Conversation: 914-008
Prev: 914-007 Next: 914-009Start Date: 9-May-1973 9:40 AM
End Date: 9-May-1973 10:02 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 9, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:40 am to 10:02 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 914-008 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 914-8
Date: May 9, 1973
Time: 9:40 am - 10:02 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Ziegler’s forthcoming call to Henry E. Petersen
President’s schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 10:02 am.
President’s meeting with staff member
-George P. Shultz
-Haig’s concern
Watergate
-White House counterattack
-John W. Dean, III
-John B. Connally
-William Proxmire’s statement
-Press activity
-Spiro T. Agnew’s suitability
-Connally
-Dean
-Documents
-Possible statements
-Possible documents from H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D.
Ehrlichman
-Documents
-Content
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 914-8 (cont’d)
-Executive privilege
-Dean and Ervin Committee
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s forthcoming meeting with [Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”)
Rose
-Donald E. Santarelli
-Relationship with Dean
-Edward L. Morgan
-President’s previous conversation with Haldeman
-Executive privilege
-Haldeman’s notes
-Leonard Garment
-President’s papers
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Staff members’ notes
-Haldeman’s notes
-Haig’s conversation with Garment
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Executive privilege
-Possible public statement
-Executive privilege
-Extent
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Immunity
-Possible delay
-Lawyers for Haldeman and John N. Mitchell
-Buzhardt [?], John J. Wilson, Garment
-Justice Department
-Executive privilege
-Possible effect on Mitchell
-Possible effect on Dean
-Possible actions by Attorney General
-Garment
-Executive privilege
-Extent
-Presentation of administration’s view
-Guidelines
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)
Conversation No. 914-8 (cont’d)
-Ervin Committee
-Grand jury
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Appearance of cover-up
-President’s papers
-National security
-Pentagon Papers
-New York Times
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Contents
-Congressmen, ambassadors
-Pentagon Papers
-White House investigation
-Mitchell’s knowledge
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Louis Marx, Eleanor Marx Ellsberg
-Effect of leaks on White House
-Ellsberg
-Effect on presidency
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Media handling
-Motives of participants
-President’s schedule
-Dean’s documents
-Pending legal action
-White House handling
-Removal of files from White House
-Dean
-Documents
Haig left at 10:02 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. December-2011)