Conversation: 922-007
Prev: 922-006 Next: 922-008Start Date: 18-May-1973 10:45 AM
End Date: 18-May-1973 11:46 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Ziegler, Ronald L.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 18, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Ronald L. Ziegler, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:45 am to 11:46 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 922-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 922-7
Date: May 18, 1973
Time: 10:45 am - 11:46 am
Location: Oval Office
President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Haig’s schedule
-Meeting
-Briefing
-Cabinet meeting
President’s previous meeting with Robert H. Finch
Ronald L. Ziegler’s schedule
-Press briefing
-Meeting with John A. Scali
-President
-Meeting with Haig
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:45 am.
Ziegler’s presence at meeting
-Scali
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:56 am.
Watergate
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 922-7 (cont’d)
-Ziegler’s meeting with Haig, May 17
-New York Times strategy
-President’s foreign policy
Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 10:45 am.
Watergate
-Ziegler’s schedule
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Contacts with W. Matthew Byrne
-President’s instructions
-Daniel Ellsberg case
-Richard G. Kleindienst’s recommendation
-John W. Dean III
-Dean
-Interview with Walter Cronkite, May 17
-Conversation with Ziegler regarding investigation
-[William] Stuart Symington
-Haig’s conversation with James R. Schlesinger
-White House staff’s meetings with Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-Allegations
-Dean
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Possible White House response
-Ziegler’s meeting with Haig and Buzhardt, May 17
-President’s possible role in break-in
-Symington
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-Ziegler’s meeting with Haig and Buzhardt
-President’s resignation
-Ziegler’s possible resignation
-Murray M. Chotiner’s opinion
-Dean
-Possible attacks on presidency
-Motives
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 922-7 (cont’d)
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Credibility
Ziegler left at 10:56 am.
Watergate
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Spiro T. Agnew
-Comparison of affidavits and Walters’s memcons
-Buzhardt
-Schlesinger’s actions
-President’s activities
-Hearsay
-Symington
-Walters’s memcons
-Effect of possible release
-Dean’s files
-President
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible access
-Haig
-Dean
-Integrity of United States Secret Service [USSS]
-Buzhardt
-George P. Shultz
-Possible contents
-Huston Plan
-Termination
-Schlesinger’s investigation of routing of report
-White House Situation Room
-Possible effect on presidency
-CIA meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-President’s motives
-Dean’s subsequent meetings with Walters
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray III
-Gray
-Possible testimony
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 922-7 (cont’d)
-Huston Plan
-Possible implementation
-Tom C. Huston and Dean
-Verbiage
-Possible implementation
-Huston and Dean
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-CIA
-Walters
-Schlesinger
-Dean’s request
-President’s role
-Richard M. Helms
-Testimony regarding knowledge of Walters’s activities
-Symington
-Dean’s request of Walters
-Helms’s reaction
-Helms
-Possible resignation
-Conversation with President
-CIA
-Dean’s request
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Walters’s memcons
-Possible release
-Haig’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-President’s role in Ehrlichman’s activities
-Executive privilege
-Memcons of conversations with President
-Buzhardt’s view
-Buzhardt
-Possible access to files of Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean
-Executive privilege
-Haldeman’s memos of meetings with President
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s papers
-Possible assault by President’s opponents
-President’s conversations with staff members
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 922-7 (cont’d)
-Meeting with Dean, March 21
-White House staff members’ memcons
-Possible access by Buzhardt
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Charles W. Colson
-President’s conversations with Haldeman
-Content
-President’s possible resignation
-Walters’s memcons
-President’s motive
-Memcons of President’s conversations with Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Colson
-Effect of possible release
-Ehrlichman
-Possible release of memcons
-Buzhardt’s view
-Plumbers
-President’s knowledge
-Break-in
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming meeting with Haig
-Ehrlichman
-Presidency
-Removal from White House staff
-Ehrlichman
-Possible testimony regarding meeting with Walters
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Bay of Pigs
-Mexican money
-Conversation with Haig
-Buzhardt
-Colson
-President’s possible meeting with Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Memcons of meetings with President
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson
-President’s directions
-Possible release
-Effects
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 922-7 (cont’d)
-Buzhardt’s view
-Executive privilege
-President’s ownership
-Possible access
-Buzhardt and Haig
-President’s knowledge
-Break-in, cover-up, clemency
-Walters’s memcons
-Ehrlichman’s memcons
-Possible release
-Telephone tapes
-Haldeman
-Advice to President regarding Buzhardt
-Meeting, March 21
-President’s schedule
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman
-Resignation from White House staff
-Conversation with Buzhardt
-Compared to Haldeman
-Possible White House response
-President’s resignation
-Effects
-White House staff members’ papers
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible access by Buzhardt
-Colson
-President’s ownership
-Dean
-President’s schedule
-Haldeman
Haig left at 11:46 am.
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