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Conversation: 928-003

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Start Date: 25-May-1973 10:10 AM

End Date: 25-May-1973 10:24 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haig, Alexander M., Jr.

Recording Device: Oval Office

928-003.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 25, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:10 am and 10:24 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 928-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 928-3

Date: May 25, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:10 am and 10:24 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

      Florida

      Prisoners of war [POWs] dinner 

            -POW release         

            -POW wives         

            -President’s performance       

                  -Tables
                  -Autographs
            -Statements of POWs and families
            -Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope, John Wayne, Vic Damone, and James (“Jimmy”) Stewart
                  -Statements on POW release         

                  -Perspective on Watergate       

            -Press reaction        

                  -Positivity        

            -President’s statement on national security 

            -Television [TV] coverage        

                  -Live coverage       

                  -Children’s program

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             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. August-2011)

                                                     Conversation No. 928-3 (cont’d)

           -Dick Cavett
     -Paul W. Keyes’s role
     -Stage presence
     -Preparedness or performers
           -Stature         

           -Keyes         

           -Hope        

     -Audience
     -Reaction to statement regarding December 1972 bombing
           -Crucial moment
           -Response in US
                 -Difficulty     

           -North Vietnam reaction      

                 -Treaty of POWs

                       -Prison guards     


President’s schedule
      -Henry A. Kissinger
            -Briefing

Haig’s schedule
     -Florida
           -Haig’s wife
           -Accommodations
                -Rest

Watergate
     -Haig’s appointment
           -Duration
     -Cabinet
     -Briefing
           -Ronald L. Ziegler

John B. Connally
     -Operator
     -Trip to New York
                                                -8-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. August-2011)

                                                           Conversation No. 928-3 (cont’d)

     President’s schedule
           -Cabinet meeting
           -Politicians
                  -Relaying problems to the President
           -Forthcoming conversation with Haig
                  -Bryce N. Harlow
                        -Conflict of interest
                             -President’s reaction
           -Role on White House staff
                  -Advisor

Haig left at an unknown time before 10:24 am.