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Conversation: 439-002

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Start Date: 21-May-1973 10:53 AM

End Date: 21-May-1973 11:13 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haig, Alexander M., Jr.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

439-002.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 10:53 am to 11:13 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 439-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 439-2

Date: May 21, 1973
Time: 10:53 am - 11:13 am
Location: Old Executive Office Building

President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

       Watergate        

             -White House response            

                     -Raymond K. Price, Jr.           

             -Intellectuals’ response         

             -White House response            

                     -Forthcoming White Paper [statements about Watergate investigation,
                      May 22, 1973]
                     -New York Times and Daniel Ellsberg case
                     -Phraseology and content
                              -Disclaimer on scope of paper
                              -President’s call to Gray
                                     -Gray’s conversation with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
                                     -President’s instructions
                              -President’s meeting with Gray
                                     -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
                              -President’s meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D.
                               Ehrlichman regarding Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
                               -2-

    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                       Tape Subject Log
                       (rev. August-2011)

                                                Conversation No. 439-2 (cont’d)

                      -Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s meeting with Richard M.
                        Helms and Walters
               -CIA involvement
                      -Plumbers
               -President’s investigation
                      -Discussions with Henry E. Petersen
                               -Extent of investigation
                               -National security
                      -E. Howard Hunt’s break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s
                        office
                               -Report to William M. Byrne
               -Ehrlichman
                      -Plumbers
               -Haig’s conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
                      -White House cooperation with Byrne
       -White House cooperation with Byrne
               -President’s conversations with Petersen
-Break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
       -Ehrlichman’s beliefs regarding John W. Dean III and Petersen
       -Ehrlichman’s knowledge
       -President’s knowledge
       -President’s cooperation with Byrne
               -President’s discussions with Petersen
               -Hunt
               -National security
       -Pictures
-Possible White House response
       -Documents and memcons [memos of conversation]
       -Ronald L. Ziegler’s statements
       -White Paper
               -Content and phraseology
               -Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt
-President’s conversations with Petersen
       -Cover-up
-President’s speech, April 30
       -Currency
       -Norfolk, Virginia speech
                                               -3-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. August-2011)

                                                               Conversation No. 439-2 (cont’d)

                             -Public confidence       

               -Haldeman and Ehrlichman         

                      -Funds for defendants
                             -Liability
                             -President’s knowledge
                             -Herbert W. Kalmbach
               -White House response         

                      -Forthcoming White Paper         

                             -Content and phraseology      

                      -Buzhardt         


Haig left at 11:13 am.