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 -71- 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with Haig Henry A. Kissinger -Mood -December ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [National security] [Duration: 3 s ] HAIG’S STATEMENT END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ***************************************************************** Watergate -Huston Plan -White House reaction -Hoover’s reaction -Stewart J.O.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 -72- 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.