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Conversation: 045-217

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Start Date: 10-May-1973 6:40 PM

End Date: 10-May-1973 6:48 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: White House Telephone

045-217.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 10, 1973, Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone from 6:40 pm to 6:48 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-217 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 45-217

Date: May 10, 1973
Time: 6:40 pm - 6:48 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President.

     Congressional relations         

          -President’s telephone call to William E. Timmons 

          -Legislation in House of Representatives 

                -Effect of vote          

                -Damage limitation         

                       -Timmons’s role          

                -Timmons          

                -State Department, Defense Department        

                       -Responsibility        

                -Haig’s meeting with Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford 

          -Effect of legislative setback 

                -North Vietnam

                       -Hanoi          

                -Repetition         

                -Defense Department           

                       -Drafting of legislation
                              -Comptroller
                              -Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. October-2012)

                                                           Conversation No. 45-217 (cont’d)

               -House Republicans         

                     -Votes       

                     -Defections      

                     -Democrats       

          -Timmons’s office        

               -Assistance       

                     -[First name unknown] Saunders        

                            -Defense Department     

                     -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.    


     President’s schedule      

           -Henry A. Kissinger       


     Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Haig 

           -Work with John B. Connally 

                 -Foreign Policy     


     Cabinet meeting, May 10, 1973 

          -Tone       


     Connally’s schedule      

          -Lawrence M. Higby [?] 

          -Work for White House 

          -Kissinger briefing    


     President’s situation    

           -Press reaction     

           -Haig’s meeting with press 

                 -Cabinet meeting
                 -Appointments of Dr. James R. Schlesinger and William E. Colby