Conversation: 901-002
Prev: 901-001 Next: 901-003Start Date: 18-Apr-1973 5:20 PM
End Date: 18-Apr-1973 5:33 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On April 18, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:20 pm to 5:33 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 901-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 901-2
Date: April 18, 1973
Time: 5:20 pm - 5:33 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Watergate
-Preservation of the Presidency
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Possible resignations
-Haldeman
-Unidentified co-conspirators
-John N. Mitchell, Jeb Stuart Magruder, Frederick C. LaRue, Paul L. O’Brien
-Haldeman, Gordon C. Strachan, Ehrlichman
-Effect
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible departures
-Effect on Presidency
-Haldeman
-Role
-Effect of departure
-Assertion of President’s authority
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler, April 18, 1973
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:20 pm.
President’s schedule
-Helicopter for Camp David
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:33 pm.
Watergate
-Continued revelations
-Magruder, John W. Dean, III
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 901-2 (cont’d)
-Target
-Effect on Presidency
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Replacements
-John B. Connally
-Domestic side
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Military role
-Bureaucrat
-William P. Rogers’s departure
-Timing
-Cabinet
-Tightening of administration
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Possible appointment
-Loyalty
-Preservation of Presidency
-James T. Lynn
-Possible appointment
-Loyalty
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Compared to Rush
-Domestic orientation
-Kissinger’s conversation with Ziegler, April 18, 1973
-White House staff departures
-Strachan, Dean
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:20 pm.
Message to President
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:33 pm.
-Kissinger’s conversation with Ziegler, April 18, 1973
-Resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Behind power curve
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 901-2 (cont’d)
-Subordinates
-Responsibility
-President’s statement, April 17, 1973
-Unindicted persons
-Suspensions
Kissinger left at 5:33 pm.