
-State Dinner
-Earl L. Butz
-Nikolai S. Patolichev
-Sequoia
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-Conversation with Burns, June 14, 1973
-President’s assessment
-Role
-[Workload]
-Laird
-Relationship with Roy L. Ash
-Haig’s assessment
National economy
-President’s program
-Press coverage
-White House staff
Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am.
Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Burns
-Invitation
-Woods’s forthcoming telephone call
-Message from President
Woods left at an unknown time before 9:51 am.
National economy
-President’s program
-Effect
-Haig’s opinion
-Shultz
-Congress
-Labor negotiations
-Wages
-Dan Rather’s remarks, June 15, 1973
60 Minutes
-June 17, 1973 show
-Changes to theme
-National economy, energy
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-Ziegler, Shultz, Kissinger, Haig
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Magruder
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Mitchell
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Possible immunity
-Haldeman
-Maurice H. Stans
-Harry Reasoner’s comments concerning Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Report
-Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Dean
-President’s knowledge
-White House staff procedures
-Workload in 1972
President’s forthcoming speech in Pekin, Illinois
-Delivery
-Airplane flight
-Socialization with passengers
Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Results of trip with President [?]
-Speech
Haig left at 9:51 am.