Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 045-196
Date: Thursday, May 10, 1973 at 3:34 PM
Participants: Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Nixon, Richard M. (President)
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/045-196

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[0:00] General Haig calling you.
[0:04] Hello, Mr. President.
[0:06] I talked to Bazzard.
[0:08] He said that that is correct, that they had been meeting together.
[0:11] When the two lawyers came, Chappie said, I want to go upstairs and I want to sit in this.
[0:15] He went up and they brought Parker in.
[0:17] There were three of them.
[0:20] Then as soon as the two lawyers left, Chappie came back and joined them.
[0:24] When they came over to me, they conveyed the impression that they had all been in on it.
[0:29] Didn't do it intentionally.
[0:31] They heard that Chappie was not in the meeting.
[0:32] No, he was not.
[0:33] Well, that's the only good thing that concerned Bob a little bit.
[0:37] Right.
[0:37] Now, I think there's little nerves here and mistrust should not be.
[0:42] I know, I know, because we know Chappie's honest.
[0:44] He's totally honest.
[0:46] I don't think Bob was in front of him, but he just thought that Garment had indicated that Chappie was there and Garment shouldn't have.
[0:52] Yeah, well, I, you know, you couldn't have drawn any other impression because they had a consensus view on this problem.
[0:58] Sure, sure, but he shouldn't have told you the chap he was on a meeting if he did tell you that.
[1:01] Well, I'm not even sure that he did.
[1:03] Oh, I see.
[1:04] They said that they conveyed that impression they didn't mean to.
[1:07] Okay.
[1:08] Right, sir.