Conversation: 920-013
Prev: 920-012 Next: 920-014Start Date: 16-May-1973 8:45 PM
End Date: 16-May-1973 9:33 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Buzhardt, J. Fred, Jr.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 16, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:45 pm to 9:33 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 920-013 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 920-13
Date: May 16, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:45 pm and 9:33 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
John B. Connally
-Meeting with Haig
Watergate
-White House reaction
J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s [?] location
President’s legal counsel
-Leonard Garment
-Sensitivity
-Buzhardt
-Garment’s reaction
-Garment
-Ability
Watergate
-Executive privilege
-Buzhardt’s view
-Charles W. Colson’s view
-White House response
-President’s opponents
-Goal
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 920-13 (cont’d)
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Henry A.
Kissinger, Haig and Ronald L. Ziegler
-President
-Wiretaps
-President’s role
-J. Edgar Hoover’s role
-Morton A. Halperin
-Kissinger’s role
-President’s role
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Purpose and implementation
-Kissinger
-Conversation with Haig, May 15
-Possible response
-President’s attention
Buzhardt entered at an unknown time after 8:45 pm.
Watergate
-Huston Plan
-Documentation
-Memorandum from Haldeman to Tom C. Huston
-Action memoranda
-Huston’s phone calls
-Haldeman’s memorandum
-Termination
-William C. Sullivan
-Louis W. Tordella
-Haldeman
-Huston’s conversation with Sullivan
-Sullivan’s role
-Sullivan’s reaction
-Clyde A. Tolson’s conversation with Hoover
-Hoover’s subsequent conversations
-John N. Mitchell and President
-President’s role
-Sullivan’s notes
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 920-13 (cont’d)
-Timing
-Sullivan
-Role
-Possible testimony
-Reaction
-Domestic intelligence
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National security]
[Duration: 1 m 56 s ]
INTELLIGENCE METHODS
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Watergate
-Domestic intelligence
-Noel Gayler
-Hoover
-Huston Plan
-Approval
-Termination
-Tordella’s notes
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray
-Visit to National Security Agency [NSA]
-Discussion with Tordella
-Tolson and Hoover
-Study
-Implementation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 920-13 (cont’d)
-Dean’s documents
-Possible White House response
-Implementation
-Approval
-President and H. R. Haldeman
-Buzhardt’s conversation with Haldeman
-Previous plan
-1967
-Compared to Huston Plan
-White House strategy
-Possible leak by Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Buzhardt
-Bernie Welles
-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Coordinating committee
-Possible leak by Ervin
-National security
-Timing
-Termination
-Possible testimony
-Tordella
-Implementation
-Possible evidence
-James R. Schlesinger
-Dean’s knowledge
-Possible White House response
-Hoover, Mitchell
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Ervin
-Possible leak from White House
-Possible White House response
-Timing
-Content
-Witnesses
-Tordella
-Sullivan
-Gray
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 920-13 (cont’d)
-Carter
-Gayler
-Donald V. Bennett
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 8:45 pm.
Schedule
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:33 pm.
Watergate
-Huston Plan
-Possible White House response
-Buchanan
-Gayler and Bennett
-Location
-Possible statements
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Huston Plan
-Huston’s memory
-Sullivan’s calls
-Termination
-Process
-Possible White House response
-Pre-Nixon administration activities
-Executive privilege
-Court cases on scope
-Credibility
-Ervin’s possible action
-Possible court action
-Grand Jury
-Ehrlichman’s testimony
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation
[memcons]
-Ehrlichman’s tapes
-Call to Richard G. Kleindienst, March 1973
-President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 920-13 (cont’d)
-Possible court order
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Helms, Walters and Haldeman
-Ehrlichman’s notes
-Purpose
-Walters’s memcons
-Possible sanitization for national security
-Justice Department handling of Daniel Ellsberg’s case
-Possible portrayal
-Executive privilege
-Beliefs regarding the President, Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Walters’s documents and Ehrlichman’s tape with Kleindienst
-John J. Sirica’s possible action
-John J. Wilson’s opinion
-Dean
-Use immunity
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible effects of television [TV]
-Dean’s opinion
-Forthcoming trials
-Possible effects
-President
-Others
-Indictments
-Henry E. Petersen’s view
-Possible indictments
-Evidence
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Charles W. Colson
-John N. Mitchell and Jeb S[tuart] Magruder
-Dean
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Walters’s memcons
-Possible implications
-Dean’s documents
-Ervin’s possible actions
-Possible White House response
-Domestic intelligence activities
-Implementation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 920-13 (cont’d)
-Unknown judge
-Intelligence committee
-Huston Plan
-Termination
-Bennett
-Gayler
-Possible testimony
Buzhardt left at an unknown time before 9:33 pm.
-Executive privilege
-Walters’s memcons
The President and Haig left at an unknown time before 9:33 pm.