Conversation: 046-023
Prev: 046-022 Next: 046-024Start Date: 13-May-1973 10:09 PM
End Date: 13-May-1973 10:43 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On May 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 10:09 pm to 10:43 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 046-023 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 46-23
Date: May 13, 1973
Time: 10:09 pm - 10:43 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Haig’s schedule
-Patricia Haig
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Publicity
-President’s meeting with Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files
-Statement to William D. Ruckelshaus
-Delivery to White House by William C. Sullivan
-Timing
-Motivation
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Content
-Wiretaps
-National security
-John N. Mitchell’s authorization
-Perjury
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 46-23 (cont’d)
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s testimony
-Timing
-Possible content
-John W. Dean, III
-New York
-Possible effects of others’ testimony
-Jeb Stuart. Magruder
-Walters
-Money for defendants
-Documents
-Possible contents
-Possible immunity
-Possible indictments
-Magruder
-Mitchell
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Executive privilege
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Executive privilege
-Daniel Ellsberg case
-William M. Byrne, Jr.’s actions
-Reaction
-Ellsberg’s actions characterized
-McGeorge Bundy
Declassification
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Bay of Pigs
-Ngo Dinh Diem’s death
-Effect on Vietnam War
-Haig’s view
-President’s position
-Bay of Pigs
-Bundy
-Diem’s death
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Complicity
-Haig’s conversation with Lodge’s former assistant
-Events surrounding coup
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 46-23 (cont’d)
-Lodge’s conversation with Diem
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Pentagon Papers
-Clark M. Clifford
-Robert S. McNamara
-John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
-Release of information
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Committee report
-William H. Rehnquist
-Pentagon Papers
-White House position
-Release of documents
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Declassification
-White House position
-Release of documents
-Liberal reactions
-Value of controversy
-President’s position
-Libya
-Effect on Watergate investigation
-Bay of Pigs
-Chester Bowles
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 46-23 (cont’d)
-Adlai E. Stevenson
-Maxwell Taylor report
Watergate
-Dean
-Possible immunity
-Subornation of perjury
-Possible testimony
-Documents
-Walters
-Documents
-FBI documents
-Walters
-Documents
-Possible testimony
-Ruckelshaus
-Forthcoming statement, May 14
-Statistics
-Ehrlichman’s alleged request
-Sullivan’s meeting with Robert C. Mardian
-Sullivan
-FBI directorship
-Ruckelshaus
-Forthcoming statement May 14
-Term in office
-William E. Colby
-Possible testimony
-James R. Schlesinger
-Possible testimony
-Leaks
-Schlesinger and Colby
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Schlesinger
-Meeting with Buzhardt, May 13
-Purpose
-Knowledge of Watergate
-Walters and Dean
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Blackmail
-Dean
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 46-23 (cont’d)
-Richard M. Helms
-Cover-up
-Walters
-President’s meeting with Helms