Conversation: 153-048
Prev:  153-047 Next: 153-049Start Date: 17-Nov-1972 6:20 PM
End Date: 17-Nov-1972 6:24 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On November 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone at Camp David from 6:20 pm to 6:24 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 153-048 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 153-48 Date: November 17, 1972 Time: 6:20 pm - 6:24 pm Location: Camp David Study Table The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. [See Conversation No. 226-15] Second term reorganization -William P. Rogers’s tenure as Secretary of State -Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Rogers -The President’s recent meetings -Cabinet -Status -Peter G. Peterson -Rogers C. B. Morton -James D. Hodgson -Rogers’s role -Defense of colleagues, November 16, 1972 -Departures -Rogers’s role -Defense of colleagues -53- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Mar.-08) Conversation No. 153-48 (cont’d) -Sincerity -Meeting with Haldeman -Time -Elliott L. Richardson -The President’s decisions -Charles W. Colson -John B. Connally’s view -Politics -Replacement -Indispensability -Changes in Cabinet and White House staff -Timing -Congressional relations -Departure -Timing -Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, the President -Departure from administration -Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman -Connally -The President’s loyalty -Chances of firing -Ehrlichman -Replacement -Recommendation Meeting with labor, ethnic leaders -Camp David or White House dinner -Discussion of Colson’s future -The President’s role Personnel management -Paul H. Nitze’s recent meeting with John N. Mitchell -Nitze’s interview of [John Newhouse] -Brookings Institute -Manuscript on Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] [Cold Dawn: The Story of SALT] -Quotations -National Security Study Memoranda [NSSMs], negotiating transcripts -Henry A. Kissinger’s alleged influence -Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger -54- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Mar.-08) Conversation No. 153-48 (cont’d) -Possible leak -Nitze’s concern -Publication in April, 1973 -Possible impact on negotiations with Soviet Union -Instruction to Haldeman -Kissinger’s contact with Haldeman Haldeman’s schedule -Return to Washington, DC -Time Rogers -Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman -Possible resignation -Rogers’s action on November 16, 1972 -Terms -State Department