Conversation: 045-217
Prev: 045-216 Next: 045-218Start Date: Thursday, May 10, 1973 10:40 PM
End Date: Thursday, May 10, 1973 10:48 PM
Participants:
Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Nixon, Richard M. (President)Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On May 10, 1973, Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone from 6:40 pm to 6:48 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-217 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 45-217
Date: May 10, 1973
Time: 6:40 pm - 6:48 pm
Location: White House Telephone
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President.
Congressional relations
-President’s telephone call to William E. Timmons
-Legislation in House of Representatives
-Effect of vote
-Damage limitation
-Timmons’s role
-Timmons
-State Department, Defense Department
-Responsibility
-Haig’s meeting with Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford
-Effect of legislative setback
-North Vietnam
-Hanoi
-Repetition
-Defense Department
-Drafting of legislation
-Comptroller
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 45-217 (cont’d)
-House Republicans
-Votes
-Defections
-Democrats
-Timmons’s office
-Assistance
-[First name unknown] Saunders
-Defense Department
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
President’s schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Haig
-Work with John B. Connally
-Foreign Policy
Cabinet meeting, May 10, 1973
-Tone
Connally’s schedule
-Lawrence M. Higby [?]
-Work for White House
-Kissinger briefing
President’s situation
-Press reaction
-Haig’s meeting with press
-Cabinet meeting
-Appointments of Dr. James R. Schlesinger and William E. Colby