Conversation: 437-026
Prev: 437-025 Next: 437-027Start Date: 18-May-1973 5:15 PM
End Date: 18-May-1973 5:33 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On May 18, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:15 pm to 5:33 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 437-026 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 437-26
Date: May 18, 1973
Time: 5:15 pm - 5:33 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-President’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-President’s knowledge
-$350,000
-Herbert W. Kalmbach and clemency
-John D. Ehrlichman
-President’s desire for full disclosure
-President’s conversation with Charles W. Colson regarding clemency
-Earl Silbert
-Ehrlichman, Dean
-Haig’s conversation with Bryce N. Harlow, Patrick J. Buchanan, and Raymond
K. Price, Jr.
-Haig’s conversation with John C. Stennis
-Release of Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation
[memcons]
-Possible testimony
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-White Paper
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-National security
-John W. Dean III
-Role
-Full disclosure
-Preparation of draft
-Timing
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Plumbers
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Conversation No. 437-16 (cont’d)
-Haig’s conversation with Richard M. Helms
-Helms’s conversation with the President
-Possible White House response
-President’s resignation
-Impeachment
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Need for veracity
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Buzhardt, Price, and Buchanan
-James W. McCord’s testimony before Ervin Committee, May 18
-Possible defense by President
-Clemency
-John N. Mitchell’s role
-Ehrlichman
President’s speech
-Norfolk, Virginia, May 19
-Military personnel
Watergate
-National security
-President’s opponents’ motives
-White House response
-President’s forthcoming speech
President’s schedule
Watergate
-White House response
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Price
-Possible White Paper
-Haig, Buzhardt, and Harlow
-Format
-Walters’s memcons
-Possible leak
-Compared to McCord’s testimony
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Conversation No. 437-16 (cont’d)
-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-Content
-White House approval of cover-up
-Walters’s alleged rejection of plan due to lack of White
House approval
-Dean
-Burglars
-Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Relationship with Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Lawyer’s conversation with Buzhardt
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:15 pm.
President’s schedule
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:33 pm.
Watergate
-Colson
-Lawyer’s conversation with Buzhardt
-White House response
-Possible White Paper
-Possible speech
Haig’s schedule
-Meeting with Spiro T. Agnew
William D. Ruckelshaus
Haig’s schedule
Haig left at 5:33 pm.
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