45–217

Conversation No. 45-217

Date: May 10, 1973
Time: 6:40 pm - 6:48 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President.

Congressional relations

-President’s telephone call to William E. Timmons

-Legislation in House of Representatives

-Effect of vote

-Damage limitation

-Timmons’s role

-Timmons

-State Department, Defense Department

-Responsibility

-Haig’s meeting with Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford

-Effect of legislative setback

-North Vietnam

-Hanoi

-Repetition

-Defense Department

-Drafting of legislation
-Comptroller
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. October-2012)

Conversation No. 45-217 (cont’d)

-House Republicans

-Votes

-Defections

-Democrats

-Timmons’s office

-Assistance

-[First name unknown] Saunders

-Defense Department

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.


President’s schedule

-Henry A. Kissinger


Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Haig

-Work with John B. Connally

-Foreign Policy


Cabinet meeting, May 10, 1973

-Tone


Connally’s schedule

-Lawrence M. Higby [?]

-Work for White House

-Kissinger briefing


President’s situation

-Press reaction

-Haig’s meeting with press

-Cabinet meeting
-Appointments of Dr. James R. Schlesinger and William E. Colby