434–16

Conversation No. 434-16

Date: May 11, 1973
Time: 2:24 pm - 2:47 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
 -25-


NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. September-2012)

Conversation No. 434-9 (cont’d)

President’s schedule

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 2:25 pm.

Bull left at 2:26 pm.


*****************************************************************
[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

Refreshment

-Dubonet

-Lunch

-Alcohol

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
*****************************************************************


Watergate
-Vernon A. Walters
-William E. Colby
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Memorandum of conversation [memcon]
-President
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Cover-up
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Buzhardt
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Memcons
-Elliot L. Richardson’s possible request
-Walters’s preparation of sanitized version
-Timing of delivery to Richardson
-Haig’s concern
 -26-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2012)

Conversation No. 434-9 (cont’d)

-Senate committee
-Colby, Richardson, Schlesinger
-President’s role
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-President’s intentions
-Richard M. Helms’s subsequent conversation with President
-Haig’s forthcoming meeting with Walters
-Colby, Schlesinger, Richardson, and Henry E. Petersen
-President’s conversation with Gray
-Walters’s memory
-Walters’s testimony
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Buzhardt’s fears
-President’s conversation with Gray
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman
-Haig’s conversation with Buzhardt [?]
-Guilt
-“Conduit theory”
-President’s support
-Compared to Henry A. Kissinger
-Compared to Adm. Thomas A. Moorer
-Pentagon
-Jack N. Anderson story
-Buzhardt
-Walters
-Possible conversations
-Colby and Schlesinger
-Richardson
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Contact with Walters
-Meetings
-John W. Dean III
-National security leaks
-Ehrlichman’s possible approval
-Buzhardt’s viewpoint
-Ehrlichman’s and Haldeman’s indictments
-National security issue
 -27-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2012)

Conversation No. 434-9 (cont’d)

-President’s trust
-Buzhardt
-Dean
-Buzhardt
-H[orace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Leonard Garment
-Buzhardt
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Watergate break-in
-President’s beliefs concerning CIA
-Funds for defendants
-President’s knowledge
-President’s judgment in personnel
-Moorer

-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]

-Henry A. Kissinger

-State Department

-Bugging

-Walters
-President’s conversation with Gray regarding Watergate investigation
-Gray’s grand jury testimony
-Possible statement to Petersen
-President’s conversation with Gray
-Buzhardt
-Walters
-Haldeman’s involvement
-Walters
-Possible statement regarding Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-National security
-Forthcoming conversation with Haig
-Walters’s statement

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Dean

-Meeting with President

-Meeting with Petersen

-Haig’s support
-CIA involvement
 -28-


NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. September-2012)

Conversation No. 434-9 (cont’d)

-Helms
-Conversation with President regarding CIA involvement in
Watergate
-Colby
-Nomination
-Walters’s testimony
-Possible conversations
-Schlesinger and Richardson
-Memcons
-White House files
-Ownership
-Contents
-Possible copies
-Richardson, Colby, Schlesinger

-Nominations

-Walters

-Conversation with Colby


Rose Mary Woods talked with the President between 2:42 pm and 2:43 pm.

[Conversation No. 434-16A]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 46-7]

The President conferred with Haig during the conversation.

[Begin conferral]

Watergate

-Woods

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files


[End conferral]

[End telephone conversation]
 -29-


NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. September-2012)

Conversation No. 434-9 (cont’d)


Watergate

-President’s previous conversation with Woods

-FBI files

-Ehrlichman

-Woods

-Lawrence M. Higby


Haig

Watergate

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-White House response

-Judge John J. Sirica [?]

-Ehrlichman

-William M. Byrne, Jr.

-Leak


Haig left at 2:47 pm.