Conversation: 922-014
Prev: 922-013 Next: 922-015Start Date: Friday, May 18, 1973 4:15 PM
End Date: Friday, May 18, 1973 4:27 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 18, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:15 pm to 12:27 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 922-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 922-14
Date: May 18, 1973
Time: 12:15 pm -12:27 pm
Location: Oval Office
President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Lawrence M. Higby
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-[William] Stuart Symington
-Possible release
-Possible White House response
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Further release of documents
-Jackson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 922-14 (cont’d)
-Symington
-President’s call to L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Possible White House response
-Release of White House response
-Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Plumbers
-Impeachment
-Symington’s view
-Possible White House response
-Walters’s memcons
-Possible White House response
-Content
-President’s orders to Gray
-Impeachment
-Timing of possible House vote
-Ervin Committee hearings
-McCord’s testimony
-Plumbers
-Amnesty
-President’s role
-Possible White House response
-Possible release of memcons
-Possible statements from Walters and Gray
-Ziegler
President and Haig left at 12:27 pm.