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Conversation: 432-030

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Start Date: 9-May-1973 12:03 PM

End Date: 9-May-1973 12:31 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

432-030.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 9, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:03 pm and 12:31 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 432-030 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 432-30

Date: May 9, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:03 pm and 12:31 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

       White House special prosecutor
             -Appointment
                    -Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
                            -Background
                                    -Governor, Attorney-General
                                            -California
                                    -Democrat
                                            -Regard for Presidency [?]
                            -Advantages
                                    -Name recognition
                                    -Former district attorney
                                            -Effect on committee
                                    -Sensitivity to national interests
                            -Background
                                    -Attorney general
                                    -Governor
                                            -President’s Democratic opponent, 1962
                    -Elliot L. Richardson’s choice
                            -Harvard University
                            -Effect on John N. Mitchell
                    -Brown
                            -President’s recommendation
                                    -Richardson
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