Conversation: 917-029
Prev: 917-028 Next: 917-030Start Date: Monday, May 14, 1973 4:35 PM
End Date: Monday, May 14, 1973 4:53 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:35 pm to 12:53 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 917-029 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 917-29
Date: May 14, 1973
Time: 12:35 pm - 12:53 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Watergate
-Search for President’s files
-President’s memo to John W. Dean, III, March 12
-Campaign violence
-William D. Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement
-Dean’s documents
-President’s search of White House files
-Rose Mary Woods
-Possible memos from the President
-Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement
-Phraseology
-Henry A. Kissinger
-J. Edgar Hoover
-William C. Sullivan
-Files
-Timing
-Sullivan
-Hoover
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-John N. Mitchell
-Phraseology
-Hoover and Mitchell
-Sullivan’s statement regarding Hoover’s possible blackmail
-Dean
-Documents
-Memoranda [Memos]
-President, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Search of the President’s files
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 917-29 (cont’d)
-News summary
-Staff Secretary’s procedures
-Ruckelshaus’s statement
-President’s assessment
-Hoover
Haig left at 12:53 pm.