Conversation: 165-008
Prev: 165-007 Next: 165-009Start Date: 11-May-1973 7:08 PM
End Date: 11-May-1973 7:27 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 7:08 pm to 7:27 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 165-008 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 165-8
Date: May 11, 1973
Time: 7:08pm - 7:27 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-Wiretaps
-Number and targets
-Cut-off date
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-8 (cont’d)
-William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Timing
-White House files
-William D. Ruckelshaus’s conversation with Haig
-J. Edgar Hoover’s statement to William C. Sullivan
-Contents
-FBI feud with Justice Department
-Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement
-Timing
-Henry A. Kissinger’s possible statement
-Ruckelshaus’s investigation
-Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement
-Compared with previous administrations
-John F. Kennedy administrations
-White House files
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s examination
-John N. Mitchell’s memo
-Lake
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Ruckelshaus
-Forthcoming statement
-W. Mark Felt
-Sullivan’s opposition
-Number and targets
-Purpose
-Lake
-Ruckelshaus
-FBI
-Haig’s view
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing
-Compared with previous administrations
-Mitchell
-Role
-Testimony
-Lake
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-8 (cont’d)
-Hunt’s possible statements
-John D. Ehrlichman’s comment to the President
-Difficulty
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing
-Soviet summit
-National security
-Forthcoming leak
-Haig’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Statements
-Ruckelshaus, Kissinger