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Start Date: 13-May-1973 4:11 PM

End Date: 13-May-1973 4:16 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

166-002.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone at Camp David from 4:11 pm to 4:16 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 166-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 166-2

Date: May 13, 1973
Time: 4:11 pm - 4:16 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

     Mother’s Day       

          -Weather          


     Visitors     

           -[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II and Julie Nixon Eisenhower 

           -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo 


     President’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. 

           -Watergate       


     Haig      

            -Woods’s opinion      


     Election Reform Commission 

           -President’s forthcoming speech      

                 -Patrick J. Buchanan, Leonard Garment, and Raymond K. Price, Jr. 

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              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. March-2012)

                                                      Conversation No. 166-2 (cont’d)

            -Woods’s schedule

Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
     -Woods’s conversation with William E. Timmons
          -The President’s possible telephone call compared with Woods’s

Woods’s telephone calls
    -Mail
    -Typing

Anthony J. Russo, Jr.
     -Forthcoming meeting with Angela Davis
     -Daniel Ellsberg

Ellsberg
      -Results of trial
      -William M. Byrne, Jr.
            -Woods’s opinion

Waggonner
    -Woods’s conversation with Timmons
    -Support for President
          -Southerners      

    -President’s forthcoming call  


President’s mail
      -Instructions for Woods

Watergate
     -Woods’s possible telephone calls 

           -Haig and Timmons          

           -President’s supporters        

     -President’s possible resignation        

           -President’s opponents         

           -Spiro T. Agnew        

     -President’s opponents’ actions        

           -Woods’s assessment          

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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. March-2012)

                                                          Conversation No. 166-2 (cont’d)

                       -Conspiracy
                            -Congress
                            -Press and television [TV]
                            -Communists