Conversation: 921-001
Prev:  920-015 Next: 921-002Start Date: 17-May-1973 8:20 AM
End Date: 17-May-1973 8:40 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; [Unknown person(s)]; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 17, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:20 am to 8:40 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 921-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 921-1 Date: May 17, 1973 Time: 8:20 am - 8:40 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Staff meeting Watergate -Informing people of Huston Plan -William D. Ruckelshaus -Henry E. Petersen -James R. Schlesinger -Executive privilege -John D. Ehrlichman’s conversations with Richard G. Kleindienst -National security -Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s conversations -John L. McClellan’s statements -Special Prosecutor -Warren M. Christopher -Barry M. Goldwater’s statement regarding President’s leadership -Haig’s possible call to Goldwater -Huston Plan -Termination -President -J. Edgar Hoover’s view -Clyde A. Tolson’s actions -William C. Sullivan -Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -John N. Mitchell’s recommendation -Sullivan’s call -President’s approval -Haldeman’s role -Termination -2- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. August-2011) Conversation No. 921-1 (cont’d) -Meeting in President’s office -Hoover and Tolson -Possible White House response -Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. -Implementation Public relations [PR] -President’s election reform proposal -Television [TV] coverage -Price freezes Watergate -White House response -Daniel Ellsberg -J. Strom Thurmond and Edmund S. Muskie -Howard K. Smith’s TV comment, 5/16 -Wiretaps -Smith [?] -Haig -Henry A. Kissinger -National Security Council [NSC] staff -President’s forthcoming meeting with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. -Possible White House response -Release of documents -Walters’s documents -National security -Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons] -Haldeman -L[ouis] Patrick Gray -Possible release -Possible White House response -Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s possible response An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:20 am. Buzhardt -3- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. August-2011) Conversation No. 921-1 (cont’d) The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:40 am. -Press coverage President’s schedule -Haig and Ronald L. Ziegler Haig left at 8:40 am.