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 |
Download Audio
|
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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