Date: May 13, 1973
Time: 4:21 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
Waggonner’s message to President
-William E. Timmons
-Visit to Louisiana
-Support for President
Watergate
-Daniel Ellsberg
-William M. Byrnes’s actions
Vote on Cambodia
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
-Republicans compared with Democrats
President’s accomplishments
-Crime rate, foreign policy, Vietnam War, Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Compared with Watergate
Watergate
-President’s response
-Removal of H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Grand Juries
-Leaks
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible effect on possible trials
-John N. Mitchell, Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Compared with Ellsberg
-Support for President
-Waggonner’s message to the President
John B. Connally
-Role in White House
-Business activities
-Law firm
Watergate
-Elected officials
-Crossing party lines
-Support for the President
-Press coverage
-President’s appearance in Meridian, Mississippi
-Public opinion
-Compared with other issues
Cambodia
-Implications for world peace
-Status of agreement
-American casualties
-Negotiations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2012)
-US position of strength
-Vietnam
-POWs
-Missing in Action [MIA]
-Compared to POWs
-Possible status
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Waggonner
-Support for President
-Louisiana
Watergate
-President’s possible response