Conversation: 438-025
Prev: 438-024 Next: 438-026Start Date: 22-May-1973 9:34 AM
End Date: 22-May-1973 9:55 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On May 22, 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 9:34 am and 9:55 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 438-025 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 438-25
Date: May 22, 1973
Time: Unknown between 9:34 am and 9:55 am
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-Presentation of White Paper to Congressional leaders
-President’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Congressional leaders
-Bryce N. Harlow’s view
-President’s conversation with Ziegler
-Content
-Attendees
-Correspondents
-President’s previous conversation with Stephen B. Bull
-Meeting with Haig
-Cabinet meeting
National economy
-Haig’s forthcoming meeting at 4:00 pm
-Attendees
-William E. Simon, George P. Shultz, Kenneth R. Cole and Roy L.
Ash
-Agenda
-Congressional committee
-Possible wage and price freeze
-Simon’s recommendation
-Politics
-Need for action
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2011)
Conversation No. 438-25 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Study on leaks by National Security Council [NSC]
-Forthcoming White Paper on Watergate
-Composition
-Authorship
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Timing of release
National economy
-Press coverage
-Ziegler
-Haig’s meeting at 4:00 pm
-Need for action
-Ash and Shultz
Watergate
-Effect on the President’s activities
-Communications
-Haig’s conversation with Ziegler
-Prisoners of war [POW] issue and forthcoming summits
-Georges J. R. Pompidou meeting
-William J. Baroody, Jr. and Herbert G. Klein
-White House staff meetings
-Ziegler
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Dwight L. Chapin, and
Charles W. Colson
-Government operations
-Responsibility
-Effect on White House staff
-Attitude
-Confidence
-Number of resignations
-Ziegler [?]
-Elections
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2011)
Conversation No. 438-25 (cont’d)
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Conversation with Haig
-Confirmation
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Mood
-Richard M. Helms
-Connotations from news summaries
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda
-Opinion regarding President’s role in cover-up
-John W. Dean, III’s visits
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-Allegations on use of Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] in cover-
up
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray
-Conversations with President
-Topics
-Dean
-Documents
-Support from Congressional leaders
-John C. Stennis
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Possible conversation with Haig
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Conversation with Haig
-Jackson
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s possible testimony
-Executive privilege
-Executive privilege
-Documents
-Buzhardt’s view
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Richardson
-News stories
-Martha Mitchell
-Telephone call
-President’s role
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2011)
Conversation No. 438-25 (cont’d)
-Cover-up
-National security
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Purposes
-Audience
-Popular concern
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Composition
Haig left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.