Secret White House Tapes

165–2

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165–2
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander M. Haig
May 11, 1973
Conversation No. 165-2

Date: May 11, 1973
Time: 5:35 pm - 5:47 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Greeting

Watergate
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

-William D. Ruckelshaus

-Records

-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement

-Timing

-William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake

-Wiretap

-Timing

-Wiretaps

-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt

-Haig

-Reason for wiretap
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)

Conversation No. 165-2 (cont’d)

-Leaks
-White House wiretaps
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement
-Wiretaps by FBI
-Possible wiretapping by White House
-National security considerations
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Wiretapping
-Robert C. Mardian’s testimony, May 10
-John D. Ehrlichman
-White House knowledge
-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement
-Wiretaps

-Buzhardt

-FBI

-White House

-Hunt
-Wiretaps
-Lake
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Records
-White House

-Morton H. Halperin

-Sonnenfeldt

-Lake

-FBI

-Legality

-National security

-Kissinger’s possible press briefing
-Soviet statement
-Wiretaps
-Wiretaps
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Mardian’s testimony
-Contacts with Haig and Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2012)

Conversation No. 165-2 (cont’d)

-Ehrlichman

-Haig

-Duration

-Lake

-Timing of departure

-FBI

-Ziegler

-Daniel Ellsberg case

-Actions of William M. Byrne, Jr.

-Dispatch of material

-Haig’s meeting with Buzhardt

-Wiretaps

-Kissinger’s potential press questions

-Kissinger’s knowledge of press targets
-Ziegler’s knowledge
-Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement
-Statement
-Lake
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