Conversation: 921-001
Prev: 920-015 Next: 921-002Start Date: Thursday, May 17, 1973 12:20 PM
End Date: Thursday, May 17, 1973 12:40 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; [Unknown person(s)]Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 17, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:20 am to 8:40 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 921-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 921-1
Date: May 17, 1973
Time: 8:20 am - 8:40 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Staff meeting
Watergate
-Informing people of Huston Plan
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Henry E. Petersen
-James R. Schlesinger
-Executive privilege
-John D. Ehrlichman’s conversations with Richard G. Kleindienst
-National security
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s conversations
-John L. McClellan’s statements
-Special Prosecutor
-Warren M. Christopher
-Barry M. Goldwater’s statement regarding President’s leadership
-Haig’s possible call to Goldwater
-Huston Plan
-Termination
-President
-J. Edgar Hoover’s view
-Clyde A. Tolson’s actions
-William C. Sullivan
-Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John N. Mitchell’s recommendation
-Sullivan’s call
-President’s approval
-Haldeman’s role
-Termination
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 921-1 (cont’d)
-Meeting in President’s office
-Hoover and Tolson
-Possible White House response
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Implementation
Public relations [PR]
-President’s election reform proposal
-Television [TV] coverage
-Price freezes
Watergate
-White House response
-Daniel Ellsberg
-J. Strom Thurmond and Edmund S. Muskie
-Howard K. Smith’s TV comment, 5/16
-Wiretaps
-Smith [?]
-Haig
-Henry A. Kissinger
-National Security Council [NSC] staff
-President’s forthcoming meeting with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Possible White House response
-Release of documents
-Walters’s documents
-National security
-Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]
-Haldeman
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray
-Possible release
-Possible White House response
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s possible response
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:20 am.
Buzhardt
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 921-1 (cont’d)
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:40 am.
-Press coverage
President’s schedule
-Haig and Ronald L. Ziegler
Haig left at 8:40 am.