Conversation: 917-028
Prev:  917-027 Next: 917-029Start Date: 14-May-1973 12:25 PM
End Date: 14-May-1973 12:35 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Higby, Lawrence M.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Lawrence M. Higby, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:25 pm to 12:35 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 917-028 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 917-28 Date: May 14, 1973 Time: 12:25 pm - 12:35 pm Location: Oval Office -32- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-2012) Conversation No. 917-28 (cont’d) The President met with Lawrence M. Higby. Watergate -President’s memoranda [memos] -Search results -Higby’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -President’s conversation with Rose Mary Woods -John W. Dean, III -Washington Post story -President’s note, March 12 -1972 campaign violence -Barry M. Goldwater -News summaries -Possible notation by the President -Bruce Kehrli -Procedures for dissemination -Kehrli’s possible testimony -Executive privilege -Motives of participants -Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Dean -Higby’s conversation with Gordon C. Strachan -Intelligence activities of Committee to Reelect the President [CRP] -Wiretaps -$350,000 -Haldeman’s motives -Strachan’s conversation with Higby -Higby’s subsequent conversation with Haldeman -Haldeman’s orders -Dean -Strachan’s delivery -President’s meeting with Dean and Haldeman, March 21 -“Cancer on the Presidency” -E. Howard Hunt’s threats on money requests -William O. Bittman -Dean -President’s confidence -Ehrlichman and Haldeman -33- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-2012) Conversation No. 917-28 (cont’d) -Stay with Higby at Palm Springs over Christmas, 1972 -Conversations -Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder -Magruder -Perjury -Dean -Possible immunity -Report -Briefings -Dean’s role as White House counsel -Ronald L. Ziegler -Haldeman’s grand jury testimony -Dean -Documents -Possible contents -Memos -President, Haldeman and Ehrlichman -Haldeman and Ehrlichman -Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony -Possible indictments -Vulnerabilities -Possible convictions -National security -William D. Ruckelshaus -White House staff stance -Compared with 1970 Cambodia reaction -President’s sympathies -Dean, Mitchell -Motives of participants Haig [?] enters at an unknown time before 12:35 pm. Higby left at 12:35 pm. -34- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-2012) Conversation No. 917-29 (cont’d)