Conversation: 045-203
Prev:  045-202 Next: 045-204Start 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
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 -130- 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