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 -12- 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 -13- 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-White House position -Release of documents ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [National Security] [Duration: 34 s ] INDIA-PAKISTAN END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ***************************************************************** 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 -14- 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 -15- 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