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Conversation: 911-031

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Start Date: 3-May-1973 12:18 PM

End Date: 3-May-1973 12:24 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.Haig, Alexander M., Jr.

Recording Device: Oval Office

911-031.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 3, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:18 pm to 12:24 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 911-031 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 911-31

Date: May 3, 1973
Time: 12:18 pm - 12:24 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and an unknown man.

       President’s schedule       

              -George P. Shultz       

                      -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.            


The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:18 pm.

       Kissinger’s previous press briefing
              -Question on Vietnam
              -David R. Young
                      -Security investigations

Haig entered at 12:18 pm.

       Kissinger’s schedule
              -Telephone call
              -Kissinger’s staff
              -Conversation with David Packard
                      -Money
                      -John C. Stennis

Kissinger left at 12:19 pm.

       Haig        

               -Role on White House staff 


       Watergate
             -Sherman Adams and Dwight D. Eisenhower
             -Compared with the President and John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”)
              Haldeman
                                              -42-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                        Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. September-2012)

                                                              Conversation No. 911-31 (cont’d)

              -President’s speech, April 30, 1973

       Haig
              -Possible Chief of Staff appointment 

                     -Military career        

                     -Staff management         

                             -Shultz
                             -Spiro T. Agnew and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
                     -Military rank
                             -Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster
                     -Handling
                             -Haig’s forthcoming meeting with William P. Clements
                     -Temporary assignment

       Kissinger [?]

       Watergate       

             -Daniel Ellsberg break-in         


Haig left at 12:24 pm.