Conversation: 438-032
Prev: 438-031 Next: 438-033Start Date: 22-May-1973 11:38 AM
End Date: 22-May-1973 12:27 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Acker, Marjorie P.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Woods, Rose Mary;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On May 22, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Marjorie P. Acker, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 11:38 am and 12:27 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 438-032 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 438-32
Date: May 22, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:38 am and 12:27 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President talked with Marjorie Acker.
[Conversation No. 438-32A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
Dictation
-National security
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 11:58 am.
Watergate
-President’s responsibility
[End telephone conversation]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2011)
Conversation No. 438-32 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Forthcoming White Paper
-President’s actions
-Authorizations
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Editing
-White House strategy
-Economy
-Richard M. Helms
-Knowledge of President’s role
-Motive
-John C. Stennis and Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 11:58 am.
Copy of statement draft page
Woods left at an unknown time before 12:03 pm.
Watergate
-Forthcoming White Paper
-President’s role and knowledge
-Phraseology
-[Editing]
-Plumbers
-Instructions
-Activities
-President’s disapproval
-President’s responsibility
-President’s approval
-Woods
Woods and Acker entered at 12:03 pm.
Watergate
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Editing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2011)
Conversation No. 438-32 (cont’d)
-Instructions for typist
Woods and Acker left at 12:05 pm.
Watergate
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Content
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Responsibility
-Allegations of plans
-Bugging
-Kidnapping
-Armed groups
-President’s knowledge
-President’s role and knowledge
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Charles W. Colson
-Access to documents
-Colson
-David R. Young, Jr.
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Public opinion
-Helms and Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Congress
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. and Wallace F. Bennett
-Effect on presidency and Republican party
-President’s role
-World situation
Woods entered at an unknown time after 12:05 pm.
Watergate
-Forthcoming White Paper
Woods left at an unknown time before 12:25 pm.
Watergate
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2011)
Conversation No. 438-32 (cont’d)
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Phraseology
-National security
-[Krogh’s] assignment
-President’s responsibility
-Colson
-Krogh
-Testimony regarding orders
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Young
-Possible testimony
-Krogh
-Testimony regarding orders
-Ehrlichman
-Public support for President’s national security actions
-Cover-up
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Money
-Walters
-Explanation of President’s actions
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Statement regarding President’s foreign policy
National economy
-George P. Shultz
-Need for action
-Presidential leadership
-Price freezes
-John B. Connally’s views
-Wall Street
-Public reaction
-Discussion on Sequoia
Watergate
-Howard K. Smith’s view on timing of hearings
Woods entered at an unknown time after 12:05 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2011)
Conversation No. 438-32 (cont’d)
Forthcoming White Paper
-Phraseology
-Cover memorandum
Woods left at 12:25 pm.
Watergate
-Effect on Wall Street
-George H. W. Bush
-Statement, May 21
-Rowland Evans-Robert Novak column
Haig left at 12:27 pm.