Secret White House Tapes

165–4

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165–4
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander M. Haig
May 11, 1973
Conversation No. 165-4

Date: May 11, 1973
Time: 6:35 pm - 6:47 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Vault

Watergate
-Wiretaps

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

-White House

-President’s press conference statement

-J. Edgar Hoover

-Robert F. Kennedy’s tenure as Attorney General

-William D. Ruckelshaus’s possible statement

-Compared with previous administrations

-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

-Newsmen

-Leaks

-Possible public reaction

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s statement

-Telephone call to Clark MacGregor, July 5, 1972

-President’s activity

-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

-Statement

-Conversation with Henry E. Petersen

-James R. Schlesinger

-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]

-Conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

-Memcons

-Possible testimony

-William E. Colby

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2012)

Conversation No. 165-4 (cont’d)


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-Elliot L. Richardson

-Edward Bennett Williams

-Prosecutorial experience

-Bernard Goldfine

-Boston money case

-Special Prosecutor

-FBI checks

-Possible Directors of FBI

-William M. Byrne, Jr.

-Handling of Daniel Ellsberg case
-Unknown St. Louis judge
-Tod Hullin
-Ehrlichman’s former staff
-Unknown man’s resignation

-Ellsberg case

-Ruckelshaus

-Memcons
-Haig’s meeting with Buzhardt
-Wiretaps
-William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake
-Robert C. Mardian
-FBI
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)

Conversation No. 165-4 (cont’d)

-President’s knowledge of Hunt’s activities
-Lake

-Hoover

-George S. McGovern

-Edmund S. Muskie

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Role

-Relationship to Lake

-Kissinger’s forthcoming press conference, May 12

-National security

-Kissinger’s role

-White House involvement

-President, Haig, Kissinger
-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Compared with previous administrations

-Robert F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

-National security

-Buzhardt’s view

-Lake

-Possible White House actions

-Courts

-FBI

-Kissinger

-Meeting with W[illiam] Averell Harriman

-Search for file

-Buzhardt

-United States Secret Service [USSS]

-White House attitude

-Lake

-National security

-Newsmen

-Public attitude

-Possible statement by Ziegler

-Kissinger’s possible statement, May 12

-Content

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2012)

Conversation No. 165-4 (cont’d)

-Ruckelshaus’s possible statement
-Research in files
-Hoover’s practice
-Mardian
-William C. Sullivan
-John N. Mitchell

-Testimony

-Kissinger’s possible statement, May 12
-India-Pakistan War
-National security
-Lake

-Hunt

-FBI

-National security
-Legal basis
-Bombing of Cambodia
-Search for file
-Buzhardt and Lawrence M. Higby
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