Conversation: 165-010
Prev: 165-009 Next: 165-011Start Date: 12-May-1973 10:11 AM
End Date: 12-May-1973 10:49 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On May 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:11 am to 10:49 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 165-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 165-10
Date: May 12, 1973
Time: 10:11 am - 10:49 a.m.
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
President’s schedule
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. and Haig
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-10 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Wiretaps
-Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming press briefing
-Newsmen
-Kissinger’s forthcoming press briefing
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-White House files
-Possible return to William D. Ruckelshaus
-Kissinger
-Daniel Ellsberg
-President’s conversation with Haig, May 11
-W. Mark Felt
-Felt
-Role in Ellsberg case
-Continuation in office
-Information from Time magazine
-President’s instructions to L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Leaks
-President’s conversation with Richard G. Kleindienst
-Statement in Ellsberg case
-Ellsberg
-Mistrial
-Information sent to William M. Byrne, Jr. by White House
-Wiretaps
-Haig’s interview with unknown FBI agent, May 11
-Leaks
-Ellsberg
-Byrne’s request
-Henry E. Petersen
-Ruckelshaus
-Haig’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-Buzhardt
-Records of Lyndon B. Johnson’s and John F. Kennedy’s administrations
-Robert C. Mardian’s testimony
-Kissinger and Haig
-Contrasted with William C. Sullivan’s testimony
-12-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-10 (cont’d)
-John D. Ehrlichman
-White House files
-Sullivan’s fears
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Transfer to FBI
-Reasons for maintenance in White House
-Possible FBI leaks
-Hoover
-Ruckelshaus’s investigation
-President’s news conference
-Robert F. Kennedy
-William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake
-FBI
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s possible activity
-FBI
-Legality
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger and William E. Colby
-Richard M. Helms
-Location
-Haig’s discussion with Buzhardt
-National security
-Helms
-Possible memcon
-Walters
-Possible testimony regarding memcons
-Custody
-Memcons
-Colby and Schlesinger
-Memcons
-Location
-Possible testimony
-National security
-13-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-10 (cont’d)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National security]
[Duration: 10 s ]
INTELLIGENCE
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Watergate
-Gray
-Press reports regarding telephone discussion with the President
-White House response
-Clark MacGregor
-Gray
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming conversation with lawyer
-Testimony
-Walters’s memcon
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-John W. Dean, III
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Walters
-Conversation with Petersen
-Possible conversation with Helms
-Helms
-Conversation with the President
-Walters
-Memcons
-Ehrlichman’s quotation of the President’s words
-Haldeman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-10 (cont’d)
-Statement regarding Gray
-President’s actions
-Dean’s quotes
-President’s statement
-Possible interpretation
-Haldeman, Walters, and Helms
-President’s intent
-Copies
-Helms
-Walters’s possible testimony
-National security
-Contrasted with executive privilege
-Walters’s possible testimony
-Schlesinger
-Walters’s conversation with Schlesinger
-Petersen
-Haig’s subsequent conversation with Schlesinger
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 13 s ]
INTELLIGENCE
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Watergate
-Haig’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-10 (cont’d)
-Buzhardt
-Gray
-Walters
-Possible statement
-Leak of Grand Jury testimony
-Press reports
-President and Gray
-Washington Star
-Ziegler
-Gray
-Possible statement
-MacGregor
-Possible statement
-Haig’s meeting with Buzhardt and Ziegler
-Haig’s call to Gray
-Gray’s possible statement
-Break-in
-White House response
-President’s conversations
-Gray
-Helms
-President’s new appointments
-Press coverage
-CIA memcons
-National security