Conversation: 923-002
Prev: 923-001 Next: 923-003Start Date: 19-May-1973 10:17 AM
End Date: 19-May-1973 10:48 AM
Participants:
Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Nixon, Richard M. (President);Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 19, 1973, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Alexander P. Butterfield, and President Richard M. Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:17 am and 10:48 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 923-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 923-2
Date: May 19, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:17 am and 10:48 am
Location: Oval Office
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 923-2 (cont’d)
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
President’s schedule
The President entered and Butterfield left at 10:48 am.
Weather
Israel
-Four year program
-President’s view
-Delay
-Concessions
-Haig’s view
-Cut-off
Watergate
-Special Prosecutor
-Haig’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-Archibald Cox
-Compared to Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
-Richard M. Helms
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Huston Plan
-Release of documents
-[William] Stuart Symington
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Television [TV]
-Democrats’ reaction
-Rhodesian chrome
-Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] Director
-Joseph A. Califano, Jr.’s call to Haig
-Lyndon B. Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover
-Military background
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 923-2 (cont’d)
-Haig’s conversation with Richardson
-Walters
-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
-Compared with affidavit
-[Richard G.] Stilwell [?]
-Walters
-Stilwell
-Background
-Selection process
-Stilwell
-Califano and [First name unknown] Lake [?]
Califano
-Telephone call to Haig
-Johnson
Watergate
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell’s possible statement
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-President’s possible meeting with Congressional leaders
-Possible TV speech
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Domestic intelligence
-Wiretaps
-Hoover
-Clemency
-James R. Hoffa
-Charles W. Colson
-Funds for defendants
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Informing President concerning $350,000
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Informing President concerning Herbert W. Kalmbach
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 923-2 (cont’d)
-President’s knowledge
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and William O. Bittman
-Forthcoming White Paper
-White House staff opinion
-Haig, Ronald L. Ziegler and Bryce N. Harlow
-Preparation
-President’ schedule
-Possible meeting with Congressional leaders
-CIA
-Involvement
-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield
-Bay of Pigs
-Richard M. Helms’s conversation with President
-Helms
-Forthcoming testimony before Foreign Relations Committee
-Walters’s role in CIA
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Effect on John N. Mitchell
-Mitchell
-John W. Dean, III
-White House staff activities
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Involvement
-Ehrlichman
-Kalmbach
-Impeachment
-Possible White House response
-Effect
-Congressional interest
-Symington
-Senate Armed Services Committee
-Bella S. Abzug
-John C. Stennis
-Conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., May 18
-Wiretaps
-Edward Brooke
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 923-2 (cont’d)
-Compared with Charles Percy
-Helms
-Conversation with Haig
-President’s opinion of Helms
-Testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-CIA
-Loan of equipment to Hunt
-White House response
-Possible televised speech by President
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Briefing
-Haig
-Ziegler
-Buzhardt
-Impeachment
-Process
-Possible effect of vote
-Relationship to other actions during present administration
Haig left at an unknown time before 10:48 am.