Conversation: 926-004
Prev:  926-003 Next: 926-005Start Date: 23-May-1973 10:20 AM
End Date: 23-May-1973 10:53 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 23, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:20 am to 10:53 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 926-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 926-4 Date: May 23, 1973 Time: 10:20 am - 10:53 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. President’s Republican Congressional leadership meeting Watergate -5- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. August-2011) Conversation No. 926-4 (cont’d) -White House response -White Paper [Statements about Watergate Investigation, May 22, 1973] -National security Vietnam peace settlement negotiation -Henry A. Kissinger -Report, May 22 -President’s knowledge -Negotiations with South Vietnam -Saigon -William Sullivan -Note from President -Forthcoming communique -Timing -Kissinger’s statement -North Vietnam’s statement -South Vietnam -Negotiations -President’s opinion -US aid to South Vietnam Bryce N. Harlow -Role on White House staff -Conversation with the President, May 21 -Counselor to President -William E. Timmons’s role -Congressional relations -George H. W. Bush -Haig’s role -Politics -Bush -Barry M. Goldwater -Spiro T. Agnew -Announcement -Problem -Stock option -Timing -6- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. August-2011) Conversation No. 926-4 (cont’d) -Conversation with President -Announcement -Part-time -July Watergate -Congressional reaction -Carl T. Curtis -Ervin Committee hearings -Ervin Committee hearings -Testimony, May 22 -John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield and James W. McCord, Jr. -McCord -Testimony -James R. Schlesinger -Ervin Committee hearings -White House response -White Paper [Statements about Watergate investigation, May 22, 1973] -Possible allegations regarding the President -John W. Dean III -David R. Young -Memoranda of conversation [memcons] -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Charles W. Colson -White House response -White Paper -Effect -Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memcons -Dean -Haldeman and Ehrlichman -William L. Safire’s opinion -Call to Haig, May 22 -Possible press conference -President’s possible testimony before Ervin Committee -President’s conversation with Harlow, May 22 -Bush -7- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. August-2011) Conversation No. 926-4 (cont’d) President’s schedule -Forthcoming economic meeting -Oil -George P. Shultz -Proposal for Haig -Testimony Energy -Program planning -Shultz -Cabinet members -Roy L. Ash -Review by Haig -Peter M. Flanigan -Role -Confidence by Haig -Concerns President’s schedule -Economic meeting -Prisoners of war [POWs] -Briefing -Evening at White House -Cabinet meeting -Length -Economic meeting -Timing -Recommendations White House staff -Harlow’s role -Flanigan’s role Hugh Scott’s note to President -State Department -[David] Kenneth Rush -Haig’s possible meeting with William P. Rogers -8- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. August-2011) Conversation No. 926-4 (cont’d) -Kissinger Kissinger -Possible statements -Summit -Georges J. R. Pompidou -National security -White House response -White Paper -Defense Soviet summit -Postponement -President’s opponents -New York Times -Leonid I. Brezhnev Watergate -Effect on people -Harlow’s view -Compared to Cambodia -White House response -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s role -Leonard Garment’s role -Cover-up -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] -Funds for defendants -Funds for defendants -President’s knowledge -Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s knowledge -Cover-up -Dean’s conversation with the President, March 21 -President’s response -Dean’s role -John N. Mitchell -Dean’s conversation with the President, March 21 -Content -9- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. August-2011) Conversation No. 926-4 (cont’d) -G[eorge] Gordon Liddy’s conversation with Dean, June 19, 1972 -CIA -Clemency -Dean’s role -Dean’s conversation with the President, March 21 -White House response -White Paper -Effect -Walters’s memcons -Possible release -Huston Plan -Ziegler’s conversation with President -Recommendations -Richard M. Helms, J. Edgar Hoover, Adm. Noel Gayler, and Donald Bennett -Elliot L. Richardson -Confirmation -Hugh Scott’s efforts -Daniel Ellsberg and John V. Tunney -Ellsberg wiretap -Scott -White House response -White Paper -Future allegations -Ziegler -Memcons -President’s schedule -Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. -Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Colson -Future allegations -Dean -President’s schedule -White House response -White Paper -Dean -Possible allegations -10- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. August-2011) Conversation No. 926-4 (cont’d) -Memcons of meetings with President -Conversation with President, March 21 -Blackmail -Administration’s response -Helms’s testimony -Schlesinger -William D. Ruckelshaus -W. Mark Felt -Termination -Notice -Confidence -Source of heat -Comparison to Dean -Wiretaps -White House response -White Paper -Content and phraseology -Plumbers -President’s orders -President’s responsibility -Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Krogh Haig left at 10:53 am.