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President Nixon Sought Independent View of Alexander Haig

Haig was Key Advisor of Nixon, in Particular when Henry Kissinger was Absent

Collection of Nixon-Haig Telephone Calls Assembled for the First Time

In his final year of life, Alexander Haig took an interest in the Nixon tapes. He encouraged students and historians to study these materials in their proper context in order to more fully understand the administration of the thirty-seventh president. In fact, at the time of his death nixontapes.org was in the process of providing General Haig with a complete set of the conversations in which he was a participant.

The first portion of this collection is available below, including all of the telephone conversations captured by Nixon's various taping systems. Below you can find the complete collection of the telephone conversations Haig made or received that were captured by the recording system in the Oval Office, the Executive Office Building, the Lincoln Sitting Room, and at Camp David. Most of the conversations are between President Nixon and Alexander Haig, but there were also other participants, too.

Highlights from the telephone conversations include Haig telling President Nixon about the publication of the Pentagon Papers, numerous conversations related to ongoing Vietnam negotiations, and the General's participation in the advance trip to China in early 1972. The conversations also document Haig's far-ranging role as the president's contact for foreign affairs issues when Henry Kissinger was away. As the number two official at the National Security Council, Haig functioned as a liaison between the president and Kissinger when Kissinger was on secret trips to Beijing and Moscow to arrange summit meetings, and during Kissinger's negotiating sessions in Paris with the North Vietnamese.

For a key to participants' names, click here (136k).

Conversation Number

Date

Time

Participants Summary
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001-055 04/09/1971 10:03 - 10:27 am P, AMH doc (25k) mp3 (149k)
042-082 04/29/1971 6:32 - 6:37 pm P, AMH doc (25k) mp3 (1.9m)
003-063 05/19/1971 8:52 - 8:53 am P, AMH doc (27k) mp3 (191k)
005-050 06/13/1971 Unk between 12:18 pm and 12:42 pm P, AMH doc (27k) mp3 (2.2m)
006-026 06/29/1971 5:03 - 5:06 pm P, AMH doc (27k) mp3 (2.9m)
006-038 06/30/1971 Unk between 9:23 am and 9:45 am P, HAK, WHO, AMH doc (26k) mp3 (878k)
006-138 07/03/1971 6:55 - 6:56 pm P, AMH doc (26k) mp3 (372k)
006-153 07/05/1971 9:08 - 9:13 pm P, AMH doc (28k) mp3 (4.0m)
007-002 07/26/1971 7:37 - 7:41 pm P, AMH doc (27k) mp3 (3.8m)
009-015 09/15/1971 11:59 am - 12:01 pm P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (1.7m)
009-017 09/15/1971 12:18 - 12:20 pm P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (1.4m)
009-019 09/15/1971 12:24 - 12:25 pm P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (930k)
009-021 09/15/1971 12:37 - 12:39 pm P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (1.3m)
009-023 09/15/1971 2:32 - 2:33 pm P, AMH doc (23k) mp3 (299k)
009-025 09/15/1971 2:37 - 2:38 pm P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (675k)
009-052 09/15/1971 9:17 - 9:19 pm P, WHO, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (3.0m)
012-109 10/25/1971 12:15 - 12:17 pm P, AMH, Unk doc (25k) mp3 (1.9m)
012-117 10/25/1971 3:12 - 3:15 pm P, WHO, AMH doc (25k) mp3 (2.9m)
012-126 10/25/1971 7:27 - 7:34 pm P, WHO, AMH doc (26k) mp3 (6.5m)
013-003 10/26/1971 10:15 - 10:16 am P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (964k)
013-006 10/26/1971 Unk between 10:18 am and 11:03 am P, AMH doc (23k) mp3 (445k)
013-122 11/04/1971 Unk between 4:02 pm and 4:39 pm AMH, WHO, P, KAB, PGP doc (24k) mp3 (1.3m)
017-028 12/24/1971 5:01 - 5:08 pm P, AMH doc (27k) mp3 (6.4m)
018-052 01/10/1972 5:27 - 5:28 pm P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (567k)
019-061 01/25/1972 6:31 - 6:34 pm WHO, RMW, AMH, P doc (25k) mp3 (3.6m)
019-069 01/25/1972 Unk between 8:55 pm and 10:03 pm HAK, WHO, P, MMM, AMH doc (25k) mp3 (2.8m)
019-096 01/26/1972 10:42 - 10:43 am P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (706k)
020-084 02/09/1972 2:52 - 2:57 pm P, AMH doc (27k) mp3 (4.9m)
020-125 02/29/1972 8:48 - 8:52 pm P, AMH doc (26k) mp3 (2.8m)
021-015 03/07/1972 2:26 - 2:27 pm P, AMH doc (26k) mp3 (2.0m)
023-149 04/20/1972 12:07 - 12:08 pm P, AMH doc (23k) mp3 (235k)
023-113 05/02/1972 4:40 - 4:44 pm P, AMH doc (23k) mp3 (615k)
023-114 05/02/1972 4:49 - 4:51 pm P, AMH doc (25k) mp3 (2.3m)
023-162 05/04/1972 Unk between 3:55 pm and 5:25 pm AMH, WHO, MHartley doc (23k) mp3 (641k)
023-168 05/05/1972 3:25 - 3:26 pm P, AMH doc (23k) mp3 (419k)
024-139 05/16/1972 8:11 - 8:12 am P, AMH doc (25k) mp3 (260k)
131-014 05/17/1972 5:48 - 5:57 pm P, AMH doc (30k) mp3 (8.5m)
027-007 07/19/1972 2:10 - 2:12 pm P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (6.8m)
027-067 07/26/1972 8:04 - 8:06 am P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (176k)
137-018 08/13/1972 10:19 - 10:22 am P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (2.6m)
140-005 08/16/1972 8:21 - 8:29 am P, AMH doc (28k) mp3 (7.3m)
031-076 10/16/1972 Unk between 5:08 pm and 5:14 pm P, WHO, AMH doc (23k) mp3 (1.1m)
031-112 10/17/1972 8:37 - 8:40 pm P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (2.9m)
031-115 10/18/1972 9:03 - 9:07 am P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (4.4m)
031-139 10/19/1972 10:52 - 10:53 am P, AMH doc (23k) mp3 (201k)
151-003 10/21/1972 5:39 - 5:47 pm P, AMH doc (25k) mp3 (7.5m)
032-001 10/20/1972 3:06 - 3:10 pm P, WHO, AMH doc (26k) mp3 (4.6m)
151-007 10/22/1972 12:22 - 12:27 am P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (4.7m)
151-011 10/22/1972 10:10 - 10:16 am P, AMH doc (25k) mp3 (5.3m)
032-027 10/24/1972 7:31 - 7:33 pm P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (1.6m)
032-055 10/26/1972 2:40 - 2:41 pm P, AMH doc (23k) mp3 (327k)
032-057 10/26/1972 2:50 - 2:51 pm P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (1.2m)
032-061 10/26/1972 3:28 - 3:29 pm P, AMH doc (23k) mp3 (493k)
034-005 11/29/1972 7:53 - 7:55 pm P, AMH doc (25k) mp3 (541k)
034-045 12/11/1972 5:21 - 5:29 pm P, AMH doc (26k) mp3 (1.4m)
034-047 12/11/1972 5:37 - 5:42 pm P, AMH doc (25k) mp3 (1.0m)
034-054 12/12/1972 8:31 - 8:38 pm P, AMH doc (27k) mp3 (1.5m)
034-062 12/13/1972 11:26 - 11:28 am P, AMH doc (25k) mp3 (455k)
034-069 12/13/1972 8:55 - 9:07 pm P, AMH doc (28k) mp3 (2.9m)
160-015 01/06/1973 3:39 - 3:44 pm P, AMH doc (26k) mp3 (3.2m)
036-033 01/21/1973 2:27 - 2:33 pm P, AMH doc (27k) mp3 (3.9m)
036-037 01/22/1973 Unk between 9:10 am and 9:47 am P, AMH doc (26k) mp3 (3.8m)
036-053 01/22/1973 6:19 - 6:22 pm P, AMH doc (26k) mp3 (1.7m)
036-071 01/23/1973 12:08 - 12:09 pm P, AMH doc (24k) mp3 (162k)

 

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