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Start Date: 13-May-1973 10:21 AM

End Date: 13-May-1973 10:39 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

165-038.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:21 am to 10:39 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 165-038 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 165-38

Date: May 13, 1973
Time: 10:21 am - 10:39 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

     Haldeman’s schedule        

          -Presence of press        


     President’s previous call to Ronald L. Ziegler
           -Washington Post headlines 

                 -Forthcoming Soviet summit         

                 -Election Reform Commission          


     Watergate
          -Press coverage
                -President’s conversation with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo, May 12
          -Ervin Committee hearings
                -Possible testimony by Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
                      -Executive privilege
                      -Papers
                               -42-

       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                        Tape Subject Log
                       (rev. February-2012)

                                               Conversation No. 165-38 (cont’d)

-Haldeman’s conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr., May 11
-Haldeman
      -Forthcoming Grand Jury testimony
-Ehrlichman’s Grand Jury testimony
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
      -Meeting with Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Richard M. Helms 

      -Memoranda of conversation [memcons]            

      -Schedule, May 11          

            -President and Buzhardt
      -Memcons
            -Contents
                    -Possible headlines
            -President’s conversation with Haig, May 10
      -President’s conversation with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
            -Helms
-Haldeman
      -Forthcoming testimony           

            -Executive privilege         

            -Meeting with Ehrlichman, Walters and Helms 

-John W. Dean, III
      -Contacts with Walters         

            -Burglars and attorneys’ fees      

            -President’s knowledge          

            -Walters’s memcons           

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
      -White House knowledge of involvement
            -Motives behind Haldeman’s meeting
-Dean
      -Role       

            -Meeting with L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III 

            -John D. Ehrlichman           

            -John N. Mitchell’s role         

                    -Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Kalmbach
      -Conversations
            -Haldeman, Dean, Ehrlichman and President
                                            -43-


                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                    (rev. February-2012)

                                                            Conversation No. 165-38 (cont’d)

           -White House response        

                 -Executive privilege       

                 -Election Committee         

                       -Leonard Garment           

                 -Buzhardt        

                       -Conversations with President      

                 -Executive privilege       

                       -National security        

                             -Henry A. Kissinger      

           -Haldeman’s conversation with Taft Schreiber 

                 -Leonard K. Firestone         

           -News leads        

           -White House response        

           -Impeachment         

                 -President’s conversatioin with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                       -Edward W. Brooke
           -Haldeman and Ehrlichman
                 -Feelings
           -Press coverage        

                 -Jo Anne (Horton) Haldeman         

                 -Mother’s Day        

                 -Presence of press