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Conversation: 165-002

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Start Date: 11-May-1973 5:35 PM

End Date: 11-May-1973 5:47 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haig, Alexander M., Jr.

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

165-002.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 11, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone at Camp David from 5:35 pm to 5:47 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 165-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 165-2

Date: May 11, 1973
Time: 5:35 pm - 5:47 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     Greeting

     Watergate
          -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] 

               -William D. Ruckelshaus        

               -Records        

               -Ruckelshaus’s possible statement       

                     -Timing         

               -William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake 

                     -Wiretap          

                           -Timing       

               -Wiretaps         

                     -Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt           

                     -Haig         

                           -Reason for wiretap
                                  -2-

       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                          Tape Subject Log
                         (rev. February-2012)

                                                 Conversation No. 165-2 (cont’d)

                       -Leaks
-White House wiretaps
      -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement
      -Wiretaps by FBI
      -Possible wiretapping by White House
             -National security considerations
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
      -Wiretapping
-Robert C. Mardian’s testimony, May 10
      -John D. Ehrlichman
             -White House knowledge
-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement
      -Wiretaps        

             -Buzhardt       

             -FBI      

             -White House        

                   -Hunt
-Wiretaps
      -Lake
             -Henry A. Kissinger
      -Records
             -White House        

      -Morton H. Halperin          

      -Sonnenfeldt        

      -Lake        

      -FBI      

             -Legality       

             -National security      

-Kissinger’s possible press briefing
      -Soviet statement
      -Wiretaps
-Wiretaps
      -Ronald L. Ziegler
      -Mardian’s testimony
             -Contacts with Haig and Kissinger
                                                -3-


                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                    (rev. February-2012)

                                                                 Conversation No. 165-2 (cont’d)

                       -Ehrlichman        

                -Haig        

                       -Duration        

                -Lake          

                       -Timing of departure        

                       -FBI        

                -Ziegler         

           -Daniel Ellsberg case        

                -Actions of William M. Byrne, Jr. 

                       -Dispatch of material       

                               -Haig’s meeting with Buzhardt       

           -Wiretaps       

                -Kissinger’s potential press questions       

                       -Kissinger’s knowledge of press targets
                -Ziegler’s knowledge
                -Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement
                -Statement
                -Lake