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Start Date: 3-May-1973 10:13 AM

End Date: 3-May-1973 10:21 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Rogers, William P.

Recording Device: White House Telephone

045-157.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 3, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and William P. Rogers talked on the telephone from 10:13 am to 10:21 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-157 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 45-157

Date: May 3, 1973
Time: 10:13 am - 10:21 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See also Conversation No. 911-11]

     Personnel appointments
          -President’s conversation with David Packard 

                -Stocks      

                -Packard’s schedule       

                      -Rogers, Elliot L. Richardson, John C. Stennis
                -Stocks
                      -Rogers’s conversation with [David] Kenneth Rush
                      -Previous agreements
                                 -98-

        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                          Tape Subject Log
                         (rev. October-2012)

                                                 Conversation No. 45-157 (cont’d)

                 -Charitable contributions
-Rush
      -Comparison with Packard
      -Strength
            -F. Edward Hébert
-Packard
      -President’s need for resolution
            -Stocks
-John W. Byrnes
      -Conversation with Rogers
            -Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker case
                  -Conflict
-Bryce N. Harlow
      -Conversation with Rogers
            -Return to service
-White House Counsel
      -Lawrence Edmund (“Ed”) Walsh
            -International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
                  -Meeting with John N. Mitchell or Richard G. Kleindienst
      -Morality of staff

            -Morons, paupers, thieves        

            -Priests      

      -Walsh
-President’s schedule        

      -Vacation       

-White House Counsel           

      -Walsh
            -Background          

                  -Deputy Attorney General       

                  -Congress        

                  -Federal Judge         

                  -Thomas E. Dewey         

                         -Lawyer       

                  -New York Crime Commission         

            -President’s respect       

                  -Past lunch       

                         -Ice cream
-President’s schedule
-Rogers’s calls
                                                      -99-


                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. October-2012)

                                                              Conversation No. 45-157 (cont’d)

                -Byrnes      

                -Harlow      

                      -Finances    

                -George H. W. Bush            



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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

    John B. Connally 

         -Telephone call from Rogers 

         -Switch in party registration 

               -Spiro T. Agnew         

         -Agnew’s statement         

               -Man of the Year Award
                     -Baltimore Press Association
                     -John V. Lindsay

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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    Packard

    Agnew      

        -Telephone call to Rogers 

              -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.               

        -Role on Domestic Council 

              -Involvement       


    Rogers’s Latin American trip 

         -Rogers’s call to Connally 

         -President’s [foreign policy report] 


    Watergate
         -Daniel Ellsberg break-in        

              -Disclosure       

              -Reaction       

                                               -100-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                        Tape Subject Log 

                                       (rev. October-2012)