Conversation: 046-168
Prev: 046-167 Next: 046-169Start Date: 22-May-1973 8:39 PM
End Date: 22-May-1973 8:54 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Harlow, Bryce N.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On May 22, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Bryce N. Harlow talked on the telephone from 8:39 pm to 8:54 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 046-168 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 46-168
Date: May 22, 1973
Time: 8:39 pm -8 :54 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Bryce N. Harlow.
Watergate
-Harlow’s statements
-Firing of Sherman Adams
-President’s role
-Harlow’s statements
-Support for the President
-Allies
-Congress
-Harlow’s conversation with Daniel H. Kuykendall
-President’s statement on Watergate
-Kuykendall’s forthcoming conversations
-George H. W. Bush, Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford
-Telegram
-Kuykendall’s family’s reaction to the President’s statement
-Kuykendall and wife
-Birch society
-White House statement on Watergate
-President’s forthcoming press conference
-Possible future revelations
-Ervin Committee
-President’s possible actions
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Charles W. Colson
-Possible actions
-Ervin Committee
-President’s possible actions
-Mood of nation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 46-168 (cont’d)
-President’s possible resignation
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Harlow’s view
-President’s role
-President’s statement
-Dissemination
-Kuykendall
-Possible form of support
-Statement
-Press coverage
-Bush, Scott, and Ford
-Kuykendall’s reaction
-President’s actions as Vice President
-John F. Dulles, Adams, and Dwight D. Eisenhower
-President’s subordinates
-Job status
-President’s statement
-Ervin Committee
-President’s possible actions
-Testimony
-Effect on presidency
-Harlow’s and William E. Timmons’s conversation with Congressional
leaders
-Bush’s view
-Griffin’s and Scott’s view
-Ford’s and Leslie C. Arends’s view
-Bush’s view
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Presidency
-President’s statement
-“Nervous in the service”
-Harlow’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-President’s schedule
-Congressional leaders
-Camp David
-Griffin’s view
-Visit with the President
-Relationship
-Harlow’s possible role
-Haig
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 46-168 (cont’d)
-Harlow’s schedule
-Harlow’s conversation with Haig
-Harlow’s conversation with southern chairmen
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Harlow’s possible role
-Harlow’s possible role