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Conversation: 045-203

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Start Date: 10-May-1973 4:54 PM

End Date: 10-May-1973 5:00 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haig, Alexander M., Jr.

Recording Device: White House Telephone

045-203.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 10, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 4:54 pm to 5:00 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-203 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 45-203

Date: May 10, 1973
Time: 4:54 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     Watergate     

          -Indictments of John N. Mitchell and Maurice H. Stans 


     President’s schedule       

           -Henry A. Kissinger      

                 -Press coverage      

           -Meeting with Kissinger, Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft, and Haig 

           -Kissinger, William P. Rogers 

                 -Rogers’s trip

     Watergate
          -Stans      

                -Mitchell      

                -Indictments       

                -Perjury     


     Press coverage of President

     Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s telephone call to Haig 

          -William E. Colby appointment 

          -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] directorship 

                -Unknown candidate         

                      -Background        

                -William C. Sullivan       

          -Sullivan      

                -Qualifications      

                -Henry E. Petersen       

                -J. Edgar Hoover       

                -Possible meeting with Haig       

                -Loyalty       

                      -Early work with White House
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. October-2012)

                                                           Conversation No. 45-203 (cont’d)

                -Jackson’s view      

                -Opposition to Hoover       

                -Possible meeting with Haig    

                -Comparison with William M. Byrne 

                -Bipartisan support     

           -Colby

     Dr. James R. Schlesinger 

           -Comparison with Elliot L. Richardson 

           -Toughness      


     Watergate
          -Rogers’s call to Haig 

               -Earl Warren’s response           

               -Warren E. Burger       

          -Tom C. Clark