Secret White House Tapes

913–8

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913–8
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander M. Haig
May 8, 1973
Conversation No. 913-8

Date: May 8, 1973
Time: 6:30 pm - 7:37 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2012)

Conversation No. 913-8 (cont’d)


Haig’s meeting with [Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Rose’s possible role on White House Staff
-Consultant
-John W. Byrnes
-Wisconsin
-Congress
-President’s familiarity

Haig’s conversation with Bryce N. Harlow
-Byrnes

-Leonard Garment

-Experience

-Knowledge of Congress


Rose
-Need for technical expertise
-Garment
-Haig’s assessment
-President’s assessment

Watergate
-Ervin Committee
-Possible delays
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Possible White House response

-Garment

-Richard A. Moore

-Public relations [PR]
-David N. Parker

-Haig’s assessment

-President’s assessment

-White House Counsel
-Rose

-Compared with Byrnes

-Possible role with White House staff

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2012)

Conversation No. 913-8 (cont’d)

-Performance
-Department of Defense [DOD]
-Melvin R. Laird
-Haig’s assessment
-Familiarity with Congress

-Byrnes

-Buzhardt

-William P. Rogers

-Role with White House staff

-Conversation with Haig

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-William Casey
-William E. Colby
-Casey
-Robert L. Vesco

-Buzhardt

-Rogers

-President’s assessment

Watergate
-Possible White House response
-President’s role
-John W. Dean III

-Possible immunity

-Possible White House statement

-Documents

-Dean’s statement
-Memoranda of conversation [Memcons]
-Possible White House response
-Senate hearings
-Dean

-Grand jury

-Effects of Senate immunity

-Dean

-Documents

-Possible effect

-Possible White House response to charges

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. January-2012)

Conversation No. 913-8 (cont’d)

-President

-Buzhardt

-Rose

-Haig’s conversation with Harlow

-Edward A. McCabe

-Rose

-White House counsel

-Dean

-Buzhardt

-Haig’s forthcoming conversations
-William P. Clements, Jr.

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Garment

-Executive privilege

-Rose


Haig left at 7:37 pm.
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