Secret White House Tapes

917-28

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917-28
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Lawrence M. Higby
  • Alexander M. Haig
May 14, 1973
Conversation No. 917-28

Date: May 14, 1973
Time: 12:25 pm - 12:35 pm
Location: Oval Office
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Conversation No. 917-28 (cont’d)

The President met with Lawrence M. Higby.

Watergate
-President’s memoranda [memos]
-Search results
-Higby’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-President’s conversation with Rose Mary Woods
-John W. Dean, III
-Washington Post story
-President’s note, March 12
-1972 campaign violence
-Barry M. Goldwater
-News summaries

-Possible notation by the President

-Bruce Kehrli

-Procedures for dissemination

-Kehrli’s possible testimony

-Executive privilege

-Motives of participants
-Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Dean
-Higby’s conversation with Gordon C. Strachan
-Intelligence activities of Committee to Reelect the President [CRP]
-Wiretaps
-$350,000
-Haldeman’s motives
-Strachan’s conversation with Higby
-Higby’s subsequent conversation with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s orders

-Dean

-Strachan’s delivery

-President’s meeting with Dean and Haldeman, March 21
-“Cancer on the Presidency”
-E. Howard Hunt’s threats on money requests
-William O. Bittman

-Dean

-President’s confidence

-Ehrlichman and Haldeman

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. June-2012)

Conversation No. 917-28 (cont’d)

-Stay with Higby at Palm Springs over Christmas, 1972
-Conversations
-Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Magruder
-Perjury
-Dean

-Possible immunity

-Report

-Briefings

-Dean’s role as White House counsel
-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Haldeman’s grand jury testimony

-Dean

-Documents
-Possible contents
-Memos
-President, Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony
-Possible indictments
-Vulnerabilities
-Possible convictions
-National security

-William D. Ruckelshaus

-White House staff stance

-Compared with 1970 Cambodia reaction
-President’s sympathies
-Dean, Mitchell
-Motives of participants

Haig [?] enters at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.

Higby left at 12:35 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


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(rev. June-2012)

Conversation No. 917-29 (cont’d)
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