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- President Richard M. Nixon
- Stephen B. Bull
- Alexander M. Haig
May 8, 1973
Conversation No. 912-3
Date: May 8, 1973
Time: Unknown between 9:23 am and 10:16 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
President’s signature
President’s schedule
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Donald M. I. Kendall
-Edison (“Pele”) Arantes do Nascimento
-Trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Report
Haig entered at 9:26 am.
Greeting
President’s meeting with Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Iceland
-Advance trip
-Approval
-Protocol
-Meeting in Azores
-Translation
-Meetings
-Planning session [?]
-Wreath-laying
-Meeting with Iceland officials
-Legislature
-Arrival ceremony
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:16 am.
-10-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-3 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Haig’s conversation with William P. Rogers, May 7
-Need for big play
-John B. Connally and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Rogers’s possible role with administration
Personnel appointments and management
-Haig’s conversation with Rogers
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Confirmation by Congress
-William J. Casey
Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Need for professionals
-William E. Colby
-State Department
-Saigon
-Son
-Haig’s conversation with Rogers
-Outsider
-Counsel for President
-Leonard Garment
-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Casey
-Balance
-Compared to Rose
-Counsel for President
-Role
-Separate office
-Questions
-Rose
Watergate
-News stories
-Harris poll
-President’s possible resignation
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-3 (cont’d)
-John W. Dean, III
-Possible charges against President
-Possible immunity
-Public’s view
-White House strategy
-Ziegler’s press briefings
-Daniel Ellsberg trial affidavit
-Delay by White House
-Garment’s possible role
-Rose’s possible role
-Haig’s forthcoming telephone call
-Garment
Personnel appointments and management
-FBI director
-Colby
-Cartha D. (“Deke”) DeLoach and William C. Sullivan
-Unknown man
-Lawyer
-Qualifications
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Domestic Council
-James T. Lynn
-“Big play” compared to shift
-CIA
-Announcements
-Cabinet meeting
-Haig
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Domestic council
-Cabinet
-Claude S. Brinegar
-Transportation Secretary
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Resignation
-Haig
-Cabinet
-12-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-3 (cont’d)
-George P. Shultz
-Concerns
-Economy
-Watergate
-Conversation with Haig
-Jamaica
-Connally
-Conversation with Haig
-Connally’s travels
-Nigeria
-USSR
-Postponement
-Announcements
-Cabinet meeting
-Press release
-Schlesinger, Colby, Rose, and Connally
-Criticism
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Compared to Connally
-“Spectacular change”
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-Departures on press coverage
-FBI Director
-Unknown man
-Announcement schedule
-Ruckelshaus
-Domestic Council appointment
-Domestic Council
-Cole
-Announcements
-Defense Department, CIA, Connally, and Haig
-Rose
-Counsel to President
-Duration
-Timing
-FBI Director
-Professional
-13-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-3 (cont’d)
-Potential candidate
-Problems
-Law school dean
-Texas
-Law school deans
-Conservative
-Career professional
-J. Edgar Hoover
-DeLoach
-Democrat
-Sullivan
-Hoover
-Loyalty
-Leadership
-William M. Byrne, Jr.
-Judge
-Ellsberg case
-Controversy
-Rulings
US foreign policy
-US – USSR summit
-Kissinger
-Haig’s conversation with Rogers
-Meeting with Hafiz Ismail
-Rogers
-USSR
-Information
-Kissinger
-Reasonableness
Watergate
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Special Prosecutor
-Meeting with Haig
-Immunity for Dean
-President’s conversations with Henry E. Petersen
-14-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-3 (cont’d)
-Dean
-Possible immunity
-President’s possible protection of Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Handling of information regarding Ellsberg break-in
-Justice Department
-New York Daily News
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Confirmation hearings
-Meeting with Haig
-Possible meeting with President
-President’s preferences
-Telephone calls with Haig
-Answers to questions from Congress members
Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-Staffing of departments
-Haig’s conversations with Jerry J. Jones, Roy L. Ash, Gen. Brent G.
Scowcroft, and ambassadors
-Scowcroft’s conversation with Rogers
-Avoid controversies
-Contributors
-W. Clement Stone
-J. Fife Symington, Jr.
-William E. Timmons
-President’s cooperation
-White House staff
-Staffing of departments
-Press relations
-Congressional relations
-Timing
-Staffing
-Schlesinger and Colby
-Connally
-Volunteer
-United States Steel
-Timing
-Announcement
-15-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-3 (cont’d)
President’s schedule
-Congressional leaders
-Cabinet
Watergate
-Public’s view
-Harris poll
-Compared with John F. Kennedy and Bay of Pigs
-Administration’s successes
-Vietnam settlement return of prisoners of war [POWs]
-Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
Transition between President’s first and second terms
-Handling by Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Watergate
White House staff
-Relations with Cabinet, Congress
President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Ziegler’s announcements
Personnel appointments and management
-Clearances
-Colby
-Secretiveness with regard to publicity
-FBI Director
-President’s desire for a professional
-Police chief
-Corruption
-Richard A. Sprague
-Prosecutor of United Mine Workers president, W. A. (“Tony”) Boyle
-Potential appointment as Special Prosecutor
-President’s recommendation to Richardson
-Professional
-16-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-3 (cont’d)
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-[Domestic Council]
-Stability of Cabinet appointments
-Ziegler’s view
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Connally
-Experience at Treasury Department
-Potential role in administration
-Potential attendance at Cabinet meeting
-Travel
-Length of appointment
-Special counsel
Watergate
-Resignation of Richard G. Kleindienst, Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Effect on Watergate criticism
Connally
-Stephen B. Bull [?]
-Haig’s role
Haig left at 10:16 am.
Date: May 8, 1973
Time: Unknown between 9:23 am and 10:16 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
President’s signature
President’s schedule
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Donald M. I. Kendall
-Edison (“Pele”) Arantes do Nascimento
-Trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Report
Haig entered at 9:26 am.
Greeting
President’s meeting with Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Iceland
-Advance trip
-Approval
-Protocol
-Meeting in Azores
-Translation
-Meetings
-Planning session [?]
-Wreath-laying
-Meeting with Iceland officials
-Legislature
-Arrival ceremony
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:16 am.
-10-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-3 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Haig’s conversation with William P. Rogers, May 7
-Need for big play
-John B. Connally and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Rogers’s possible role with administration
Personnel appointments and management
-Haig’s conversation with Rogers
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Confirmation by Congress
-William J. Casey
Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Need for professionals
-William E. Colby
-State Department
-Saigon
-Son
-Haig’s conversation with Rogers
-Outsider
-Counsel for President
-Leonard Garment
-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Casey
-Balance
-Compared to Rose
-Counsel for President
-Role
-Separate office
-Questions
-Rose
Watergate
-News stories
-Harris poll
-President’s possible resignation
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-3 (cont’d)
-John W. Dean, III
-Possible charges against President
-Possible immunity
-Public’s view
-White House strategy
-Ziegler’s press briefings
-Daniel Ellsberg trial affidavit
-Delay by White House
-Garment’s possible role
-Rose’s possible role
-Haig’s forthcoming telephone call
-Garment
Personnel appointments and management
-FBI director
-Colby
-Cartha D. (“Deke”) DeLoach and William C. Sullivan
-Unknown man
-Lawyer
-Qualifications
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Domestic Council
-James T. Lynn
-“Big play” compared to shift
-CIA
-Announcements
-Cabinet meeting
-Haig
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Domestic council
-Cabinet
-Claude S. Brinegar
-Transportation Secretary
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Resignation
-Haig
-Cabinet
-12-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-3 (cont’d)
-George P. Shultz
-Concerns
-Economy
-Watergate
-Conversation with Haig
-Jamaica
-Connally
-Conversation with Haig
-Connally’s travels
-Nigeria
-USSR
-Postponement
-Announcements
-Cabinet meeting
-Press release
-Schlesinger, Colby, Rose, and Connally
-Criticism
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Compared to Connally
-“Spectacular change”
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-Departures on press coverage
-FBI Director
-Unknown man
-Announcement schedule
-Ruckelshaus
-Domestic Council appointment
-Domestic Council
-Cole
-Announcements
-Defense Department, CIA, Connally, and Haig
-Rose
-Counsel to President
-Duration
-Timing
-FBI Director
-Professional
-13-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-3 (cont’d)
-Potential candidate
-Problems
-Law school dean
-Texas
-Law school deans
-Conservative
-Career professional
-J. Edgar Hoover
-DeLoach
-Democrat
-Sullivan
-Hoover
-Loyalty
-Leadership
-William M. Byrne, Jr.
-Judge
-Ellsberg case
-Controversy
-Rulings
US foreign policy
-US – USSR summit
-Kissinger
-Haig’s conversation with Rogers
-Meeting with Hafiz Ismail
-Rogers
-USSR
-Information
-Kissinger
-Reasonableness
Watergate
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Special Prosecutor
-Meeting with Haig
-Immunity for Dean
-President’s conversations with Henry E. Petersen
-14-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-3 (cont’d)
-Dean
-Possible immunity
-President’s possible protection of Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Handling of information regarding Ellsberg break-in
-Justice Department
-New York Daily News
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Confirmation hearings
-Meeting with Haig
-Possible meeting with President
-President’s preferences
-Telephone calls with Haig
-Answers to questions from Congress members
Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-Staffing of departments
-Haig’s conversations with Jerry J. Jones, Roy L. Ash, Gen. Brent G.
Scowcroft, and ambassadors
-Scowcroft’s conversation with Rogers
-Avoid controversies
-Contributors
-W. Clement Stone
-J. Fife Symington, Jr.
-William E. Timmons
-President’s cooperation
-White House staff
-Staffing of departments
-Press relations
-Congressional relations
-Timing
-Staffing
-Schlesinger and Colby
-Connally
-Volunteer
-United States Steel
-Timing
-Announcement
-15-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-3 (cont’d)
President’s schedule
-Congressional leaders
-Cabinet
Watergate
-Public’s view
-Harris poll
-Compared with John F. Kennedy and Bay of Pigs
-Administration’s successes
-Vietnam settlement return of prisoners of war [POWs]
-Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
Transition between President’s first and second terms
-Handling by Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Watergate
White House staff
-Relations with Cabinet, Congress
President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Ziegler’s announcements
Personnel appointments and management
-Clearances
-Colby
-Secretiveness with regard to publicity
-FBI Director
-President’s desire for a professional
-Police chief
-Corruption
-Richard A. Sprague
-Prosecutor of United Mine Workers president, W. A. (“Tony”) Boyle
-Potential appointment as Special Prosecutor
-President’s recommendation to Richardson
-Professional
-16-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 912-3 (cont’d)
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-[Domestic Council]
-Stability of Cabinet appointments
-Ziegler’s view
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Connally
-Experience at Treasury Department
-Potential role in administration
-Potential attendance at Cabinet meeting
-Travel
-Length of appointment
-Special counsel
Watergate
-Resignation of Richard G. Kleindienst, Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Effect on Watergate criticism
Connally
-Stephen B. Bull [?]
-Haig’s role
Haig left at 10:16 am.