Conversation: 439-029
Prev: 439-028 Next: 439-030Start Date: 21-May-1973 5:40 PM
End Date: 21-May-1973 5:55 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Buzhardt, J. Fred, Jr.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On May 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:40 pm to 5:55 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 439-029 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 439-29
Date: May 21, 1973
Time: 5:40 pm - 5:55 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
President met with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
Watergate
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-President’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman and Henry E. Petersen,
April 18
-President’s knowledge
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper [statements about Watergate investigation,
May 22, 1973]
-Preparation
-Content and phraseology
-Ellsberg break-in
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s role
-President’s instructions to Petersen
-Federal Bureau Investigation [FBI] investigation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation 439-29 (cont’d)
-Hunt
-Timing of questioning
-Ellsberg break-in
-President’s meeting with Richard G. Kleindienst
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-President’s knowledge
-President’s discussion with Petersen
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Content and phraseology
-Ellsberg break-in
-Leonard Garment and Ronald L. Ziegler
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-National security
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Executive privilege
-Charles W. Colson
-Staff members’ memoranda of conversations with President
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Buzhardt’s possible conversation with lawyer
-Location
-Possible actions
-Location
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s rule
-Staff members’ memoranda of other conversations
-Conduit theory
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Buzhardt’s conversations
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-John Wilson
-Executive privilege
-Buzhardt’s conversation with Haldeman
-Status of Haldeman’s notes
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation 439-29 (cont’d)
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:40 pm.
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s location
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:55 pm.
Watergate
-Executive privilege
-White House response
-Domestic intelligence
-Buzhardt’s conversations
-Robert Mardian
-Bernie Welles
-Ervin Committee investigation
-John W. Dean, III
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Pentagon Papers
-Compared with Dean’s documents
President and Buzhardt left at 5:55 pm.