Conversation: 439-022
Prev: 439-021 Next: 439-023Start Date: Monday, May 21, 1973 8:55 PM
End Date: Monday, May 21, 1973 9:25 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; [Unknown person(s)]; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Sanchez, ManoloRecording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On May 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, unknown person(s), Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:55 pm to 5:25 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 439-022 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 439-22
Date: May 21, 1973
Time: 4:55 pm - 5:25 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Watergate
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper [statements about Watergate investigation,
May 22, 1973]
-Content and phraseology
-Funds for defendants
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation 439-22 (cont’d)
-President’s conversation with John W. Dean III,
March 21
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s demand
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files
-Story regarding G. Gordon Liddy, May 21
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Content and phraseology
-Funds for defendants
-Dean’s conversations at White House
-John D. Ehrlichman
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:55 pm.
Refreshment
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.
Watergate
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Content and phraseology
-President’s investigation
-President’s conversation with L[oius] Patrick Gray, III
-Gray’s conversation with Lt. Gen. Vernon A.
Walters
-FBI investigation
-National security
-President’s influence on investigation
-Clemency
-Funds for defendants
-Campaign practices
-President’s knowledge and approval of activities
-Special investigating unit
-National security
-President’s responsibility
-President’s speech, April 30
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation 439-22 (cont’d)
-President’s handling of resignations of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and
Ehrlichman
-President’s speech, April 30
-Effect
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Tactics
-President’s schedule
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Preparation
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 5:16 pm.
Haig’s previous meeting with economists
-Energy
Watergate
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Preparation
-President’s schedule
-Ervin Committee hearings
-James W. McCord’s forthcoming testimony
-Leonard Garment, Ziegler
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:16 pm.
President’s schedule
-Sequoia
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm.
Watergate
-White House response
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 campaign
-White House response
-Prospects for success
-Congress
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation 439-22 (cont’d)
-Possible effects
-Soviet Union
-United States
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Content and phraseology
-Funds for defendants
-President’s knowledge
-Haldeman
-$350,000
-President’s investigation
Haig’s schedule
Ziegler and Haig left at 5:25 pm.