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Start Date: 9-May-1973 7:38 AM

End Date: 9-May-1973 7:56 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: White House Telephone

045-166.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 9, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 7:38 am to 7:56 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-166 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 45-166

Date: May 9, 1973
Time: 7:38 am - 7:56 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

     Watergate      

          -Haldeman’s forthcoming Grand Jury appearance 

          -John D. Ehrlichman’s Grand Jury appearance 

          -Grand Jury       

          -Prosecutors       

                -John W. Dean, III             

                      -Immunity            

          -Dean       

                -Senate immunity             

                -Haldeman and Ehrlichman               

          -White House counterattack             

                -President’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. 

                -Spiro T. Agnew, John B. Connally 

                -Incoming mail

                -Dean’s papers           

                      -Possible use of President’s records
          -Executive privilege         

                -Discussion of illegal activities        

                -Haldeman’s notes              

          -President’s papers        

                -Ownership        

                      -Haig       

                -Description        

                      -Haldeman’s log              

                      -Memorandums               

                      -Haldeman’s notes              

          -President’s conversation with Haig 

                -President’s Septemeber 15, 1972 meeting with Dean 

                -President’s schedule, September 15, 1972 

                      -September 15 meeting with Pete Daley, Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler
                        and Dean
                               -106-

       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                         Tape Subject Log
                        (rev. October-2012)

                                               Conversation No. 45-166 (cont’d)

      -President’s September 15, 1972 meeting with Dean 

             -Topics      

             -Funds for defendants     

-Herbert W. Kalmbach
      -Possible testimony by Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Prosecutors
      -Interest in President
-Interest in President
      -Press
      -Dean
-Dean’s conversations with President
      -Haldeman’s recollections
      -Kalmbach’s fundraising
      -Dean’s memorandum of conversation [memcon]
-President’s papers
      -Ehrlichman and Haldeman’s notes
      -Leonard Garment
      -Haig
      -[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-President’s March 21, 1973, conversation with Dean and Haldeman
      -Ziegler
      -President’s motives
      -President reaction
             -Unites States Attorney
-White House counterattack
      -Cover-up
-Cover-up
      -Dean, John N. Mitchell
      -Dean’s possible testimony
             -Ehrlichman, Haldeman
      -Ehrlichman and Haldeman’s motives
-Dean’s September 15, 1972 conversation with President and Haldeman
-Watergate break-in
      -President’s concern
      -White House staff handling       

             -Stories on Dwight L. Chapin and Donald H. Segretti 

             -Stories on Haldeman, Maurice H. Stans 

      -Knowledge of funds for defendants 

      -Kalmbach         

                                               -107-


                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                       Tape Subject Log 

                                      (rev. October-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 45-166 (cont’d)

                       -Haldeman, Ehrlichman
                       -Knowledge of use of funds
                 -$350,000
                       -Haldeman’s knowledge of use
                 -President’s March 21, 1973 meeting with Dean and Haldeman
           -President’s papers     

                 -Haldeman’s notes       

                 -Henry A. Kissinger’s notes