Conversation: 045-217
Prev: 045-216 Next: 045-218Start 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
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] -140- 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