Conversation: 434-016
Prev: 434-015 Next: 434-017Start 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
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.