Conversation: 926-005
Prev: 926-004 Next: 926-006Start 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
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]
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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
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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
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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
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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.