Secret White House Tapes

914–8

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914–8
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
  • Alexander M. Haig
May 9, 1973
Conversation No. 914-8

Date: May 9, 1973
Time: 9:40 am - 10:02 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Ziegler’s forthcoming call to Henry E. Petersen

President’s schedule

-Executive Office Building [EOB]


Ziegler left at an unknown time before 10:02 am.

President’s meeting with staff member

-George P. Shultz

-Haig’s concern


Watergate
-White House counterattack

-John W. Dean, III

-John B. Connally

-William Proxmire’s statement
-Press activity
-Spiro T. Agnew’s suitability
-Connally
-Dean

-Documents

-Possible statements

-Possible documents from H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D.
Ehrlichman
-Documents
-Content
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Conversation No. 914-8 (cont’d)

-Executive privilege
-Dean and Ervin Committee
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s forthcoming meeting with [Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”)
Rose
-Donald E. Santarelli
-Relationship with Dean
-Edward L. Morgan
-President’s previous conversation with Haldeman
-Executive privilege

-Haldeman’s notes

-Leonard Garment

-President’s papers
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Staff members’ notes
-Haldeman’s notes
-Haig’s conversation with Garment

-Haldeman

-Ehrlichman

-Executive privilege

-Possible public statement

-Executive privilege
-Extent
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Immunity
-Possible delay
-Lawyers for Haldeman and John N. Mitchell

-Buzhardt [?], John J. Wilson, Garment

-Justice Department

-Executive privilege

-Possible effect on Mitchell

-Possible effect on Dean

-Possible actions by Attorney General

-Garment
-Executive privilege
-Extent
-Presentation of administration’s view
-Guidelines
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. December-2011)

Conversation No. 914-8 (cont’d)

-Ervin Committee
-Grand jury
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Appearance of cover-up
-President’s papers

-National security

-Pentagon Papers

-New York Times
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Contents
-Congressmen, ambassadors
-Pentagon Papers
-White House investigation
-Mitchell’s knowledge
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Louis Marx, Eleanor Marx Ellsberg
-Effect of leaks on White House
-Ellsberg
-Effect on presidency
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Media handling
-Motives of participants
-President’s schedule
-Dean’s documents
-Pending legal action
-White House handling
-Removal of files from White House
-Dean
-Documents

Haig left at 10:02 am.
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