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Start Date: 12-May-1973 11:50 AM

End Date: 12-May-1973 11:56 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ash, Roy L.

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

165-012.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Roy L. Ash talked on the telephone at Camp David from 11:50 am to 11:56 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 165-012 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 165-12

Date: May 12, 1973
Time: 11:50 am - 11:56 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Roy L. Ash.

     Previous Cabinet meeting 

           -Office of Management and Budget [OMB] 

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


     Ash’s activities    

          -Cabinet     

          -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. 


     National economy       

          -Controls      

                     -Fuel Oil Supplies
                -Energy
                -Ash’s forthcoming call to John B. Connally
                     -Freeze
                            -President’s resisntance
                -George P. Shultz and Herbert G. Stein 

          -Government’s role        

          -Controls      

                -Albert Sindlinger’s view       

                     -Psychological boost from freeze       

                            -Ash’s view       


     Watergate     

          -Maurice H. Stans         

                                            -17-


                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                    (rev. February-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 165-12 (cont’d)

           -John N. Mitchell
                 -Martha (“Beall”) Mitchell      

           -Robert L. Vesco        

           -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman 

                 -Departures from office     

                       -Effect on families     

                       -Conversation with Ash      

                             -Shultz      

                       -President’s decision     


     Previous Cabinet meeting 

           -Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger 

                -Role on White House staff 


     President’s domestic counselors 

           -Weinberger, Shultz and Leonard Garment 

           -Ash’s forthcoming call to Weinberger 

                 -Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] [?]