Conversation: 167-010
Prev:  167-009 Next: 167-011Start Date: 20-May-1973 12:26 PM
End Date: 20-May-1973 12:54 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On May 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone at Camp David from 12:26 pm to 12:54 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 167-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 167-10 Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 12:26 pm - 12:54 pm Location: Camp David Study Table The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. Haldeman’s schedule -Church Watergate -Newsmen’s questions to Haldeman -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] -President’s knowledge and activities -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper -President’s possible meeting with congressional leaders -National security -President’s role -President’s orders to Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman regarding Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters and Richard M. Helms -8- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2011) Conversation No. 167-10 (cont’d) -Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcon] -Possible implications -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper -Plumbers -Haldeman’s possible conversation with Ehrlichman -President’s call to Henry E. Petersen, April 18 -Ehrlichman -E. Howard Hunt, Jr. -John W. Dean, III’s documents -Huston plan -Haldeman’s memorandum to Tom C. Huston -Termination -Implementation -President’s approval -J. Edgar Hoover’s view -John N. Mitchell’s possible call to President -Haldeman’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s investigation -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper -Plumbers -President’s motive -Daniel Ellsberg break-in -Ehrlichman’s possible conversation with President -Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. -Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman -President’s knowledge -National security -President’s conversation with Petersen -$350,000 -President’s knowledge -Haldeman’s testimony ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Statute] [Duration: 6 s ] -9- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2011) Conversation No. 167-10 (cont’d) END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ***************************************************************** Watergate -$350,000 -Dean’s conversation with President -Clemency -President’s role -Conversations with President -Ehrlichman -Dean’s allegation regarding Ehrlichman and President -Charles W. Colson’s conversation with President -Hunt -Dorothy Hunt -John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield’s possible testimony -Dean -Dean -Ehrlichman -Mitchell -Mitchell’s conversations with President -Press report -Lie detector tests for leaks -Foreign implications -Herbert W. Kalmbach -President’s conversations with Ehrlichman and Haldeman -Possible conversation with President -Conversation with Ehrlichman -President’s knowledge of activities -Haldeman’s meeting with Ehrlichman, Helms and Walters -Reasons -Connection with Bay of Pigs -Mexican money -CIA involvement -National security -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation -Cover-up -Helms -10- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2011) Conversation No. 167-10 (cont’d) -CIA payroll -Dean’s plan -Mitchell -Ehrlichman’s possible testimony -Clemency -Kalmbach -President’s knowledge -Ellsberg break-in -President’s knowledge -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper -Wiretaps -Plumbers -Henry A. Kissinger -Morality of wiretaps -Forthcoming meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Concern with leaks -National Security Study Memorandum [NSSM] Kissinger’s Paris meeting -Cease-fire -Announcement President’s schedule -Prisoner of War [POW] dinner -President’s visit to Norfolk, Virginia, May 19 -Support for President Watergate -Effects -Politicians -Press -Confidence -Stock market -Compared with Cambodian invasion Robert H. Finch -Conversation with Haig, May 20 -Conversation with President -11- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2011) Conversation No. 167-10 (cont’d) ***************************************************************** [Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift] -Political plans -Governorship [End segment reviewed under deed of gift] ***************************************************************** President’s schedule -President’s visit to Norfolk, May 19 Watergate -President’s possible resignation -Effects -White House response -Haldeman’s lawyers -John J. Wilson -Opinion of Archibald Cox -Cox -Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman -Ehrlichman’s meeting with W. Matthew Byrne, Jr. -President’s explanation to Ronald L. Ziegler -Ehrlichman -Concern with President’s view of national security -Henry E. Petersen -President’s conversation with Petersen -National security