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Start Date: 12-May-1973 12:37 PM

End Date: 12-May-1973 12:54 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

165-019.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone at Camp David from 12:37 pm to 12:54 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 165-019 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 165-19

Date: May 12, 1973
Time: 12:37pm - 12:54 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     Watergate       

          -President’s previous conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler 

                -Henry A. Kissinger’s press briefing 

                       -Wiretaps       

                             -Compared with previous administrations    

                -Attempts to reach L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III 

                       -President’s conversation with Gray       

                             -Ziegler      

                                   -Leak      

          -Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
                -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
                -Possible release
                -Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Jr.’s appearance before Armed Services Committee
                       -Dr. James R. Schlesinger’s memcons
                -Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
                -Possible effects of White House refusal to release
                -Copies
                       -Richard M. Helms          

                -Schlesinger’s possible testimony       

                -June 28, 1972 memcon           

                       -Possible effect
                -White House retention        

                       -National security       

                       -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

                             -Schlesinger
                -June 28, 1972 memcon
                       -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s conversation with Helms
                                -24-

       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                         Tape Subject Log
                        (rev. February-2012)

                                                Conversation No. 165-19 (cont’d)

                  -Walters’s call to Gray          

           -Possible effect of release      

           -Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman               

           -Hearsay evidence           

     -Walters
     -Helms        

           -Possible possession of copy           

           -Forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt          

     -Haig’s conversation with Walters            

           -Copies        

     -Helms        

           -Forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt          

           -Conversation with Haldeman and Walters, June 28, 1972 

                  -White House concern            

                        -CIA involvement              

           -Conversation with Gray, June 27, 1972 

     -June 28, 1972 memcon            

           -Effects of possible release       

           -Helms        

                  -Memcon         

           -President’s motivation        

           -Haldeman and Ehrlichman             

           -Walters’s possible testimony             

           -Gray’s possible testimony         

           -Gray’s previous testimony          

                  -Conversation with Walters            

           -John W. Dean, III           

           -Possible release        

                  -White House response
-Buzhardt’s schedule
     -Haldeman and Ehrlichman
     -Charles W. Colson
           -E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Memcons
     -Effects of possible release
           -Helms’s conversation with Gray
                                             -25-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. February-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 165-19 (cont’d)

                        -President’s subsequent conversation with Gray
                 -Gray’s conversation with Walters        

           -Grand Jury        

           -Ziegler’s forthcoming statement       

                 -Haig’s call to the President