45–203

Conversation No. 45-203

Date: May 10, 1973
Time: 4:54 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Watergate

-Indictments of John N. Mitchell and Maurice H. Stans


President’s schedule

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Press coverage

-Meeting with Kissinger, Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft, and Haig

-Kissinger, William P. Rogers

-Rogers’s trip

Watergate
-Stans

-Mitchell

-Indictments

-Perjury


Press coverage of President

Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s telephone call to Haig

-William E. Colby appointment

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] directorship

-Unknown candidate

-Background

-William C. Sullivan

-Sullivan

-Qualifications

-Henry E. Petersen

-J. Edgar Hoover

-Possible meeting with Haig

-Loyalty

-Early work with White House
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Tape Subject Log

(rev. October-2012)

Conversation No. 45-203 (cont’d)

-Jackson’s view

-Opposition to Hoover

-Possible meeting with Haig

-Comparison with William M. Byrne

-Bipartisan support

-Colby

Dr. James R. Schlesinger

-Comparison with Elliot L. Richardson

-Toughness


Watergate
-Rogers’s call to Haig

-Earl Warren’s response

-Warren E. Burger

-Tom C. Clark