Conversation: 911-031
Prev: 911-030 Next: 911-032Start Date: Thursday, May 3, 1973 4:18 PM
End Date: Thursday, May 3, 1973 4:24 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 3, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:18 pm to 12:24 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 911-031 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 911-31
Date: May 3, 1973
Time: 12:18 pm - 12:24 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and an unknown man.
President’s schedule
-George P. Shultz
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:18 pm.
Kissinger’s previous press briefing
-Question on Vietnam
-David R. Young
-Security investigations
Haig entered at 12:18 pm.
Kissinger’s schedule
-Telephone call
-Kissinger’s staff
-Conversation with David Packard
-Money
-John C. Stennis
Kissinger left at 12:19 pm.
Haig
-Role on White House staff
Watergate
-Sherman Adams and Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Compared with the President and John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”)
Haldeman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2012)
Conversation No. 911-31 (cont’d)
-President’s speech, April 30, 1973
Haig
-Possible Chief of Staff appointment
-Military career
-Staff management
-Shultz
-Spiro T. Agnew and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Military rank
-Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster
-Handling
-Haig’s forthcoming meeting with William P. Clements
-Temporary assignment
Kissinger [?]
Watergate
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
Haig left at 12:24 pm.