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Conversation 436-002

TapeTape 436StartMonday, May 14, 1973 at 12:59 PMEndMonday, May 14, 1973 at 1:15 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
AudioNARA Description

On May 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:59 pm and 1:15 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 436-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 436-2

Date: May 14, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:59 pm and 1:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     Watergate
          -Ronald L. Ziegler [?]
          -William D. Ruckelshaus’s statement
          -Forthcoming White House statement
                -White House cooperation with Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                       (rev. May-2012)

                       -John D. Ehrlichman
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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And that, like Senator Robinson said, is very important.
First of all, there's been total cooperation with the White House and the Department of Defense.
I'm not going to tell you anything.
After all, he puts in a self-serving statement there that the Bureau in conducting this investigation was dispatched onto a ship.
The Bureau, you know the Bureau has been covering its own tracks, but after all that, it wasn't meant for any cooperation.
I mean, after all, Ehrlichman wasn't here.
Yeah.
Well, I think there should be a sentence.
As soon as this matter is brought to the... the problem is brought to the White House, a search profile is made in the dispatch, and the... right?
Do you think a sentence could go into that, but could not as of too late?
Put in that kind of sentence, okay?
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