Conversation: 916-016
Prev: 916-015 Next: 916-017Start Date: 11-May-1973 12:03 PM
End Date: 11-May-1973 12:43 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Trudeau, Pierre E.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 11, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, unknown person(s), Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Pierre E. Trudeau met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:03 pm and 12:43 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 916-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 916-16
Date: May 11, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:03 pm and 12:43 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown man.
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s location
Haig entered and the unknown man left at 12:07 pm.
President’s previous conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Secretary of State position
-Compared with George P. Shultz as Secretary of Treasury
Watergate
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Recall by Dr. James R. Schlesinger from Far East trip
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] involvement
-John W. Dean, III
-Meeting with Haig
-Memoranda of conversations [Memcons]
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Dean
-Schlesinger’s orders
-Haig’s subsequent meeting with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Haig’s orders regarding memcons
-National security
-Memcons
-Dean’s actions
-CIA cover
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2012)
Conversation No. 916-16 (cont’d)
-Defendants
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s actions
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
-CIA
-Mexico
-Money
-Meeting with Gray
-CIA involvement
-Gray’s meeting with the President, July, 1972
-Ehrlichman
-Meetings with Dean
-President’s orders to Gray
The President talked with Pierre E. Trudeau between 12:11 pm and 12:13 pm.
[Conversation No. 916-16A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 46-2]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Walters
-Memcons
-Dean’s efforts regarding defendants
-CIA
-Compared to Ehrlichman
-President’s conversation with Gray
-Walters
-Memcons
-Effects
-Dean, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and the President
-Buzhardt
-Possible release
-Haig’s telephone call to Schlesinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2012)
Conversation No. 916-16 (cont’d)
-Haig’s orders to Buzhardt
-Lawyers for Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible conversation with Henry E. Petersen
-Possible testimony
-President’s knowledge
-Wiretaps
-Daniel Ellsberg trial
-Records
-W. Matthew Byrne’s request
-Location
-FBI’s forthcoming interview of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Executive privilege
-Possible release of conversation between Ellsberg and Morton Halperin
-Kissinger
-National security
-Buzhardt
-William D. Ruckelshaus’s desire to talk with Haig
-W. Mark Felt’s leaks from FBI
-Joseph C. Kraft and Henry Brandon
-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Mitchell
-Reasons for wiretaps
-Discharge of Felt
-Discharge of Felt
-CIA
-Dean
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Walters’s possible testimony
-Meetings with Dean
-President
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Walters
-Memcons
-Possible testimony
-National security
-Wiretaps
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2012)
Conversation No. 916-16 (cont’d)
-Conversation between Halperin and Ellsberg
-Kissinger’s view
-Buzhardt
-Haig’s access
-Buzhardt
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Conversation between Halperin and Ellsberg
-Possible release
-Ruckelshaus
-Kissinger
-Byrne
-Timing
-Halperin’s tenure with National Security Council [NSC]
-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement
-Walters
-Possible testimony
-Petersen
-Ellsberg case
-Memcons
-Schlesinger’s knowledge
-CIA knowledge
-Gray’s testimony, May 10
-Possible testimony
-Effects
-Conversation with Haig
-Conversations with the President
-Meetings
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman, July 1972
-Suggestions concerning Gray
-Ehrlichman’s possible motive
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Memcons
-Possible copies
-Dean
-Location
-CIA techniques
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2012)
Conversation No. 916-16 (cont’d)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National security]
[Duration: 10 s ]
LATIN AMERICA
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Watergate
-Walters
-Motives of Haldeman and Ehrlichman for meetings
-Ehrlichman
-Possible conversation with Haig
-Buzhardt’s view
-President’s possible conversations
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Buzhardt’s attempts to contact lawyers for Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-FBI’s forthcoming contacts with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Memcons
-Wiretaps
-Wiretaps
-Release of conversation between Halperin and Ellsberg
-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement
-Haig’s contacts with Lawrence M. Higby
-Higby as conduit to Haldeman
-President’s possible conversation with Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Possible testimony regarding the President
-Possible conversation with the President
-Possible testimony regarding the President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2012)
Conversation No. 916-16 (cont’d)
-Executive privilege
-Possible motive
-Hunt
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Buzhardt
-Walters
-Memcons
-Possible testimony
-Walters
-Possible testimony
-Gray’s testimony
-Ehrlichman’s and Haldeman’s testimony
-Ehrlichman’s culpability
-Ehrlichman’s possible testimony
-Walters’s possible testimony
-Meeting with Gray
-Ehrlichman’s possible testimony
-Meeting with Walters
-Hunt
-Walters’s possible testimony
-President’s role
-Dean’s actions
-President’s involvement
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Public perception
-Location
-Higby and Stephen B. Bull
-Wiretap tapes
-Wiretap tapes
-Haldeman
-Haig and Buzhardt
Haig left at 12:43 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2012)
Conversation No. 916-17 (cont’d)