Secret White House Tapes

168–17

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168–17
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander M. Haig
June 2, 1973
Conversation No. 168-17

Date: June 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:56 am and 12:05 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haig’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 168-17 (cont’d)

-Meeting

-Meeting with President

-Camp David

-Birch Lodge


White House staff
-Relations with President
-Proximity
-John J. McCloy
-Conversation with Haig
-Possible role
-Peter G. Peterson

President’s schedule
-President’s conversation with Stephen B. Bull
-Bipartisanship [Republican] Congressional leaders meeting
-Meeting with Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing

Wiretaps
-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
-Names
-Newsmen
-Strategy

White House staff
-Organization

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Bryce N. Harlow, Melvin R. Laird

-Energy position

-Haig’s confidence


Watergate
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s view
-Archibald Cox’s staff
-Ervin Committee
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. vs. Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Possible release of Huston plan

-Effect

-Richard Helms

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 168-17 (cont’d)

-National security

-Ervin

-Ervin Committee

-Cox’s staff
-Possible indictments
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D Ehrlichman, and Charles W. Colson
-Buzhardt’s view
-President’s conversation with Haldeman

-Buzhardt

-Haldeman’s testimony

-President’s conversation, June 2, 1973

-Haldeman’s lawyers’ opinion

-Haldeman and Mitchell

-Press treatment

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Buzhardt’s view

-John L. McClellan

-Statement concerning President

-Possible conversation with Buzhardt or Harlow

-President’s statement

-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s testimony

-President’s possible testimony


Haig’s schedule

-Meeting with President
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