Secret White House Tapes

165–8

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165–8
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander M. Haig
May 11, 1973
Conversation No. 165-8

Date: May 11, 1973
Time: 7:08pm - 7:27 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Watergate
-Wiretaps

-Number and targets

-Cut-off date

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)

Conversation No. 165-8 (cont’d)

-William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Timing
-White House files
-William D. Ruckelshaus’s conversation with Haig

-J. Edgar Hoover’s statement to William C. Sullivan

-Contents

-FBI feud with Justice Department

-Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement
-Timing
-Henry A. Kissinger’s possible statement
-Ruckelshaus’s investigation
-Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement
-Compared with previous administrations
-John F. Kennedy administrations
-White House files
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s examination
-John N. Mitchell’s memo
-Lake
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Ruckelshaus
-Forthcoming statement
-W. Mark Felt
-Sullivan’s opposition
-Number and targets
-Purpose
-Lake
-Ruckelshaus
-FBI
-Haig’s view
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing
-Compared with previous administrations
-Mitchell
-Role
-Testimony
-Lake
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2012)

Conversation No. 165-8 (cont’d)

-Hunt’s possible statements
-John D. Ehrlichman’s comment to the President
-Difficulty
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing
-Soviet summit
-National security

-Forthcoming leak

-Haig’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler

-Statements

-Ruckelshaus, Kissinger
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