Conversation: 913-001
Prev: 912-019 Next: 913-002Start Date: 8-May-1973 4:31 PM
End Date: 8-May-1973 5:16 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Sanchez, Manolo; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 8, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Manolo Sanchez, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:31 pm and 5:16 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 913-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 913-1
Date: May 8, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:31 pm and 5:16 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
President’s schedule
-Pen [?]
-Weather [?]
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered and Bull left at 4:32 pm.
Watergate
-Haig’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-John W. Dean, III’s papers
-Justice Department
-Statement
An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez ?] entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm.
Refreshment
The unknown person [Manolo Sanchez ?] left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.
Watergate
-Haig’s conversation with Richardson
-Dean’s papers
-Copies
-Cabinet changes
-Confirmation hearings
-Attorney General
-Special Prosecutor
-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Travel to Washington, DC
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2012)
Conversation No. 913-1 (cont’d)
-President’s previous conversation with Richard A. Moore
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Attorneys for John N. Mitchell, John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”)
Haldeman
-Dean
-Possible testimony
-Rose
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible injunction
-Immunity
-Immunity for Dean
-Executive privilege
-Grand jury
-Effect on Haldeman
-Effect on judicial process
-Executive privilege
-Perception of indirect admission
-“Guilt of President”
-Grand jury testimony compared to Congressional testimony
-Guidelines for witnesses
-Leonard Garment
-Rose, Moore
-Judge John J. Sirica
-Dean
-Conversation with President and Haldeman, September 15, 1972
-Haig’s informing Haldeman
-Haldeman’s forthcoming grand jury
-Need for truth
-Dean
-Meeting with President and Haldeman, September 15, 1972
-Haldeman’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Possible effects of forthcoming testimony
-Possible statements
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming grand jury testimony
-Executive privilege
-White House strategy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2012)
Conversation No. 913-1 (cont’d)
-Garment
-Judgment
Legal Services Bill
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-President’s message to Agnew
Watergate
-Dean
-Possible immunity from judge
-Garment
-President’s schedule
-Dinner, May 9
-President’s talk
-Moore [?]
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm.
Senate’s schedule
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.
Watergate
-President’s talk
-Content
-Presidency
-Richardson
-Dean
-Possible testimony before Ervin Committee
-Executive privilege
-Application
-Guidance for grand jury witnesses
-President’s papers
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s possible testimony
-Documentary evidence in White House files
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2012)
Conversation No. 913-1 (cont’d)
-National security
-Administration response
-Moore
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Garment
-Rose
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan, Moore, Rose, Garment
-William P. Rogers
-Executive privilege
-Conversations with President regarding illegal activities
-National security
-Dean
-Immunity
-Presidency
-John B. Connally’s advice regarding price freeze
-Declaration of war
-Public mood
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible delays by administration
-Garment
-Possible injunction by lawyers for Mitchell and Haldeman
-Possible action by White House
-Grand jury indictments
-Richardson’s confirmation
Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-William E. Colby
Personnel Appointments
-William E. Colby
-Announcement
-Richardson’s confirmation
-Delay
-Recommendation
-Colby
-Domestic Council
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2012)
Conversation No. 913-1 (cont’d)
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] directorship
-Cole
-William E. Timmons
-List of nominees
-Timing of announcement
-Edward A. McCabe
-Letter to President
-Haig’s consultation with Bryce N. Harlow
-Usefulness
Watergate
-Dean
-Rogers
-Garment
-Executive privilege
-Grand jury
-Guidelines
-Ziegler [?]
-Ervin Committee
-Appearance of cover-up
-Defendants’ rights
-Richardson
-Richardson
-Confirmation hearings
-Dean
-Documents
-Attorney General’s demand
-Prosecutors
-Ownership
-Presidential papers
-Haldeman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Administration’s position
Haig left at 5:16 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2012)