Conversation: 433-073
Prev: 433-072 Next: 433-074Start Date: 8-May-1973 6:59 PM
End Date: 8-May-1973 7:37 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On May 8, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 6:59 pm to 7:37 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 433-073 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 433-73
Date: May 8, 1973
Time: 6:59 pm - 7:37 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Refreshment
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Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered and Sanchez left at 6:59 pm.
White House staffing
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Donald E. Santarelli
-Busing
-Edward L. Morgan
-Qualities
-Morgan
-Conversation with Haig
-Santarelli
-Buzhardt
-Haig’s role
-William P. Rogers
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Aims
-Documents
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, and President
-Buzhardt
-John B. Connally
Dean
-Henry A. Kissinger and yeoman [Charles E. Radford]
-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
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Conversation No. 433-73 (cont’d)
Press relations
-Time magazine
-Attack on President
-Watergate
-Opposition to President
-President’s accomplishments
-1972 election
-Vietnam War
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
President’s role in White House
-Leonard Garment
-Cable to Kissinger
-Dean’s testimony before Senate
-Haldeman’s role
-Executive role
-Priorities
-“Big plays”
-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War
-SALT
-Wage and price controls
-Buzhardt
-Garment
-Personality
-Intelligence
-Buzhardt’s role
Watergate
-Buzhardt’s role
-Defense Department
-Agnew
-Connally
-Buzhardt
-Toughness
-William P. Clements
-Loyalty
-Transportation Department
-San Antonio
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Conversation No. 433-73 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Dean
-Documents
-Judge’s possible ruling
-Access
-Haig’s call to Elliot L. Richardson, May 4
-Garment’s letter
Richardson
-Confirmation
-Special Prosecutor
National mood
-Watergate
Watergate
-Dean
-White House counterattack
-Agnew
-Connally
-President
-J. Strom Thurmond
-Congress
-Richardson
-Haig’s conversation with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s preparation for testimony
-Lawrence M. Higby
-Haig
-Perjury
-Lying
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-President’s role
-Dean
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Failure to inform President
-Intent of funds for defendants
-White House counterattack
-Agnew
-Connally
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Conversation No. 433-73 (cont’d)
-Forthcoming briefing by Haig
-President’s briefing
President’s actions in 1972
-Time
-Watergate
-Opposition to administration
-National influence
Kissinger
-Meeting with Haig
Taping system
-Knowledge of existence
-Haldeman
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Extent
-Executive Office Building [EOB] office
-Oval Office
-Camp David
-Possible use in Watergate investigation
-Haig’s possible informing of Kissinger
-Telephone conversations
-Johnson
-President’s lack of knowledge
-Haldeman
-Transcription
-Haig’s possible informing of Kissinger
-Effect
-Kissinger’s statements
Kissinger
-Patriotism
-Expertise
-Compared to Rogers
-Rogers’s view of the world
White House staffing
-Haig’s schedule
-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose, Buzhardt, and Santarelli
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Conversation No. 433-73 (cont’d)
-Santarelli
-Qualities
-Morgan
-Compared to David N. Parker
Watergate
-White House response
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Agnew, Connally, and Senators
-President’s role in White House
-Haig
Dean
-Documents
-Past legal career
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Ehrlichman
Radford
-Haig’s suspicions
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
Watergate
-Executive privilege
-National security
-Bureaucratic espionage
-Leaks
-Time
-Moorer
-Impeachment
-President’s papers
-Access
-Garment
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
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[Duration: 22 s ]
JAPAN, CHINA
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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-Draft response
-Buzhardt and Connally
-Dean
-Documents
-Possible immunity
-Described
Haig left at 7:37 pm.