President Richard Nixon and H. R. Haldeman met at the Aspen Lodge in Camp David to discuss matters of state, though the specific details of their dialogue remain classified or excised from the record. Due to significant discontinuities and the withdrawal of materials from the official archival transcript, the precise nature of the decisions reached during this brief morning session is not publicly available. The exchange serves as a record of high-level deliberation between the President and his Chief of Staff during a period of intense administration activity.
On May 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 7:59 am and 8:05 am. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 190-017 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 190-17 Date: May 18, 1972 Time: Between 7:59 and 8:05 am Location: Camp David Hard Wire The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. [Discontinuities appear in the original recording] [See Conversation No. 131-23; two items have been withdrawn from this conversation]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.