Conversation: 046-105
Prev: 046-104 Next: 046-106Start Date: 17-May-1973 4:58 PM
End Date: 17-May-1973 5:16 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Buzhardt, J. Fred, Jr.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On May 17, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. talked on the telephone from 4:58 pm to 5:16 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 046-105 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 46-105
Date: May 17, 1973
Time: 4:58 pm - 5:16 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
President’s schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Watergate
-Huston Plan
-Affidavits
-Noel Gayler
-[First name unknown] McManus’s files
-Memoranda
-Participants’ notes
-Louis W. Tordella [?]
-Unknown person
-[First name unknown] Brennan
-Memoranda regarding termination of plan
-William C. Sullivan
-Tordella
-Notes regarding telephone conversations with Sullivan
-[First name unknown] DuBois’s statement
-Donald V. Bennett’s message to [First name unknown] Stillman
-Buzhardt’s contact with Richard M. Helms
-Dates
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s note to Tom C. Huston
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Paper to the President
-Documentary evidence
-Brennan
-Sullivan
-Contact with Buzhardt
-Schedule
-Recollections
-Action taken
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 46-105 (cont’d)
-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-Possible actions
-Ervin Committee
-Ervin Committee’s possible actions
-Huston Plan
-White House response
-Activities prior to 1967
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Sullivan
-Huston Plan
-William D. Ruckelshaus’s, James R. Schlesinger’s awareness of Buzhardt’s
investigation
-Decision not to implement
-Description
-Approval
-John W. Dean, III’s paper
-Disapproval of plan
-Bureaucratic method
-Temper of the times
-Articles
-Cambodia
-Kent State
-Break-in of FBI
-Threats against Henry A. Kissinger and President
-Ronald L. Zeigler
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-White House response
-Ervin Committee
-Witnesses
-Impact on forthcoming trials
-Bobby G. Seale case
-John N. Mitchell, Haldeman, and John D. Ehrlichman
-Seale case
-Television [TV] coverage
-Joseph McCarthy and Joseph N. Welch
-Buzhardt’s schedule
-Huston Plan
-Implementation
-Hoover
- President’s signed approval
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)