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Start Date: 11-May-1973 2:24 PM

End Date: 11-May-1973 2:47 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Bull, Stephen B.Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Woods, Rose Mary

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

434-016.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 11, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:24 pm to 2:47 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 434-016 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 434-16

Date: May 11, 1973
Time: 2:24 pm - 2:47 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                    (rev. September-2012)

                                                            Conversation No. 434-9 (cont’d)

       President’s schedule

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 2:25 pm.

Bull left at 2:26 pm.


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

       Refreshment        

              -Dubonet        

              -Lunch        

                     -Alcohol

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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       Watergate
             -Vernon A. Walters
                   -William E. Colby
                   -Dr. James R. Schlesinger
                   -Memorandum of conversation [memcon]
                           -President
                           -L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
                           -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
                           -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
                                   -Cover-up
                                          -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
             -Buzhardt
                   -Haldeman and Ehrlichman
             -Memcons
                   -Elliot L. Richardson’s possible request
                   -Walters’s preparation of sanitized version
                           -Timing of delivery to Richardson
                           -Haig’s concern
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    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                       Tape Subject Log
                     (rev. September-2012)

                                               Conversation No. 434-9 (cont’d)

               -Senate committee
               -Colby, Richardson, Schlesinger
       -President’s role
               -Haldeman, Ehrlichman
       -President’s intentions
               -Richard M. Helms’s subsequent conversation with President
-Haig’s forthcoming meeting with Walters
       -Colby, Schlesinger, Richardson, and Henry E. Petersen
       -President’s conversation with Gray
       -Walters’s memory
       -Walters’s testimony
               -Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Buzhardt’s fears
       -President’s conversation with Gray
       -Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman
               -Haig’s conversation with Buzhardt [?]
                       -Guilt
                               -“Conduit theory”
               -President’s support
                       -Compared to Henry A. Kissinger
                       -Compared to Adm. Thomas A. Moorer
                               -Pentagon
                               -Jack N. Anderson story
               -Buzhardt
-Walters
       -Possible conversations
       -Colby and Schlesinger
       -Richardson
       -Haldeman and Ehrlichman
               -Contact with Walters
-Meetings
       -John W. Dean III
       -National security leaks
       -Ehrlichman’s possible approval
       -Buzhardt’s viewpoint
       -Ehrlichman’s and Haldeman’s indictments
               -National security issue
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    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                       Tape Subject Log
                     (rev. September-2012)

                                                Conversation No. 434-9 (cont’d)

-President’s trust
       -Buzhardt
       -Dean
       -Buzhardt
       -H[orace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
       -Leonard Garment
       -Buzhardt
       -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Watergate break-in
       -President’s beliefs concerning CIA
       -Funds for defendants
                -President’s knowledge
-President’s judgment in personnel
       -Moorer           

                -Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]      

                -Henry A. Kissinger          

                -State Department         

                -Bugging          

-Walters
       -President’s conversation with Gray regarding Watergate investigation
                -Gray’s grand jury testimony
       -Possible statement to Petersen
                -President’s conversation with Gray
-Buzhardt
       -Walters
       -Haldeman’s involvement
-Walters
       -Possible statement regarding Haldeman and Ehrlichman
                -National security
       -Forthcoming conversation with Haig
                -Walters’s statement         

                        -Haldeman and Ehrlichman        

                        -Dean        

                        -Meeting with President       

                        -Meeting with Petersen      

                               -Haig’s support
                               -CIA involvement
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                         Tape Subject Log 

                                       (rev. September-2012)

                                                                Conversation No. 434-9 (cont’d)

                       -Helms
                                -Conversation with President regarding CIA involvement in
                                 Watergate
              -Colby
                     -Nomination
              -Walters’s testimony
                     -Possible conversations
                              -Schlesinger and Richardson
                     -Memcons
                              -White House files
                                     -Ownership
                              -Contents
                              -Possible copies
              -Richardson, Colby, Schlesinger         

                     -Nominations           

              -Walters         

                     -Conversation with Colby           


Rose Mary Woods talked with the President between 2:42 pm and 2:43 pm.

[Conversation No. 434-16A]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 46-7]

The President conferred with Haig during the conversation.

[Begin conferral]

       Watergate       

             -Woods        

             -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files 


[End conferral]

[End telephone conversation]
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                    (rev. September-2012)

                                                               Conversation No. 434-9 (cont’d)


       Watergate        

             -President’s previous conversation with Woods 

             -FBI files       

                     -Ehrlichman        

                     -Woods         

                     -Lawrence M. Higby         


       Haig

       Watergate       

             -Haldeman and Ehrlichman               

             -White House response           

             -Judge John J. Sirica [?] 

                    -Ehrlichman          

             -William M. Byrne, Jr. 

                    -Leak         


Haig left at 2:47 pm.