Conversation: 436-009
Prev: 436-008 Next: 436-010Start Date: 14-May-1973 3:10 PM
End Date: 14-May-1973 3:51 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On May 14, 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 3:10 pm and 3:51 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 436-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 436-9
Date: May 14, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:10 pm and 3:51 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-William D. Ruckelshaus’s statement
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Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 436-9 (cont’d)
-Judge John W. Dean, III’s documents
-John J. Sirica’s actions
-Lawrence M. Higby
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Conversations
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson, and
Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Timing of report
-Walters
-Senate Armed Services Committee testimony
-Possible effects
-Testimony compared to Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Dean
-Possible grand jury appearance
-Haig’s previous conversation with Buzhardt
-Forthcoming indictments
-Jeb Stuart Magruder, John N. Mitchell and Dean
-Grand jury testimony
-Haldeman
-Higby
-Ehrlichman
-Tape of Ehrlichman and Richard G. Kleindienst’s phone conversation, July 1972
-Paper
-Executive privilege
-Wiretaps in national security leak investigation
-Ruckelshaus’s statement
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Haig
-National security
-Haig’s conversation with William C. Sullivan
-Ruckelshaus
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files of previous wiretaps
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
and John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Use of United States Secret Service [USSS] rather than FBI
-FBI files
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Conversation No. 436-9 (cont’d)
-Ruckelshaus
-Mark W. Felt
-Reliability
-Ruckelshaus’s statement
-President’s assessment
-Ziegler’s opinion
-President’s letter to J. Edgar Hoover regarding Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Source of leak
-Two letters
-Attachment
-Daniel Ellsberg’s associates
-FBI leak
-FBI
-Removal of files to White House
-Sullivan
-Ruckelshaus’s statement
-Release of names
-Legality
-Access to wiretap information
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Wiretaps
-William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake
-Knowledge
-Publicity
-Haig’s assessment
-Employment
-Morton H. Halperin and Henry Brandon
-FBI leaks
-FBI files
-Grand jury testimony
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Buzhardt
-Dean
-Immunity
-Compared with Magruder
-Wiretaps
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Conversation No. 436-9 (cont’d)
-National Security Council [NSC]
-President’s role
-Kissinger’s role
-Krogh
-Sullivan and Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Krogh
-Ellsberg
-Krogh
-David R. Young, Jr.
-President’s letters to Hoover regarding Krogh
-Effective date of law
-June 1972
-FBI activities
-Lake
-Krogh and E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Cut-off date for FBI
-Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman
-Grand jury testimony
-Telephone call to Kleindienst
-Tape and transcript
-Buzhardt
-Executive privilege
-Dean’s documents
-John J. Sirica
-Haldeman
-Walters
-Senate Armed Services Committee testimony
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Gen. Robert E. Cushman
-President
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Dean
-White House reaction to press stories
-Ziegler’s
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Time distribution
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Conversation No. 436-9 (cont’d)
-Buzhardt
-Walters
-Preparation for testimony
-Forthcoming indictments
-Possible effects
-Buzhardt and John C. Stennis
-FBI
-Richard M. Helms
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming testimony
-National security
-Kissinger
-Buzhardt
-Role in White House
-Compared to Leonard Garment
-FBI files
-Buzhardt, Ruckelshaus
-Location
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Location
-Ehrlichman
-White House response
-Dean
-Role
-Mitchell
-Sirica’s examination of documents
-President’s schedule
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Timing
-Department of Justice [DOJ] employee
-Haig’s mood
Haig left at an unknown time before 3:51 pm.
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