Conversation: 165-004
Prev: 165-003 Next: 165-005Start Date: 11-May-1973 6:35 PM
End Date: 11-May-1973 6:47 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On May 11, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone at Camp David from 6:35 pm to 6:47 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 165-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 165-4
Date: May 11, 1973
Time: 6:35 pm - 6:47 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Vault
Watergate
-Wiretaps
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-White House
-President’s press conference statement
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Robert F. Kennedy’s tenure as Attorney General
-William D. Ruckelshaus’s possible statement
-Compared with previous administrations
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Newsmen
-Leaks
-Possible public reaction
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s statement
-Telephone call to Clark MacGregor, July 5, 1972
-President’s activity
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Statement
-Conversation with Henry E. Petersen
-James R. Schlesinger
-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
-Conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Memcons
-Possible testimony
-William E. Colby
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-4 (cont’d)
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-Elliot L. Richardson
-Edward Bennett Williams
-Prosecutorial experience
-Bernard Goldfine
-Boston money case
-Special Prosecutor
-FBI checks
-Possible Directors of FBI
-William M. Byrne, Jr.
-Handling of Daniel Ellsberg case
-Unknown St. Louis judge
-Tod Hullin
-Ehrlichman’s former staff
-Unknown man’s resignation
-Ellsberg case
-Ruckelshaus
-Memcons
-Haig’s meeting with Buzhardt
-Wiretaps
-William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake
-Robert C. Mardian
-FBI
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-4 (cont’d)
-President’s knowledge of Hunt’s activities
-Lake
-Hoover
-George S. McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Role
-Relationship to Lake
-Kissinger’s forthcoming press conference, May 12
-National security
-Kissinger’s role
-White House involvement
-President, Haig, Kissinger
-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Compared with previous administrations
-Robert F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-National security
-Buzhardt’s view
-Lake
-Possible White House actions
-Courts
-FBI
-Kissinger
-Meeting with W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Search for file
-Buzhardt
-United States Secret Service [USSS]
-White House attitude
-Lake
-National security
-Newsmen
-Public attitude
-Possible statement by Ziegler
-Kissinger’s possible statement, May 12
-Content
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-4 (cont’d)
-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement
-Research in files
-Hoover’s practice
-Mardian
-William C. Sullivan
-John N. Mitchell
-Testimony
-Kissinger’s possible statement, May 12
-India-Pakistan War
-National security
-Lake
-Hunt
-FBI
-National security
-Legal basis
-Bombing of Cambodia
-Search for file
-Buzhardt and Lawrence M. Higby