Conversation: 165-015
Prev: 165-014 Next: 165-016Start Date: Saturday, May 12, 1973 4:22 PM
End Date: Saturday, May 12, 1973 4:30 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On May 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at Camp David from 12:22 pm to 12:30 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 165-015 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 165-15
Date: May 12, 1973
Time: 12:22 pm - 12:30 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The Camp David operator talked with the President.
Telephone call from Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger talked with the President.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-15 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Kissinger’s press briefing
-Wiretaps
-Morton H. Halperin
-Kissinger’s access to intelligence reports
-National security
-Halperin
-Departure from Kissinger’s staff
-William D. Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement
Kissinger’s press briefing
-Forthcoming Soviet summit
-President’s preparations
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
Watergate
-Wiretaps
-Compared with previous administrations
-Number
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Leaks
-Kissinger
-Mood
Kissinger’s press briefing
-Forthcoming Soviet summit
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
Watergate
-Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement
-Wiretaps
-William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake
-Possible list
-Release
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
Conversation No. 165-15 (cont’d)
-Henry Brandon
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Reports
-Possible conversation with Kissinger
Kissinger’s schedule
Watergate
-Possible effect on administration
Foreign relations
-Kissinger’s role
-Forthcoming Soviet summit
-Defense Department and State Department
-SALT
-Kissinger’s conversations
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer and William P. Clements, Jr.
-Timing of agreement
-Le Duc Tho
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s press briefing
-Cambodian agreement
-House of Representatives
-Leverage