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Start Date: 12-May-1973 2:27 PM

End Date: 12-May-1973 2:35 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

165-029.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone at Camp David from 2:27 pm to 2:35 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 165-029 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 165-29

Date: May 12, 1973
Time: 2:27 pm - 2:35 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     Watergate
          -L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III 

                -White House attempts to contact 

                -Wiretaps       

                      -John D. Ehrlichman and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
          -Wiretaps       

                -Material for William D. Ruckelshaus 

                -President’s contacts with Haldeman and Ehrlichman 

                -Daniel Ellsberg       

                      -Acquittal
          -Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters 

                -Location       

                -Possible conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. 

                      -Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
                            -Availability to Richard M. Helms
          -Helms       

                -Schedule       

                -Forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt         

                      -Memcons
          -Walters
                -Conversations with Haig and Buzhardt
                      -Memcons
          -Helms
                -Possible memcons
                      -Conversation with the President concerning Watergate
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. February-2012)

                                                            Conversation No. 165-29 (cont’d)

                             -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] involvement
           -Walters
                 -Possible conversation with Haig
                       -Memcons
           -Presidential papers
                 -Compared to Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] documents
                       -Release to public
                 -National security

     President’s schedule

     Watergate
          -Gray         

                  -White House attempts to contact 

                  -Testimony       

                        -Press coverage

     Leonard Garment       

          -Conversation with Haig         

          -Package to Camp David