Conversation: 917-028
Prev: 917-027 Next: 917-029Start Date: Monday, May 14, 1973 4:25 PM
End Date: Monday, May 14, 1973 4:35 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Higby, Lawrence M.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Lawrence M. Higby, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:25 pm to 12:35 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 917-028 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 917-28
Date: May 14, 1973
Time: 12:25 pm - 12:35 pm
Location: Oval Office
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 917-28 (cont’d)
The President met with Lawrence M. Higby.
Watergate
-President’s memoranda [memos]
-Search results
-Higby’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-President’s conversation with Rose Mary Woods
-John W. Dean, III
-Washington Post story
-President’s note, March 12
-1972 campaign violence
-Barry M. Goldwater
-News summaries
-Possible notation by the President
-Bruce Kehrli
-Procedures for dissemination
-Kehrli’s possible testimony
-Executive privilege
-Motives of participants
-Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Dean
-Higby’s conversation with Gordon C. Strachan
-Intelligence activities of Committee to Reelect the President [CRP]
-Wiretaps
-$350,000
-Haldeman’s motives
-Strachan’s conversation with Higby
-Higby’s subsequent conversation with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s orders
-Dean
-Strachan’s delivery
-President’s meeting with Dean and Haldeman, March 21
-“Cancer on the Presidency”
-E. Howard Hunt’s threats on money requests
-William O. Bittman
-Dean
-President’s confidence
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 917-28 (cont’d)
-Stay with Higby at Palm Springs over Christmas, 1972
-Conversations
-Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Magruder
-Perjury
-Dean
-Possible immunity
-Report
-Briefings
-Dean’s role as White House counsel
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Haldeman’s grand jury testimony
-Dean
-Documents
-Possible contents
-Memos
-President, Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Possible indictments
-Vulnerabilities
-Possible convictions
-National security
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-White House staff stance
-Compared with 1970 Cambodia reaction
-President’s sympathies
-Dean, Mitchell
-Motives of participants
Haig [?] enters at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.
Higby left at 12:35 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 917-29 (cont’d)