Conversation: 165-031
Prev: 165-030 Next: 165-032Start Date: 12-May-1973 5:17 PM
End Date: 12-May-1973 5:47 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On May 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone at Camp David from 5:17 pm to 5:47 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 165-031 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 165-31
Date: May 12, 1973
Time: 5:17 pm - 5:47 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-Wiretaps
-Henry A. Kissinger
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-White House attempts to contact
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s previous press briefing
-President’s role in investigation
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Possible Grand Jury testimony
-Possible leak
-White House response
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Plans
-Southeast Asia
-Wages and prices
-Energy
-John B. Connally
-Popular mood
-Possible indictments
-Jeb Stuart Magruder and John N. Mitchell
-Special Prosecutor
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Warren E. Hearnes
-Arthur Goldberg
-Walters
-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Memcons
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-31 (cont’d)
-Possible copies
-Access
-Richard M. Helms
-Possible testimony of William E. Colby and Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Files
-Possible testimony
-Memcons
-Storage location
-National security matters
-John W. Dean III
-Memcons
-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Memcons
-Henry E. Petersen
-National security
-Contacts with Dean
-Memcons
-Meetings with Gray
-Dean
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Helms
-Meeting in White House
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] involvement
-Instructions to Walters
-CIA involvement
-Walters’s verification
-Gray’s Grand Jury Senate testimony
-Memcons
-President’s call to Gray
-Gray’s contacts with Walters
-President’s instructions
-Gray’s contacts with Walters
-Ehrlichman and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-President’s motives
-July 12, 1972 memcon
-Wording
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-31 (cont’d)
-Contacts with Dean
-Meetings with Gray
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Watergate
-Walters
-Memcons
-National security
-White House reaction to possible release
-President’s motives
-Conversation with Haldeman
-President’s subsequent call to Gray
-President’s motives
-President’s call to Gray regarding investigation
-Meeting with Gray
-Possible charge of cover-up
-Helms
-Conversation with the President regarding CIA involvement
-Possible memcons
-Possible statement
-Walters’s role in investigation
-Conversation with the President regarding CIA involvement
-Gray
-Conversation with the President
-President’s instructions regarding investigation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-31 (cont’d)
-Gray’s statement
-Walters
-Memcons
-Gray
-Statement
-Press coverage
-Grand Jury testimony
Ziegler
Watergate
-President’s belief regarding CIA involvement
-Dean
President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler at an unknown time before 5:47 pm.
Watergate
-Ziegler’s previous press briefing
-Gray
-Conversation with the President
-Electoral Reform Commission
-Public interest
-Gray
-Conversation with the President
-Investigation
-Dean
-Conversation with the President
-Ziegler’s morale
-Case
-Dean
-President’s efforts
-Dean
-Motives
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)