Secret White House Tapes

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46–23
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander M. Haig
May 13, 1973
Conversation No. 46-23

Date: May 13, 1973
Time: 10:09 pm - 10:43 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haig’s schedule

-Patricia Haig


Watergate

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Publicity

-President’s meeting with Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files

-Statement to William D. Ruckelshaus

-Delivery to White House by William C. Sullivan

-Timing

-Motivation

-J. Edgar Hoover

-Content

-Wiretaps

-National security
-John N. Mitchell’s authorization
-Perjury
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)

Conversation No. 46-23 (cont’d)

-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s testimony

-Timing

-Possible content

-John W. Dean, III

-New York

-Possible effects of others’ testimony

-Jeb Stuart. Magruder

-Walters

-Money for defendants

-Documents

-Possible contents

-Possible immunity

-Possible indictments

-Magruder

-Mitchell

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman

-Executive privilege

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Ervin Committee hearings

-Executive privilege

-Daniel Ellsberg case

-William M. Byrne, Jr.’s actions

-Reaction

-Ellsberg’s actions characterized

-McGeorge Bundy


Declassification
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Bay of Pigs
-Ngo Dinh Diem’s death
-Effect on Vietnam War
-Haig’s view
-President’s position
-Bay of Pigs
-Bundy

-Diem’s death

-Henry Cabot Lodge

-Complicity

-Haig’s conversation with Lodge’s former assistant

-Events surrounding coup

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. January-2011)

Conversation No. 46-23 (cont’d)

-Lodge’s conversation with Diem
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Pentagon Papers
-Clark M. Clifford
-Robert S. McNamara
-John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
-Release of information
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

-Committee report

-William H. Rehnquist

-Pentagon Papers

-White House position

-Release of documents



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Declassification

-White House position

-Release of documents

-Liberal reactions

-Value of controversy

-President’s position

-Libya

-Effect on Watergate investigation

-Bay of Pigs

-Chester Bowles

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)

Conversation No. 46-23 (cont’d)

-Adlai E. Stevenson

-Maxwell Taylor report


Watergate
-Dean

-Possible immunity

-Subornation of perjury

-Possible testimony

-Documents

-Walters
-Documents

-FBI documents

-Walters

-Documents

-Possible testimony

-Ruckelshaus

-Forthcoming statement, May 14

-Statistics

-Ehrlichman’s alleged request

-Sullivan’s meeting with Robert C. Mardian

-Sullivan

-FBI directorship

-Ruckelshaus

-Forthcoming statement May 14

-Term in office

-William E. Colby

-Possible testimony

-James R. Schlesinger

-Possible testimony

-Leaks

-Schlesinger and Colby

-Richard G. Kleindienst

-Schlesinger
-Meeting with Buzhardt, May 13

-Purpose

-Knowledge of Watergate

-Walters and Dean

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Blackmail

-Dean
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. January-2011)

Conversation No. 46-23 (cont’d)

-Richard M. Helms
-Cover-up

-Walters

-President’s meeting with Helms
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