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
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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
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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