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June 13, 1972

Introduction

This almanac page for Tuesday, June 13, 1972, pulls together various records created by the federal government and links to additional resources which can provide context about the events of the day.

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Schedule and Public Documents

Archival Holdings

Any selection of archival documents will necessarily be partial. You should use the documents and folders identified below as a starting place, but consult the linked collection finding aids and folder title lists and the collections themselves for context. Many documents to be found this way do not lend themselves to association with specific dates, but are essential to a complete understanding of the material.

  • Selective document listing

    President's Office Files

    The President's Office Files consists of materials drawn together by the Special Files Unit from several administrative subdivisions within the White House Office. It is the handwriting and sensitive papers sent to the Staff Secretary that now comprise much of the President's Office Files. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

    President's Personal File

    The President's Personal File is essentially a President's secretary's file, kept by Rose Mary Woods, personal secretary to the President, for two purposes: (1) preserving for posterity a collection of documents particularly close to the President, whether because he dictated or annotated them, or because of the importance of the correspondent or the event concerned and (2) giving appropriate attention–letters of gratitude, invitations to White House social events, and the like–to members and important friends and supporters of the Nixon administration. This generalization does not describe all the varied materials of a file group which is essentially a miscellany, but it does identify the reason for the existence of the file group's core. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

  • The H. R. Haldeman Diaries consists of seven handwritten diaries, 36 dictated diaries recorded as sound recordings, and two handwritten audio cassette tape subject logs. The diaries and logs reflect H. R. Haldeman’s candid personal record and reflections on events, issues, and people encountered during his service in the Nixon White House. As administrative assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, Haldeman attended and participated in public events and private meetings covering the entire scope of issues in which the Nixon White House engaged in during the years 1969-1973. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

    • Transcript of diary entry (PDF)
      Tuesday, June 13th. Leadership meeting this morning. Mainly to review the plans on the SALT treaty, and the arms agreement, both of which are being sent up to the Hill today.

      The President had me over afterwards. We got into some discussion on the McGovern follow-up and attack, the problem being that McGovern made a statement last night, or yesterday, that I heard on the radio last night, saying he wasn't going to change his views, that none of this was reported in the paper. So the question arises is what happened to our man who is supposed to be monitoring all of McGovern's statements? The more we got to thinking about it the more upset the President got about that as he realized that our McGovern record is only what the media have reported if we aren't taping him. I found out later today, however, that we have been taping him, although we've missed some occasions, including the one in New York yesterday.

      We got into the plan for the Congressional briefing and the question of whether it's a good idea to shoot Kissinger this early on television. The decision was that it was not, and that what we should do is go for the East Room deal, not televised, with the President giving an opening statement and Kissinger handling the Q and A for a couple of hours, covering both the ABM and the Agreement, inviting all four committees. After going back and forth on timing we decided to do it Thursday morning even with the Echevarria arrival conflict, and we'll work it out on that basis. In the same connection, the President got into a discussion of when and whether he should do a press conference. He still has the urge to do an in-office press conference rather than one on TV, but has agreed now to wait until next week to do that probably on domestic policy only. And then definitely to do one on TV the following week, before we go to California.

      He got into a discussion of strategy on the McGovern attack, making the point that he made yesterday on the Buchanan memo, that we've got to build up our issue rather than just attacking his—ours being foreign policy. He's concerned about who can write this. He needs someone with more spine than Price, more bite, but it can't be Safire—maybe Kerolikus or someone like that. Buchanan can't do it, because he doesn't believe in our foreign policy position. It may be that the new writer that we've got is enough of a hawk that he can handle that. In any event, he's anxious that we maintain the effort on that kind of an attack.

      We talked a little about things in general. Henry seems to be optimistic on Vietnam again...

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      DECLASSIFIED - E.O. 13526, Sect. 3.4: by MS, NARA, June 12, 2013
      Audio Cassette 22, Side A, Withdrawn Item Number 8 [AC-22(A) Sel 4]
      Duration: 28 seconds

      …a little concerned about the Chinese being upset on our bombing so close to the border. And the official protest they filed today. It turns out we actually bombed across the border and hit a Chinese convoy by accident, which is what the Chinese were complaining about although they didn't say so publicly.
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      End of June 13th.
    • Original audio recording (MP3)

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National Security Documents

  • The President's Daily Brief is the primary vehicle for summarizing the day-to-day sensitive intelligence and analysis, as well as late-breaking reports, for the White House on current and future national security issues. Read "The President's Daily Brief: Delivering Intelligence to Nixon and Ford" to learn more.

  • The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Visit the State Department website for more information.

    Vol. XV, Soviet Union, June 1972-August 1974

    Post-Moscow Summit Discussions and Issues, June-August 1972

    Vol. XIX, Part 1, Korea, 1969-1972

    Republic of Korea Troops in Vietnam and Force Modernization, April 1971-December 1972

    Vol. XXIX, Eastern Mediterranean, 1969-1972

    Cyprus

    Vol. XXXII, SALT I, 1969-1972

    The Summit and Congressional Approval of the SALT Agreements, May 19-October 4, 1972

    • 326. Conversation Among President Nixon, Members of the Republican Congressional Leadership, and Others, Washington, June 13, 1972

      Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, White House Tapes, Cabinet Room, Conversation No. 102–8. No classification marking. According to the Nixon Tapes Log, the recording began after 8:01 a.m. at an unknown time while the conversation was already in progress. The editor transcribed the portion of the conversation printed here specifically for this volume. Other participants included Shultz, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Charls Walker, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Senator Gordon Allott, Senator Norris Cotton, Congressman Leslie Arends, Congressman John Anderson, Congressman John Rhodes, Congressman Bob Wilson, Congressman H. Allen Smith, Congressman Samuel Devine, Congressman Richard Poff, Congressman Barber Conable, Senator Robert Dole, Haig, MacGregor, Flanigan, Cole, Timmons, Dent, Klein, Buchanan, Weinberger, Cook, Korologos, and Ziegler. On June 13 Nixon sent a message to the Senate and a letter to the House of Representatives that transmitted the ABM Treaty and the Interim Agreement on Strategic Offensive Arms. The text of those messages is in Public Papers: Nixon, 1972, pp. 674–676.

    • 327. Conversation Among President Nixon, Senator John Stennis, the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), the Assistant to the President (Haldeman), and the President’s Deputy Assistant for Legislative Affairs (Korologos), Washington, June 13, 1972

      Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, White House Tapes, Oval Office, Conversation No. 732–6. No classification marking. According to the President’s Daily Diary, Nixon met with Stennis, Kissinger, Haldeman, and Korologos from 9:52 to 11:09 a.m. (Ibid., White House Central Files) The editor transcribed the portion of the conversation printed here specifically for this volume.

    Vol. E-1, Documents on Global Issues, 1969-1972

    U.S. Policy Towards Terrorism, Hijacking of Aircraft, and Attacks on Civil Aviation: U.S. Response to Hijackings by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Additional Anti-Hijacking Measures, September 1970-June 1972

    Vol. E-2, Documents on Arms Control and Nonproliferation, 1969-1972

    Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; Implementation of Safeguard System

    • 58. Conversation Between President Nixon and his Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Washington, June 13, 1972, 11:43 a.m.-1:18 p.m.

      The President and Kissinger discussed the NPT and the Department of State’s effort to get Kissinger to urge Japanese ratification of the treaty while visiting that nation.

      Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, White House Tapes, Conversation No. 732–11. No classification marking. The editor transcribed the portions of the tape recording published here specifically for this volume.

    Vol. E-4, Documents on Iran and Iraq, 1969-1972

    Iraq 1972

  • The Kissinger telephone conversation transcripts consist of approximately 20,000 pages of transcripts of Kissinger’s telephone conversations during his tenure as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1969-1974) and Secretary of State (1973-1974) during the administration of President Richard Nixon. Visit the finding aid for more information.

    Digitized versions can be found in the National Archives Catalog.

Audiovisual Holdings

Context (External Sources)