167–10

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
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-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


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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
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-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
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-Political plans

-Governorship


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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