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Conversation: 045-149

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Start Date: 2-May-1973 6:35 PM

End Date: 2-May-1973 7:55 PM

Participants:

Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: White House Telephone

045-149.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 2, 1973, Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:35 pm and 7:55 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-149 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 45-149

Date: May 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 6:35 pm and 7:55 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. October-2012)

                                                      Conversation No. 45-149 (cont’d)


White House staff
     -Haldeman’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
           -Appointment as Chief of Staff 

                  -Military career       

                  -Henry A. Kissinger’s reaction   

     -Haig      

           -Attributes        

           -Leonard Garment            

           -Proposed meeting with President      

           -Assignment          

                  -Terms         

                  -Duration          

           -Location        

                  -Georgia         


President’s schedule
      -David Packard
      -Haig

White House staff
     -Garment, George P. Shultz
           -Intentions
     -Haig      

           -Relationship with Kissinger         

           -Intelligence, experience    


Watergate
     -Haldeman’s testimony
     -Gordon C. Strachan
           -Firing by James Keogh         

           -Testimony        

     -Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. 

           -Activities characterized      

           -Justice Department       


President’s schedule
      -Haig
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                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. October-2012)