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-1- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2011) Conversation No. 167-1 Date: May 19, 1973 Time: Unknown between 5:30 pm and 7:08 pm Location: Camp David Study Table The President talked with the Camp David operator. Telephone call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Conversation No. 167-2 Date: May 19, 1973 Time: 7:08 pm Location: Camp David Study Table The Camp David operator talked with the President. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s location Conversation No. 167-3 Date: May 19, 1973 Time: Unknown between 7:08 pm and 7:09 pm Location: Camp David Study Table The President talked with the Camp David operator. Telephone call to Ronald L. Ziegler

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Conversation No. 167-1

Date: May 19, 1973 Time: Unknown between 5:30 pm and 7:08 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Telephone call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 167-2

Date: May 19, 1973 Time: 7:08 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The Camp David operator talked with the President.

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s location

Conversation No. 167-3

Date: May 19, 1973 Time: Unknown between 7:08 pm and 7:09 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Telephone call to Ronald L. Ziegler

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Conversation No. 167-4

Date: May 19, 1973 Time: 7:09 pm - 7:14 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Watergate -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper

President’s Norfolk speech -Press coverage

Watergate -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper -Ziegler’s meeting

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Leonard Garment, Patrick J. Buchanan, Raymond K. Price, Jr., and J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

-Preparations -John W. Dean, III

-Jeb Stuart Magruder -Subornation of perjury

-Allegations -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and President

-Conversation with Ziegler in Florida -Dean

-John N. Mitchell -Robert Vesco case -John J. (“Jack”) Calfield -Caulfield -Contacts -Ehrlichman -Dean

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Conversation No. 167-5

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 10:30 am Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Telephone call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 167-6

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 10:30 am - 10:44 am Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Ziegler’s schedule

Press coverage -Washington Star picture of President and Linwood Holton -President’s statement on North Vietnam

-National defense -Television [TV] coverage of President’s Norfolk speech, May 19

-Network news -Leonid I. Brezhnev’s meeting with Willy Brandt

-Germany -Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule

Watergate -New reports -Funds for defendants -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

-Finances -Government Accounting Office [GAO] report

Watergate

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Conversation No. 167-6 (cont’d)

-Richard M. Helms’s meeting -John W. Dean, III’s meeting with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

-White House response -Forthcoming White Paper -President’s schedule

-President’s possible meeting with congressional leaders -Attendees -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson -Timing of release -Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons]

-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s conversation with John C. Stennis -Follow-up -Herbert G. Klein -President’s schedule -Possible press conference -President’s schedule -Possible effect on press -San Clemente -Brezhnev -Kakuei Tanaka -San Clemente -Popular reaction

-Compared with other attacks on the Presidency -Target

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman -President -Presidency

Conversation No. 167-7

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 10:47 am - 10:56 am Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

President’s schedule -Ronald L. Ziegler

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Conversation No. 167-7 (cont’d)

Haig’s schedule -John B. Connally -Jamaica -Robert H. Finch

President’s trip to Norfolk, Virginia, May 19 -Television [TV] coverage

Watergate -News reports

-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s memoranda of conversation [memcons] -W[illiam] Stuart Symington -John W. Dean, III

-Apparent Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] cover-up

National economy -Connally’s possible meeting with George P. Shultz and Roy L. Ash

-Stock market -Du Pont Corportion and H. Ross Perot

-Phase III -Watergate impact -[Wage and price freeze] -”Theoretical purity’ -Connally’s view -Economists’ views -Political motives -Compared with economic interests

-President’s meeting with Shultz -Connally’s view -Wage and price freeze -Phase I move -Reassurance for country -Political motives -Compared to economic interests -Confidence problem -Wall Street -President’s view -Shultz -Ash

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Conversation No. 167-7 (cont’d)

Vietnam settlement -Henry A. Kissinger -Communiqué -Cease-fire agreement -North Vietnam -South Vietnam -Cambodia -Timing of release -Prisoners of War [POWs]

Watergate -White House response

-Connally -”Apocalyptic terms”

-Haig’s conversation with Perot -Investment in Du Pont

Watergate -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper -Raymond K. Price, Jr. -Requirements -Walters’s memcons -Possible release

-John C. Stennis’s assurances to J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. -Symington -President’s motives

Conversation No. 167-8

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: Unknown between 10:56 am and 11:00 am Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Telephone call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

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Conversation No. 167-8 (cont’d)

Haldeman’s location -Church

Conversation No. 167-9

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 11:30 am Location: Camp David Study Table

The Camp David operator talked with the President.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s location

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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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

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Conversation No. 167-10 (cont’d)

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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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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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

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Conversation No. 167-10 (cont’d)

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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

Conversation No. 167-11

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: Unknown between 12:54 pm and 2:30 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

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Conversation No. 167-11 (cont’d)

Telephone call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 167-12

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 2:30 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The Camp David operator talked with the President.

Telephone call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 167-13

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: Unknown between 2:30 pm and 2:51 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Telephone call to Tricia Nixon Cox

Conversation No. 167-14

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 2:51pm - 2:53 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

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Conversation No. 167-14 (cont’d)

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Weather -Camp David

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personable returnable] [Duration: 22 s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

President’s visit to Norfolk, Virginia, May 19 -Reception

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personable returnable] [Duration: 1 m 26 s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

Watergate -Ervin Committee hearings -Importance

-Senators

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 [Personable returnable] [Duration: 5 s ]

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Conversation No. 167-14 (cont’d)

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo -Schedule

Prisoners of War [POWs] reception -Location of First Family

-Balcony

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Conversation No. 167-15

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: Unknown between 2:53 pm and 2:55 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Telephone call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 167-16

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 2:55pm - 3:07 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

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Conversation No. 167-16 (cont’d)

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 9 s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Watergate -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper

-Preparation -Bryce N. Harlow -Forthcoming meeting with Haig -Content and wording -National security

-Lie detector tests for leaks -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper -Content and wording

-Haig’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson -Confirmation -Archibald Cox’s confirmation -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy

-Cox -Henry A. Kissinger -Morality of wiretaps -Conversations with Haig -Wiretaps -Possible press conference -Effect of leaks -Wiretaps

-Washington Post story -President’s responsibility

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Conversation No. 167-16 (cont’d)

-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy’s activity -Foreign policy -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper -President’s schedule

-Preparation -National security -National security

-President’s conversation with Henry E. Petersen

Kissinger -Report on communiqué

National economy -Haig’s meeting

-George P. Shultz, Roy L. Ash, William E. Simon, Arthur F. Burns and Herbert G. Stein

-Economics compared with politics -August 15, 1971 decision -Shultz’s views -Simon’s opinion -Simon’s views -Phase II -Wage and price freeze

-Controls -Energy

Energy -John B. Connally -Spiro T. Agnew

-Connally

Haig’s schedule

Watergate -White House response

-President’s conversation with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo -Resignation and impeachment -Effect -Soviet Union

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Conversation No. 167-16 (cont’d)

-World -US public -White House response -White House response

-Congress -John C. Stennis and Barry M. Goldwater

-Stennis -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

-White House response -Possible release of memorandum

Conversation No. 167-17

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: Unknown between 3:07 pm and 3:13 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Telephone call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 167-18

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 3:13pm -3:15 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

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Greetings

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Conversation No. 167-18 (cont’d)

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 8 s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

President’s visit to Norfolk, Virginia, May 19 -Reception -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 23 s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

Robert Abplanalp

Watergate -Martha Mitchell -Impact

President’s visit to Norfolk, Virginia, May 19 -Reception -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

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Conversation No. 167-19

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:30 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Telephone call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 167-20

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 3:30 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The Camp David operator talked with the President.

Telephone call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 167-21

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: Unknown between 3:30 pm and 3:34 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Telephone call to Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis

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Conversation No. 167-22

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 3:34 pm - 3:35 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis.

Lewis’s morale

Watergate -White House response -Television [TV] -Allegations regarding President -Clemency

-Cover-up -Lewis’s conversations with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo and Rose Mary Woods -John S. D. Eisenhower’s letter to New York Times

Public interests -Soviet summit

Conversation No. 167-23

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: Unknown between 3:35 pm and 3:36 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Telephone call to Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

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Conversation No. 167-24

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 3:36 pm -3:37 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo.

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President’s schedule

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Conversation No. 167-25

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 4:11pm - 4:21 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Watergate -Haldeman’s attempts to talk with John D. Ehrlichman

-Ehrlichman’s location -Justin W. Dart -Los Angeles Grand Jury -President’s knowledge -Daniel Ellsberg break-in -Herbert W. Kalmbach

-Telephone call from John W. Dean, III -Ehrlichman’s role -President’s knowledge -Executive privilege

-White House staff members’ notes of conversations with President

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-Haldeman’s instructions -Charles W. Colson’s notes -Location

-President’s forthcoming conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.

Haldeman’s schedule -Tennis

Weather

Watergate -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper

-Cover-up -Ervin Committee hearings -Popular opinion -Witness schedule -James W. McCord, Jr. -John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield -Bernard L. Barker -Sally Harmony

-Jeb S. Magruder’s assistant, Robert Reisner -Schedule

-Grand Jury’s schedule -Archibald Cox

-President’s conversation with Henry E. Petersen -Conflicting evidence -Ervin Committee hearings -Witness schedule

-Magruder -Dean -John N. Mitchell -Ehrlichman and Haldeman -National security -Wiretaps

-President’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. regarding Henry A. Kissinger

-Haldeman and Ehrlichman -Schedule

-McClellan Committee

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-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson -Possible testimony -Executive privilege

-Jackson -W[illiam] Stuart Symington

Ehrlichman’s schedule -California

Conversation No. 167-26

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: Unknown between 4:21 pm and 5:30 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Telephone call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 167-27

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 5:30pm - 5:41 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Watergate -Haldeman’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman

-Daniel Ellsberg break-in -President’s knowledge

-John W. Dean, III’s conversation with President -Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. -Dean’s conversation with Ehrlichman -Timing

-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman regarding David R. Young,

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Conversation No. 167-27 (cont’d)

Jr. and Krogh -National security -Plumbers -National security -Ellsberg break-in -Ehrlichman’s knowledge -Conversation with Krogh -President’s knowledge

-Response -Henry E. Petersen’s knowledge -Clemency

-Ehrlichman’s conversation with President, July 1972 -President’s response

-President’s conversation with Charles W. Colson -E. Howard Hunt, Jr.

-Dean’s allegations regarding Ehrlichman and President -Ehrlichman’s meetings with John N. Mitchell

-President’s conversations with Mitchell

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Watergate -Haldeman’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman

-Ehrlichman’s conversations with Dean -Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s meeting with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

and Richard M. Helms -Dean’s future role -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] payroll -Haldeman

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Conversation No. 167-27 (cont’d)

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Watergate -Haldeman’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman

-Ehrlichman’s conversations with Dean -Ellsberg break-in

-President’s possible obstruction of justice -President’s conversation with Petersen, April 18

-Hunt -National security -Picture -Evidence for prosecution -President’s motive

-Dean’s informing President of picture -Timing

-Grand Jury in Los Angeles -Ehrlichman and Krogh

-Compared with break-in of John L. Lungren’s office -Krogh

-Haldeman’s conversation with Ehrlichman -President’s forthcoming White Paper -National security -Plumbers -Wiretaps -National security -Ellsberg break-in

-Krogh -National security -Legal definition

-Haldeman’s conversation with Ehrlichman

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Conversation No. 167-27 (cont’d)

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Conversation No. 167-28

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: Unknown between 5:44 pm and 6:52 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Telephone call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 167-29

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 6:52 pm - 6:55 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haig’s location

Watergate -White House response -Forthcoming White Paper

-Preparation

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Conversation No. 167-29 (cont’d)

-President’s schedule -Content -National security -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] -Huston plan -Release of selected portions

-President’s possible meeting with congressional leaders -Content and wording -Patrick J. Buchanan -J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. -Context

President’s schedule

Conversation No. 167-30

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: Unknown between 6:55 pm and 7:05 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

Telephone call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 167-31

Date: May 20, 1973 Time: 7:05 pm Location: Camp David Study Table

The Camp David operator talked with the President.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s location