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Start Date: 2-Jun-1973 11:56 AM

End Date: 2-Jun-1973 12:05 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

168-017.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:56 am and 12:05 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 168-017 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 168-17

Date: June 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:56 am and 12:05 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     Haig’s schedule
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             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. March-2011)

                                                         Conversation No. 168-17 (cont’d)

      -Meeting     

           -Meeting with President        

                -Camp David        

                      -Birch Lodge            


White House staff
     -Relations with President
           -Proximity
     -John J. McCloy
           -Conversation with Haig
                 -Possible role
     -Peter G. Peterson

President’s schedule
      -President’s conversation with Stephen B. Bull
            -Bipartisanship [Republican] Congressional leaders meeting
                  -Meeting with Georges J. R. Pompidou
                  -Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing

Wiretaps
     -Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
           -Names
                 -Newsmen
     -Strategy

White House staff
     -Organization      

          -Ronald L. Ziegler    

          -Bryce N. Harlow, Melvin R. Laird 

          -Energy position    

          -Haig’s confidence     


Watergate
     -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s view
     -Archibald Cox’s staff
     -Ervin Committee
            -Howard H. Baker, Jr. vs. Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
            -Possible release of Huston plan 

                  -Effect      

                  -Richard Helms       

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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. March-2011)

                                                           Conversation No. 168-17 (cont’d)

                      -National security       

                      -Ervin      

                      -Ervin Committee         

           -Cox’s staff
                 -Possible indictments
                        -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D Ehrlichman, and Charles W. Colson
                        -Buzhardt’s view
           -President’s conversation with Haldeman 

                 -Buzhardt        

                 -Haldeman’s testimony          

                        -President’s conversation, June 2, 1973   

                        -Haldeman’s lawyers’ opinion         

           -Haldeman and Mitchell           

                 -Press treatment       

           -Ervin Committee hearings          

                 -Buzhardt’s view         

           -John L. McClellan         

                 -Statement concerning President         

                 -Possible conversation with Buzhardt or Harlow 

           -President’s statement       

                 -Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s testimony         

           -President’s possible testimony        


     Haig’s schedule     

          -Meeting with President