Conversation: 045-137
Prev: 045-136 Next: 045-138Start Date: Wednesday, May 2, 1973 2:24 PM
End Date: Wednesday, May 2, 1973 2:31 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On May 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and William P. Rogers talked on the telephone from 10:24 am to 10:31 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-137 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 45-137
Date: May 2, 1973
Time: 10:24 am - 10:31 am
Location: White House Telephone
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 45-137 (cont’d)
The President talked with William P. Rogers.
[See also Conversation No. 909-17]
The Carpenters
Watergate
-Rogers’s telephone call to Charles H. Percy, Jr.
-Elliot L. Richardson
-President’s previous speech
-Percy’s previous statement
-Intentions
-Chicago Tribune
-Rogers’s telephone call to William E. Timmons
-Richardson
-Barry M. Goldwater, Percy
-Special Prosecutor
-Percy’s statement
-Rogers’s conversation with Percy
-Wording
-Richardson
-Conversation with Rogers
-Sense of the Senate resolution
-Richardson’s assignment
-White House Counsel
-Raymond R. Dickey
-Barnabas F. Sears from Chicago
-Special Prosecutor
-Qualifications
-Age
-[Horace] Chapman (“Chappie”) Rose
-Confirmation
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Possible employment
-Rogers’s conversation with John C. Stennis
-Abilities
-Congressional relations
-Work with Cabinet
-John B. Connally
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 45-137 (cont’d)
-White House Counsel
-Leonard Garment
-Qualifications
-Charles S. Rhyne