Conversation: 046-116
Prev: 046-115 Next: 046-117Start Date: 18-May-1973 8:49 PM
End Date: 18-May-1973 9:06 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On May 18, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 8:49 pm to 9:06 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 046-116 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 46-116
Date: May 18, 1973
Time: 8:49 pm - 9:06 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. The recording began at an unknown time
while the conversation was in progress.
Watergate
-Unknown documents
-National security
-Timing of White House response
-Leaks
-Timing of release of John W. Dean, III’s documents
-Huston Plan
-Possible briefing
-Charles (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Haig
-President’s possible television [TV] appearance
-Haig’s forthcoming consultation with Ziegler
-Possible White House reaction
-Indictments
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Archibald Cox
-Special Prosecutor
-Contrast with Warren R. Christopher
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Replacement
-Herbert Miller
-Haig’s conversation with Joseph R. Califano
-Califano
-Handling of Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-W. Mark Felt
-Cabinet meeting
-President’s schedule
-Norfolk, Virginia
-Ruckelshaus
-Ruckelshaus
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 46-116 (cont’d)
-Handling of FBI
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Huston Plan
-White House reaction
-Briefing
-Ziegler compared with Haig
Henry A. Kissinger
-Mood
-December
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National security]
[Duration: 3 s ]
HAIG’S STATEMENT
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Watergate
-Huston Plan
-White House reaction
-Hoover’s reaction
-Stewart J.O. Alsop’s article
-Possible White Paper
-Wiretaps
-Plumbers
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memorandum
-Dean
-Effect
-Contrast with possible TV appearance by President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 46-116 (cont’d)
-Popular reaction
President’s schedule
-Speech at Norfolk, Virginia
-Camp David
-White Paper
-Haig and Raymond K. Price, Jr.