Conversation: 168-011
Prev: 168-010 Next: 168-012Start Date: 2-Jun-1973 10:54 AM
End Date: 2-Jun-1973 11:13 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On June 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 10:54 am and 11:13 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 168-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 168-11
Date: June 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:54 am and 11:13 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Watergate
Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman’s television [TV] appearances
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II’s opinion
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s opinion
-Robert E. Cushman
-Cushman
-Testimony
-Conflict with Ehrlichman
-Haig
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-11 (cont’d)
-Testimony
-John L. McClellan and John O. Pastore
-McClellan
-Pastore
-Bay of Pigs
-McClellan
-President’s possible testimony
-National security
-Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming Grand Jury testimony in Los Angeles
-National security
-TV appearance
-Haldeman
-Testimony
-Statement
-Denials
-John W. Dean, III
-Ehrlichman
-Statements concerning Dean
-Haldeman
-Testimony
-Pastore
-McClellan
-Presumed guilt of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters
-Denials
-Statement
-Strategy
-John A. Scali’s advice
-TV coverage
-McClellan
-Ehrlichman
-Newsmen’s questions
-Coverage
-Haldeman
-Lawyers’ advice
-Statements
-Release
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-11 (cont’d)
-Testimony
-Pastore’s question
-Individuals knowledge
-Walters
-Compared to Cushman
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Pastore
-President’s possible testimony
-McClellan
-Compared to Haldeman’s testimony
-Haldeman
-Testimony
-Memory
-President’s memory
-Concerns of administration
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Sally H. Harmony
-Robert Riesner, Jeb Stuart Magruder’s assistant
-Strategy
-Witness list
-Dean and Magruder
-Immunity
-Immunity
-Procedures for judge
-Magruder and Dean
-Possible indictments
-Archibald Cox’s intentions
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Statement by Edward J. Gurney and Herman E. Talmadge
-Witness list
-Strategy
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s response
-Gurney, Talmadge
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Ervin
-John N. Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Dean, Charles W. Colson
-President’s knowledge
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-11 (cont’d)
-Dean
-Contacts with President
-Content
-Huston plan
-Huston plan
-Ervin’s opinion
-White House response
-Justification
-George H. W. Bush
-Statement
-Press coverage
-Christian Science Monitor
-President and national security
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Statements by Haldeman, Ehrlichman Colson, Mitchell
-Ervin Committee
-Ervin
-Motives
-Compared to Gurney and Talmadge
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Actions
-Support for Ervin
-Gurney and Talmadge
-New York Times editorial on Gurney and Talmadge action
-Popular opinion
-New York Times, Washington Post, TV networks
-President’s trip to Iceland
-Bryce N. Harlow’s view
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee hearings
-Cox and Dash
-Effect of hearings on possible trials
-Mitchell
-Columns
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Mitchell
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Testimony
-Haig
-Cushman
-Possible release
-Statements
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-11 (cont’d)
-Content
-Press coverage
-Haldeman’s meeting with Richard M. Helms and Cushman
-Haldeman’s previous meeting with Dean
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] concern regarding Central
Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Haldeman’s testimony
-Haldeman’s subsequent meeting with Ehrlichman, Helms, and Walters
-FBI concern, in regards to CIA
-President’s statement
-Dean
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s testimony
-Haldeman’s testimony
-Interrogations
-CIA request
-Covert activities
-Watergate
-Walters
-Dean’s meeting with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s subsequent meeting with the President
-President’s instructions concerning Haldeman, Ehrlichman,
Helms, and Walters
-President’s meeting with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s testimony
-Haldeman’s role
-Gray’s testimony
-Dean
-Ehrlichman’s testimony