165–19

Conversation No. 165-19

Date: May 12, 1973
Time: 12:37pm - 12:54 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Watergate

-President’s previous conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler

-Henry A. Kissinger’s press briefing

-Wiretaps

-Compared with previous administrations

-Attempts to reach L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-President’s conversation with Gray

-Ziegler

-Leak

-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Possible release
-Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Jr.’s appearance before Armed Services Committee
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger’s memcons
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Possible effects of White House refusal to release
-Copies
-Richard M. Helms

-Schlesinger’s possible testimony

-June 28, 1972 memcon

-Possible effect
-White House retention

-National security

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

-Schlesinger
-June 28, 1972 memcon
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s conversation with Helms
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)

Conversation No. 165-19 (cont’d)

-Walters’s call to Gray

-Possible effect of release

-Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman

-Hearsay evidence

-Walters
-Helms

-Possible possession of copy

-Forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt

-Haig’s conversation with Walters

-Copies

-Helms

-Forthcoming conversation with Buzhardt

-Conversation with Haldeman and Walters, June 28, 1972

-White House concern

-CIA involvement

-Conversation with Gray, June 27, 1972

-June 28, 1972 memcon

-Effects of possible release

-Helms

-Memcon

-President’s motivation

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Walters’s possible testimony

-Gray’s possible testimony

-Gray’s previous testimony

-Conversation with Walters

-John W. Dean, III

-Possible release

-White House response
-Buzhardt’s schedule
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Memcons
-Effects of possible release
-Helms’s conversation with Gray
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2012)

Conversation No. 165-19 (cont’d)

-President’s subsequent conversation with Gray
-Gray’s conversation with Walters

-Grand Jury

-Ziegler’s forthcoming statement

-Haig’s call to the President