Conversation: 439-011
Prev:  439-010 Next: 439-012Start Date: 21-May-1973 12:40 PM
End Date: 21-May-1973 1:10 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On May 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:40 pm to 1:10 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 439-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 439-11 Date: May 21, 1973 Time: 12:40 pm - 1:10 pm Location: Old Executive Office Building President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Watergate -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper [statements about Watergate investigation, May 22, 1973] -President’s meeting with unknown man -Criteria -John D. Ehrlichman -Henry E. Petersen -President’s meeting with L. Patrick Gray, III -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation -Phraseology and content -Haig’s meeting with Raymond K. Price, Jr. -Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s and Richard M. Helms’s meeting with Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -President’s motives -Plumbers -President’s role and responsibility -Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson -President’s knowledge -Funds for defendants -Herbert W. Kalmbach -Clemency -Dirty tricks -Petersen -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. -John W. Dean III -7- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. August-2011) Conversation 439-11 (cont’d) -Comments regarding Petersen’s knowledge of Daniel Ellsberg break-in -Ehrlichman -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper -Phraseology and content -Ellsberg break-in -President’s knowledge of E. Howard Hunt’s involvement -President’s cooperation with William M. Byrne -President’s instructions to Petersen -National security -Walters’s memoranda of conversations [memcons] -President’s meeting with Gray -FBI investigation -Executive privilege -Documents and testimony -Charles W. Colson’s files -Location -Haig’s conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper -Content and phraseology -National security -Haldeman and Ehrlichman -President’s role and responsibility -President’s orders to Richard G. Kleindienst regarding Ellsberg break-in -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper -Executive privilege -Executive privilege -Possible demands for Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s notes -President’s papers -White House staff members’ testimony -President’s conversation with Petersen -National security -Ehrlichman -Hunt -8- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. August-2011) Conversation 439-11 (cont’d) -Ehrlichman -Allegations regarding role -National security -Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Colson -Protection of President -Dean -Role -Knowledge regarding implementation of Huston Plan -March 1972 awareness of plan -National security -President’s knowledge -Break-in -Ehrlichman -Funds for defendants -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper -Possible Congressional reaction -Editing -Petersen -Haldeman and Ehrlichman -Patrick J. Buchanan -Ronald L. Ziegler -Bryce N. Harlow’s role on White House staff -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper -President’s schedule -Content -Leak -Study -Attachment -Huston Plan -Compared with Pentagon Papers -Dean -Role on White House staff as counsel -Walters -Ellsberg break-in -Immunity -9- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. August-2011) Conversation 439-11 (cont’d) -Dean -Ervin Committee hearings -Schedule Haig left at 1:10 pm.