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Conversation: 920-003

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Start Date: 16-May-1973 4:55 PM

End Date: 16-May-1973 5:22 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Sanchez, Manolo[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Oval Office

920-003.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 16, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Manolo Sanchez, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:55 pm to 5:22 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 920-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 920-3

Date: May 16, 1973
Time: 4:55 pm - 5:22 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

       President’s meeting with George P. Shultz

       President’s schedule
              -Sequoia
              -Ronald L. Ziegler
              -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

       Watergate       

             -Huston Plan       

                    -Implementation          


Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:55 pm.

       Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:57 pm.

       Watergate
             -Huston Plan
             -Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]
                    -Possible release
                    -National Security Administration [NSA]
             -Tom C. Huston
                    -Conversation between Buzhardt and Haig
                                             -4-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. August-2011)

                                                              Conversation No. 920-3 (cont’d)

                     -Conversation with Buzhardt
                     -Plan
                           -Implementation
                           -Relationships
                                   -Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
                                   -Watergate break-in


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 

[National security]

[Duration: 11s ] 



       INTELLIGENCE


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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       Watergate      

             -John W. Dean, III 

             -Huston Plan         


Buzhardt entered at 4:57 pm.

       Watergate
             -President’s conversation with Haig
                    -Implementation of plan
                    -Conversation with Buzhardt
                            -Files
                            -Dean’s role in domestic intelligence
                            -Robert C. Mardian
                                   -Activities with Dean
                              -5-

    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                      Tape Subject Log
                      (rev. August-2011)

                                              Conversation No. 920-3 (cont’d)

              -Memoranda
              -John N. Mitchell
                     -J. Edgar Hoover
-Plan
       -President’s meeting with Richard M. Helms, Adm. Noel Gayler, and
        Hoover
       -Buzhardt’s conversations           

               -NSA          

               -Samuel C. Phillips           

               -Louis W. Tordella           

               -Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA]

                       -Vincent P. DePoix        

       -Mardian and James R. Schlesinger 

-Huston’s conversation with Buzhardt
       -Departure from staff
               -Hoover
-Plan
       -Implementation
               -Dean and Mardian
                       -Intelligence activities
               -Break-in of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office 

       -Mardian          

       -Search of files         

-Break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
       -Krogh and plumbers
               -Connection with Huston Plan
-White House response to Huston Plan revelations
-Huston Plan
       -Dean
       -Role in other activities
-Break-in of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office
       -Krogh
               -Possible legal penalties
-Huston Plan
       -Security classification
               -Possible leaks
       -Implementation
                                             -6-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. August-2011)

                                                              Conversation No. 920-3 (cont’d)

                              -Huston
                              -NSA
                      -Possible White House response
                      -[William] Stuart Symington’s intervention with Ervin Committee
                              -Sensitivity of document
                      -Compared with plumbers
                      -NSA, Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], Federal Bureau of Investigation
                       [FBI], Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA], and Internal Revenue Service
                       [IRS]
                      -Purpose
                              -May Day demonstrations
                                      -1970 and 1971
                      -Buzhardt’s actions          

                              -Mardian         

                              -Tordella          

                              -Schlesinger         

                      -Buzhardt’s forthcoming call to William C. Sullivan

       President’s schedule

Buzhardt left at 5:13 pm.

       Watergate       

             -Huston Plan         

             -Dean        

                    -Activities
                            -Suborning perjury
                                    -Jeb S[tuart] Magruder
                            -Funds for defendants
                    -Motives
                            -Removal of documents
             -Huston Plan
                    -Possible national reaction
                    -Possible allegations
                    -Implementation
                    -President’s announcement regarding military activities
                    -Possible press coverage
                                              -7-


                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                       Tape Subject Log 

                                       (rev. August-2011)

                                                             Conversation No. 920-3 (cont’d)

                     -Implementation         

               -Dean       


       Congressional relations
             -Bill on confirmation
                     -President’s veto
                     -William E. Timmons
                     -Shultz’s view
                     -Roy L. Ash’s view
                     -Views on sustaining possible veto
                             -Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott, and Frank Burton

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:13 pm.

       Request for meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm.

       Haig’s mood

Haig left at 5:22 pm.