Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 375 › Conversation 375-001

Nixon, Haldeman & Connally on Watergate scandal and Campaign finance

Tuesday, October 24, 1972 · 6:05 PM–6:30 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 5 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Connally, John B.Conversation375-001 on Tape 375StartTuesday, October 24, 1972 at 6:05 PMEndTuesday, October 24, 1972 at 6:30 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 375-001 ↗

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President Nixon, H. R. Haldeman, and John Connally met to assess the political fallout from a forthcoming Washington Post story concerning secret campaign funds and Watergate-related disbursements. The discussion centered on allegations that Haldeman authorized payments from these funds to individuals such as G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, based on grand jury testimony from Hugh Sloan. The participants evaluated the potential impact of this press coverage and the threat posed by leaks from the grand jury and federal investigations.

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Okay, apparently now I have a story to post, it's going to carry tomorrow's name, the fourth, fifth, whatever, it's going to say named fourth, or I guess it's going to be authorized, it's
Procurement of abuse of the secret fund that went to the video company.
And they're now running a story saying that I am the death.
And that's a way to make sure it's not true.
I don't know.
Apparently, well, it may be.
I'm not quite sure what the final story is.
They say it's based on secret testimony.
And June 30 will be an interesting step up.
We may not be authorized to do that anymore.
And when we set that one up, they would probably authorize it.
They would authorize it.
They would do it.
They would pay you the money.
They would pay you the money.
They would pay you the money.
They would pay you the money.
They would pay you the money.
They would pay you the money.
They would pay you the money.
They would pay you the money.
If you go back a year,
Because, you know, an individual and I both were on anything that came along.
Sure.
We were authorized to do that.
Whatever was on the floor, we were authorized to do that.
We had to go in and spend.
I think the bottom of this book was the greatest moment.
Apparently, yes, well, apparently all of us had something to try to do.
That's what they didn't get to try to do, get there, is that it was a panic hunt.
Well, it was the same as getting into the office again, because we had a lot of panic.
Well, let's see.
Sam Mitchell.
He's from the town of Booter.
And this is the one that I'm taking.
Well, I'm going to show you the story.
I'm going to show you the story.
Well, I'm going to show you the story.
I am not worried about growth.
They get things like that.
Thank you very much.
I don't know if I can turn it on.
I don't know if I can turn it on.
I don't know if I can turn it on.
That's that.
That's the other.
That's the eye magazine.
That's the eye magazine.
That's the eye magazine.
That's the eye magazine.
That's the eye magazine.
That's the eye magazine.
That's the eye magazine.
Thank you.

NARA Description

On October 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and John B. Connally met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 6:05 pm and 6:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 375-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 373-25/375-1

Date: October 24, 1972
Time: Unknown between 6:05 pm and 6:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John B. Connally. This recording began at
an unknown time after 6:05 pm while the conversation was in progress.

[An unknown portion of this conversation was not recorded while the tape was changed]

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Connally left at 6:25 pm.

        Watergate
           -Washington Post story
                -Secret fund
                    -Disbursement
                         G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
                -Source
                    -Grand jury testimony
                         -Hugh Sloan
                -Haldeman
                -John N. Mitchell
                -Authorization to disburse money
                -E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
                -Ronald L. Ziegler
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Oct-06)

                -Mitchell, Haldeman
                -Secret fund
                -Donald H. Segretti
                -Hunt
                -Maurice Stans
                -Mitchell
                -Haldeman
                -Jeb Stuart Magruder
                -Transfer
                     -Stans
            -John D. Ehrlichman
            -Sloan’s grand jury testimony
            -Washington Post source
            -Grand jury, US Attorney
            -Time magazine
            -Grand Jury, Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

Haldeman left at 6:30 pm.

Also recorded on October 24, 1972

  • 032-025 4:04 PM · 16 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:04 pm and 4:16 pm.
  • 373-019 4:04 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:04 pm and 4:16 pm.
  • 373-020 4:04 PM · 15 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 4:04 pm and 4:16 pm.
  • 373-021 4:04 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:04 pm and 4:16 pm.
  • 373-025 4:16 PM · 1 hr 31 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John B. Connally, John N. Mitchell, Clark MacGregor, John D. Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:16 pm to 6:30 pm.
  • 375-002 6:34 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 6:34 pm and 6:40 pm.
  • 032-026 7:04 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:04 pm and 7:31 pm.
  • 032-027 7:31 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 7:31 pm to 7:33 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 375-001, October 24, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/375-001 (accessed October 9, 2026).