Conversation: 912-018
Prev: 912-017 Next: 912-019Start Date: 8-May-1973 12:59 PM
End Date: 8-May-1973 1:47 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 8, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:59 pm to 1:47 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 912-018 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 912-18
Date: May 8, 1973
Time: 12:59 pm - 1:47 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Haig’s conversation with John B. Connally
-Connally’s schedule
-Nigeria, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Attendance at Cabinet meeting
-Appointment
Haig’s conversation with [Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Rose’s possible role in White House
Watergate
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
Personnel appointments and management
-Haig’s conversation with Roy L. Ash
-Counselors to President
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Role in administration
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Role in administration
-Domestic Council
-FBI director
-[First name unknown]Gates
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-18 (cont’d)
-Haig’s conversation with William P. Clements, Jr., Dr. James R. Schlesinger and
William E. Colby
-Appointments
-Cabinet meeting
-Cabinet meeting
-Clements
-Richardson
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Resignation
-Richardson
-Schlesinger
-Colby
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Connally
-White House senior staff meeting
-President’s possible comments
-Roosevelt room
Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Possible immunity
-Possible consequences
-Haig’s possible conversation with Richardson
-President’s conversation with Henry E. Petersen
-Possible consequences
-President’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Possible statement regarding President’s response to funds for
defendants
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-White House counterattack
-John N. Mitchell
-Administration’s previous crises
-Cambodia, December 1972 bombing
-President’s previous meeting with Donald McI Kendall
-Effect on Presidency
-Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Role with Dean
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-18 (cont’d)
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible White House comment
-President’s knowledge of Donald H. Segretti
-Allegations regarding President
-Statement by unknown Pulitzer Prize winner, 5/7
-Washington Post
-President’s relations with press
-Dean’s documents
-White House claim
-Control
-John J. Sirica
-Safety Deposit box
-Assumed description
-Memorandum written at Camp David
-Supplemental memoranda
-Believability
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and President
-Memoranda of conversations
-Diary of President’s meetings
-Ziegler
-President’s meeting with Dean, September 15, 1972
-David C. Hoopes’s telephone call to Haig, May 5
-Leonard Garment’s request
-Possible subpoena
-Possible response
-President’s meeting with Dean, September 15, 1972
-Haldeman’s statement to President concerning meetings with Dean
-Length
-Diary of President’s meetings
-Access
-President’s meeting with Dean and Haldeman, September 15, 1972
-Substance
-Dean’s statement
-Significance of date
-Possible subjects discussed
-Indictments
-President’s will
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-18 (cont’d)
-Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-President’s calendar entries
-Haig’s guidance to Ziegler
-Dean’s statement
-Possible subjects discussed
-Indictments
-Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Dissemination of information
-Lawrence M. Higby’s forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-President’s recollection
-Haldeman’s possible memorandum
-Haldeman’s memory
-Necessity of informing Haldeman
-Need for Haldeman to tell truth
-Information for President
-President’s conversation with Dean, March 21
-Subjects discussed
-Magruder’s testimony
-President’s reaction
-Dean’s meetings with Mitchell
-Funds for defendants
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-$350,000
-William O. Bittman’s demands for money
-President’s response
-Dean’s interpretation compared with President’s
-Dean report
-Trip to Camp David
-Segretti
-White House involvement
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Dean
-Bittman’s demands for money
-President’s response
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s threats
-Ehrlichman
-Dean’s possible statements
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-18 (cont’d)
-Possible White House counterattack
-President’s response
-Dean report
-Possible charge against President regarding obstruction of justice
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-President’s response
-$120,000 for Hunt
-Clemency
-President’s methodology
-Dean report
-Dean’s role with Magruder’s testimony
-Dean’s attempt to write report
-Effects on Dean
-National interest
-Dean’s possible attacks on President
-Obstruction of justice
-Possible White House counterattack
-Dean’s documents
-Dean’s veracity
-Ehrlichman’s alleged conversation with President
-Dean’s conversation with President, September 15, 1972
-Haldeman’s presence
-Dean’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-Dean’s credibility
-President’s defense of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
The President and Haig left at 1:47 pm.