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Start Date: 20-May-1973 4:11 PM

End Date: 20-May-1973 4:21 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

167-025.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone at Camp David from 4:11 pm to 4:21 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 167-025 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 167-25

Date: May 20, 1973
Time: 4:11pm - 4:21 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

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

     Watergate      

          -Haldeman’s attempts to talk with John D. Ehrlichman 

                -Ehrlichman’s location      

                      -Justin W. Dart     

                      -Los Angeles Grand Jury       

          -President’s knowledge
                -Daniel Ellsberg break-in
          -Herbert W. Kalmbach
                -Telephone call from John W. Dean, III
                      -Ehrlichman’s role
                -President’s knowledge
          -Executive privilege
                -White House staff members’ notes of conversations with President
                                       -22-

             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. March-2011)



                 -Haldeman’s instructions
                 -Charles W. Colson’s notes
                      -Location
                      -President’s forthcoming conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

Haldeman’s schedule
     -Tennis

Weather

Watergate
     -White House response
           -Forthcoming White Paper
                 -Cover-up
     -Ervin Committee hearings          

           -Popular opinion        

           -Witness schedule          

                 -James W. McCord, Jr.
                 -John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield
                 -Bernard L. Barker
                 -Sally Harmony
                 -Jeb S. Magruder’s assistant, Robert Reisner
           -Schedule        

     -Grand Jury’s schedule         

           -Archibald Cox        

     -President’s conversation with Henry E. Petersen 

           -Conflicting evidence         

     -Ervin Committee hearings          

           -Witness schedule          

                 -Magruder         

                 -Dean        

                 -John N. Mitchell         

                 -Ehrlichman and Haldeman         

     -National security
     -Wiretaps
           -President’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. regarding Henry A.
            Kissinger
     -Haldeman and Ehrlichman
           -Schedule
                 -McClellan Committee
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. March-2011)



                       -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson       

                 -Possible testimony      

                       -Executive privilege    

           -Jackson       

           -W[illiam] Stuart Symington      


     Ehrlichman’s schedule       

           -California