Conversation: 915-001
Prev: 914-010 Next: 915-002Start Date: 10-May-1973 7:59 AM
End Date: 10-May-1973 8:29 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 10, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 7:59 am to 8:29 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 915-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 915-1
Date: May 10, 1973
Time: 7:59 am - 8:29 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-News coverage
-Motives
-Public reaction
-Daniel Ellsberg’s actions compared to handling of cables
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Conversation with the President
-Possible meeting with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Charles W. Colson
-Possible meeting with Buzhardt
-Papers
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 7:59 am.
President’s schedule
-Stephen B. Bull and Haig
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:29 am.
Watergate
-Colson
-Papers
-Haldeman’s papers
-Executive privilege
-White House possession
-Buzhardt to research
-Papers of Colson, Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Buzhardt
-2-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2012)
Conversation No. 915-1 (cont’d)
-News report regarding John W. Dean, III
-Implication of the President
-President’s conversation with Dean and Haldeman, March 21
-Clemency and money issues
-President’s conversation with Haldeman, May 9
-Content
-Blackmail
-Clemency
-Money
-John N. Mitchell
-Conversation with Dean
-Haldeman’s testimony
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and Ehrlichman
-Plumbers
-William O. Bittman
-President’s reaction
-Haldeman’s possible testimony
-Application of executive privilege
-Testimony on conversations and release of papers
President’s conversations with Haldeman
-Range of subjects
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Possible problems
-Haldeman’s papers
-Possible effects of release
-World reaction
Buzhardt’s schedule
-Leonard Garment
Personnel appointments
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Confirmation as Attorney General
-Warren E. Hearnes
-Missouri Governorship
-Presidency of Governors Association
-3-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2012)
Conversation No. 915-1 (cont’d)
-Lawyer
-Partisanship
-Possible recommendation as Special Prosecutor
-Democrat
-Special Prosecutor
-Issue of line of authority
-Richardson’s confirmation
-Stance during hearings
-Impact of possible disapproval
-Secretary of Defense
-Senate Judiciary Committee
-James O. Eastland
-William E. Timmons
-William P. Rogers
-Haig
-Cabinet meeting
-Haig’s previous conversation with Richardson
-Richardson’s reaction
-Timing of confirmation
Watergate
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming meeting with John C. Stennis
-Stennis
-Ervin Committee
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Witnesses’ possible testimony
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell
-President
-Possible departure from office
-White House reaction
-Effect on White House staff and Cabinet
-President’s speech, May 9
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Special Prosecutor
-Hearns
-William C. Sullivan
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] activities
-4-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2012)
Conversation No. 915-1 (cont’d)
-Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
-Daniel Ellsberg
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Actions
-Dean’s documents
-Dean
-Meeting with the President and Haldeman, September 19, 1972
-Content
-News story regarding statements to investigators
-White House response
-Buzhardts forthcoming meeting with Stennis
-Senate hearings
Haig left at 8:29 am.