Conversation: 165-040
Prev: 165-039 Next: 165-041Start Date: 13-May-1973 10:48 AM
End Date: 13-May-1973 11:10 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On May 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:48 am to 11:10 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 165-040 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 165-40
Date: May 13, 1973
Time: 10:48 am - 11:10 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Haig’s schedule
-Mother’s Day
President’s previous conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
Watergate
-Washington Post lead stories, May 13
Election Reform Commission
-Terms in office for Congress and President
-Retirement age
-Wright Patman
-John C. Stennis
-Membership
-John James Williams
-Chairman
-Selection process
-Legislation
-Discussion of term limits
-Recommendations
-Term for House of Representatives
-Timing of election cycles
-Length
-Support
-Age
-Williams [?]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-40 (cont’d)
-Financing
-Limits on organizational contributions
-Complaints against Democrats in 1972
-Leonard Garment, Patrick J. Buchanan, Republican National Committee
[RNC], and Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Campaign violence
-White House strategy
-Editorials
-President’s forthcoming speech
Roy L. Ash
-John B. Connally’s role in White House
-Conversation with the President, May 12
-Connally’s role in White House
-Foreign Policy
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Energy
-Quadriad
-Advisor
Watergate
-Wiretaps
-News stories
-Soviet summit compared to Ervin Committee
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters and L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Kissinger’s briefing, May 12
-Bob Sherman’s story in the Washington Star
-Haig’s opinion
-Wiretaps
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Morton H. Halperin
-Knowledge
-Concern
-Haldeman
-Bob Sherman’s story in Washington Star
-Buzhardt’s meeting with William D. Ruckelshaus
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-40 (cont’d)
-Report
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Kissinger’s demand
-Kissinger
-President’s opinion
-Preparation for press briefing
-India-Pakistan issue
-Conversation with Haig, May 13
-Sherman’s story
-Ruckelhaus’s forthcoming statement
-Walters
-Memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-Views of Haig, Buzhardt, Dr. James R. Schlesinger and William E.
Colby
-Motives of President, John D. Ehrlichman and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] involvement
-John N. Mitchell
-[Bank deposits]
-Mexico
-John W. Dean, III
-Richard M. Helms
-Possible testimony
-President’s role
-Walters and Gray
-Memcons
-Possible disclosure
-Ownership
-Charles W. Colson
-Campaign
-Walters’s possible testimony
-Dean
-Haig’s conversation with Buzhardt
-Compared with Richard E. Cushman’s memcons
-Schlesinger
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-National security
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-40 (cont’d)
-Haig’s conversation with Buzhardt
-White House response
-Charges of cover-up
-Grand Jury
-Press coverage, May 13
-Popular mood
-Dean’s documents
-Haig’s conversation with [David] Kenneth Rush
-American diplomats in Europe
-European’s reaction
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Watergate
-Dean’s documents
-Judge John J. Sirica’s possible action
-Contents
-Memoranda [memo] from the President
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Tape Subject Log
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