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Conversation: 165-015

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Start Date: 12-May-1973 12:22 PM

End Date: 12-May-1973 12:30 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

165-015.mp3

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