Conversation: 167-010
Prev: 167-009 Next: 167-011Start Date: 20-May-1973 12:26 PM
End Date: 20-May-1973 12:54 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On May 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone at Camp David from 12:26 pm to 12:54 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 167-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 167-10
Date: May 20, 1973
Time: 12:26 pm - 12:54 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Haldeman’s schedule
-Church
Watergate
-Newsmen’s questions to Haldeman
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-President’s knowledge and activities
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-President’s possible meeting with congressional leaders
-National security
-President’s role
-President’s orders to Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman regarding
Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters and Richard M. Helms
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-Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcon]
-Possible implications
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Plumbers
-Haldeman’s possible conversation with Ehrlichman
-President’s call to Henry E. Petersen, April 18
-Ehrlichman
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-John W. Dean, III’s documents
-Huston plan
-Haldeman’s memorandum to Tom C. Huston
-Termination
-Implementation
-President’s approval
-J. Edgar Hoover’s view
-John N. Mitchell’s possible call to President
-Haldeman’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s investigation
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Plumbers
-President’s motive
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Ehrlichman’s possible conversation with President
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman
-President’s knowledge
-National security
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-$350,000
-President’s knowledge
-Haldeman’s testimony
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Watergate
-$350,000
-Dean’s conversation with President
-Clemency
-President’s role
-Conversations with President
-Ehrlichman
-Dean’s allegation regarding Ehrlichman and President
-Charles W. Colson’s conversation with President
-Hunt
-Dorothy Hunt
-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield’s possible testimony
-Dean
-Dean
-Ehrlichman
-Mitchell
-Mitchell’s conversations with President
-Press report
-Lie detector tests for leaks
-Foreign implications
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-President’s conversations with Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Possible conversation with President
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-President’s knowledge of activities
-Haldeman’s meeting with Ehrlichman, Helms and Walters
-Reasons
-Connection with Bay of Pigs
-Mexican money
-CIA involvement
-National security
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
-Cover-up
-Helms
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Conversation No. 167-10 (cont’d)
-CIA payroll
-Dean’s plan
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman’s possible testimony
-Clemency
-Kalmbach
-President’s knowledge
-Ellsberg break-in
-President’s knowledge
-White House response
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Wiretaps
-Plumbers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Morality of wiretaps
-Forthcoming meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Concern with leaks
-National Security Study Memorandum [NSSM]
Kissinger’s Paris meeting
-Cease-fire
-Announcement
President’s schedule
-Prisoner of War [POW] dinner
-President’s visit to Norfolk, Virginia, May 19
-Support for President
Watergate
-Effects
-Politicians
-Press
-Confidence
-Stock market
-Compared with Cambodian invasion
Robert H. Finch
-Conversation with Haig, May 20
-Conversation with President
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-Political plans
-Governorship
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President’s schedule
-President’s visit to Norfolk, May 19
Watergate
-President’s possible resignation
-Effects
-White House response
-Haldeman’s lawyers
-John J. Wilson
-Opinion of Archibald Cox
-Cox
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with W. Matthew Byrne, Jr.
-President’s explanation to Ronald L. Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-Concern with President’s view of national security
-Henry E. Petersen
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-National security