Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 37 › Conversation 037-069

Nixon phone call with Rebozo on Salaries and H. R. Haldeman

Friday, March 9, 1973 · 2:16 PM–2:18 PM ET · White House Telephone · 2 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Rebozo, Charles G. ("Bebe")Conversation037-069 on Tape 37StartFriday, March 9, 1973 at 2:16 PMEndFriday, March 9, 1973 at 2:18 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 037-069 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417195279 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon consulted with his close friend Charles G. "Bebe" Rebozo regarding internal salary adjustments, confirming that compensation had already increased from 28 to 32 since their previous review. Nixon noted that he had tasked H.R. Haldeman with investigating the matter to ensure the pay structure remained appropriate. Additionally, Rebozo shared that a telegram from the President, facilitated by Rose Mary Woods, had been successfully delivered to Desi Arnaz prior to his emergency brain surgery.

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NARA Description

On March 9, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo talked on the telephone from 2:16 pm to 2:18 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-069 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 37-69

Date: March 9, 1973
Time: 2:16 pm-2:18 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo.

[See Conversation No. 418-5A]

       Salaries
               -Rise over years
               -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift during
chronological review 2007-2013]

       Rose Mary Woods
             -Call from Desi Arnaz
                     -Baja, California
                     -Health
                     -Telegram from President
                             -Reaction
                             -Praise

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       Salaries
               -Raise
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

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Hello?
Make a rebound, sister.
Hello?
Hello?
Yes, sir, how are you?
You at the bank?
Yes, sir.
I checked that matter out on that salary thing.
Uh-huh.
And I found that we've raised from 28 to 32 since we've been there.
Do you think you ought to raise it more?
No, I don't think so at all.
But, you know, it's just more of the same.
It's more of the same.
But I thought you'd be interested to know.
I had a check.
I had Haldeman check.
Well, I hadn't seen that.
Well, I checked it, and I said, well, look, what's the score?
He said, well, we raised from 28 to 32, so we can raise a little more.
But it's very difficult because you see you then get to the level where you just haven't got any, you know.
No, no, no.
You shouldn't worry about things like that.
I just want to see Haldeman possibly.
Right.
That's right.
How are you doing otherwise?
The nice thing this morning, incidentally, is that you might need to look.
Rose did a very nice thing.
I called her because he called me from Baja, California.
He had a sudden illness, a brain tumor and all, and he asked me to see if I could get the finest doctors and all.
So I met with him.
He came in.
I spent the last couple of days with him, and they operated this morning.
But Desi said if he could just get a telegram.
Oh, of course.
So Rose had a beautiful telegram.
He got it just before he went into surgery, and he was just so...
Isn't that great?
Isn't that great?
Well, that's great.
Well, we do that all the time, you know.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Oh, I know that.
I just wanted to see what your advice was because, you know, we can, hell, it's not our money, it's yours.
Okay.
All right.
Take care.

Also recorded on March 9, 1973

  • 874-026 2:03 PM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:03 pm and 2:10 pm.
  • 874-029 2:10 PM · 1 min — unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:10 pm and 3:10 pm.
  • 037-068 2:12 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:12 pm and 2:15 pm.
  • 418-003 2:12 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:12 pm and 2:15 pm.
  • 418-004 2:12 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:12 pm and 2:15 pm.
  • 418-005 2:15 PM · 50 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, Henry A. Kissinger, White House operator, William Downey, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Thomas J. Meskill met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:15 pm and 3:05 pm.
  • 037-070 2:35 PM · 25 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 2:46 pm.
  • 037-071 2:35 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and William Downey talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 2:46 pm.

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Conversation 037-069, March 9, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417195279). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-069 (accessed November 1, 2026).