Date: May 14, 1973
Time: 8:20 pm – 9:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Refreshment
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:20 pm.
Refreshment
-Corned beef hash, eggs
-Scotch and soda
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:01 pm.
Watergate
-Haig’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-Richardson’s comment
-Special Prosecutor
-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Harold R. Tyler, Jr.
-Warren E. Hearnes
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Affidavit
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2012)
-Effects
-President
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman concerning L[ouis] Patrick
Gray
-Meeting with Gray concerning Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
involvement
-Richard M. Helms
-Timeline
-Meeting with John W. Dean, III
-President
-Helms
-Walters
-Meeting with President
-Dean’s possible activities
-Walters
-Walters
-Meeting with Helms
-Meeting with Richard A. Moore
-Support for President
-Testimony regarding meeting with Gray
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Legal culpability
-Haldeman’s grand jury testimony
-Meeting regarding CIA involvement
-National security
-Executive privilege
-Grand Jurors
-Composition
-Blacks
-Allegations regarding President’s San Clemente property
-Robert Abplanalp’s telephone call to Haig
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo’s and Abplanalp’s financial involvement
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson
-White House response
-Possible press story
-Santa Ana Register
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-Leonard Garment
-Abplanalp’s telephone call to Haig
-Rebozo’s and Abplanalp’s financial involvement
-Motives
-Nixon Foundation
-Jews
-White House response
-Quality of investment
-Abplanalp
-Rebozo
-Richardson
-Confirmation
-Conversation with Haig
-Trustworthiness of administration officials
-Cabinet
-Henry A. Kissinger
-White House taping system
-Johnson
-White House taping system
-President’s knowledge
-Kissinger’s knowledge
-Haldeman’s departure from White House staff
-Kissinger’s conversation with Haig
-Extent of recordings
-Telephone conversations
-Executive Office Building [EOB], Oval Office, Lincoln Sitting Room,
Camp David
-Kissinger
-Conversation with Haig
-Concerns
-Summit
-Wiretaps during leak investigation
-Kissinger and Haig
-National security
-Kissinger
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Press briefing
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-Reason
-National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Navy yeoman [Charles E. Radford]
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Morton A. Halperin
-Daniel I. Davidson
-Kissinger
-Halperin
-Earle Wheeler’s role
-Appointment to NSC
-White House leaks
-Judge
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Melvin R. Laird
-Jack N. Anderson
-Relationship with Buzhardt
-Laird
-Buzhardt
-Dean
-Documents
-John J. Sirica
-President’s records
-News summary
-Documents
-E. Howard Hunt
-Ehrlichman
-Credibility
-Henry E. Petersen’s conversation with Buzhardt
-Indictments
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-White House response
-Dean’s documents
-Possible statements by Walters and Helms
-President’s conversation with Ziegler
-Allegations regarding President’s San Clemente property
-Ziegler’s forthcoming actions, May 15
-Baker
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-Ervin Committee
-Executive privilege
-Release of documents
-Buzhardt compared with Garment
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:20 pm.
Refreshments
-Scotch, wine
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:01 pm.
Watergate
-Allegations regarding President’s San Clemente property
-White House respone
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-National Security
-Dean’s evidence
-Helm’s [?] testimony
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Employment
-CIA
-Disaster
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:20 pm.
Refreshment
-Wine
-President’s appreciation
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:01 pm.
Watergate
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Senate Armed Services Committee
-CIA
-Helms
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-Helms
-Possible testimony
-White House response
-President’s previous conversation with Ziegler, May 14
-President’s schedule
-White Paper
-President’s schedule
-Departures of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-CIA
-President’s knowledge
-White House response
-Motives of President’s opponents
-Buzhardt
-Dean
-John N. Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and President
-Bureaucracy
-President’s advisors
-Helms [?]
-Conversation with Walters
-Warning
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s alleged motive for meeting with Walters
-Testimony
-Walters
-Statements
-Superiors
-Dean compared to Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Credibility
-Meeting with Walters
-Watergate defendants
-CIA payroll
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Haig’s familiarity
-White House strategy
-Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Allegations regarding President’s San Clemente property
-Ervin Committee
-Ziegler
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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 8:20 pm and
9:01 pm.
[Conversation No 436-18A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 46-40]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Allegations regarding President’s San Clemente property
-Ziegler
-Ervin Committee and Baker
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler between 9:01 pm and 9:03 pm.
[Conversation No. 436-18B]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 46-41]
[End telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Santa Ana Register
-Allegations regarding President’s San Clemente property
-Ervin Committee
-White House response
-Special Prosecutor
-Richardson
-Tyler
-White House response
-President’s role
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-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Response
-Contrasted with Dean
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing, May 15
-Ervin Committee
-Possible leak regarding Carmine Bellino
Haig’s schedule
-Haig’s wife, Patricia Haig
Watergate
-Allegations regarding President’s San Clemente property
The President and Haig left at 9:15 pm.