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Start Date: 16-May-1972 9:48 AM

End Date: 16-May-1972 9:50 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; 

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:52:06

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:57:39

725a.mp3

725b.mp3

725c.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:48 am to 9:50 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 725-013 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 725-13

Date: May 16, 1972
Time: 9:48 am - 9:50 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

       Vietnam
           -President's previous speech on the blockade
                 -West Point
                       -Haig's son's [Brian Haig’s] report
                            -President's retelling to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                 -[Dwight] David Eisenhower II's report
                       -USS Albany
                 -West Point
                       -Response
                            -Duration
                            -Reasons

       President's schedule
           -Forthcoming meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Haig left.
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