Conversation: 045-203
Prev: 045-202 Next: 045-204Start Date: Thursday, May 10, 1973 8:54 PM
End Date: Thursday, May 10, 1973 9:00 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On May 10, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 4:54 pm to 5:00 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-203 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 45-203
Date: May 10, 1973
Time: 4:54 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-Indictments of John N. Mitchell and Maurice H. Stans
President’s schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Press coverage
-Meeting with Kissinger, Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft, and Haig
-Kissinger, William P. Rogers
-Rogers’s trip
Watergate
-Stans
-Mitchell
-Indictments
-Perjury
Press coverage of President
Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s telephone call to Haig
-William E. Colby appointment
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] directorship
-Unknown candidate
-Background
-William C. Sullivan
-Sullivan
-Qualifications
-Henry E. Petersen
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Possible meeting with Haig
-Loyalty
-Early work with White House
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 45-203 (cont’d)
-Jackson’s view
-Opposition to Hoover
-Possible meeting with Haig
-Comparison with William M. Byrne
-Bipartisan support
-Colby
Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Comparison with Elliot L. Richardson
-Toughness
Watergate
-Rogers’s call to Haig
-Earl Warren’s response
-Warren E. Burger
-Tom C. Clark