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Start Date: 23-May-1973 10:55 AM

End Date: 23-May-1973 11:12 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Woods, Rose Mary

Recording Device: Oval Office

926-005.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 23, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:55 am to 11:12 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 926-005 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 926-5

Date: May 23, 1973
Time: 10:55 am - 11:12 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

          Greeting

[Pause]
                                           -11-


                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                    Tape Subject Log 

                                    (rev. August-2011)

                                                            Conversation No. 926-5 (cont’d)


      President’s schedule       

             -Weather         

             -Prisoners of war [POW] dinner 



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      Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox 

              -Schedule      


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      Watergate       

            -Tom A. Pappas          

                   -Funds for defendants         

                           -John N. Mitchell         

            -Meeting with President, March 7 

                   -Subjects discussed
                           -Henry J. Tasca
                           -Watergate
                           -Fund-raising
                   -Investigators’ possible questions
            -Funds for defendants        

                   -Herbert W. Kalmbach            

                   -Participants’ motives        

            -Pappas
                   -Possible conversation with President
                   -Possible conversation with Woods
                           -Pappas’s meeting with the President, March 7
                           -John W. Dean III’s knowledge
                                                       -12-


                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                              Tape Subject Log 

                                              (rev. August-2011)

                                                                             Conversation No. 926-5 (cont’d)

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        United States Secret Service [USSS]
               -Contact
                       -Kalmbach
                       -[Unintelligible name]
                       -[San Clemente]
                       -Kalmbach
                       -Personal attorney
                       -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
                       -Robert H. Abplanalp
                              -Rebozo
                                      -Knowledge
                       -Woods’s conversation with Bobbie [?] [no last name]
                              -Rebozo
                                      -President’s personal affairs

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        Weather     

              -POW dinner                 


        Watergate       

              -President’s family’s reaction                   

                              -13-

    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                       Tape Subject Log
                       (rev. August-2011)

                                                Conversation No. 926-5 (cont’d)

-White House staff reaction
       -Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Ronald L. Ziegler, Patrick J. Buchanan and
         Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-White House opponents
       -Committees
       -Inquisition
       -[Unintelligible name]
               -Heroism
-Public opinion
-White House response
       -Testimony
       -President’s possible resignation         

               -Spiro T. Agnew             

               -Effect        

                       -US foreign policy
-Double agents
-James W. McCord, Jr.
       -Public opinion
               -Telephone calls to Woods
-Ervin Committee
       -Questions to McCord
               -Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-White House response
-Public support for President
       -James (“Jimmy”) Stewart              

               -Prayers           

               -Masses           

       -Woods’s friend, Sue [surname unknown] 

               -New York            

               -Hairdresser           

       -Congress
       -President’s visit to Norfolk, Virginia 

               -Crowds           

               -Attacks on President           

       -Vietnam settlement             

               -Peace          

               -Soviet Union             

                                            -14-


                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. August-2011)

                                                            Conversation No. 926-5 (cont’d)

                     -Public opinion         

                     -Daniel Ellsberg case       

                             -W. Matthew Byrne         

              -Possible future allegations     

                     -Haig         

                     -White House response         

              -Washington, D.C.          

              -Support for President       


Woods left at 11:12 am.