Date: May 22, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:38 am and 12:27 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President talked with Marjorie Acker.
[Conversation No. 438-32A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
Dictation
-National security
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 11:58 am.
Watergate
-President’s responsibility
[End telephone conversation]
-35-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2011)
Watergate
-Forthcoming White Paper
-President’s actions
-Authorizations
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Editing
-White House strategy
-Economy
-Richard M. Helms
-Knowledge of President’s role
-Motive
-John C. Stennis and Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 11:58 am.
Copy of statement draft page
Woods left at an unknown time before 12:03 pm.
Watergate
-Forthcoming White Paper
-President’s role and knowledge
-Phraseology
-[Editing]
-Plumbers
-Instructions
-Activities
-President’s disapproval
-President’s responsibility
-President’s approval
-Woods
Woods and Acker entered at 12:03 pm.
Watergate
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Editing
-36-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2011)
-Instructions for typist
Woods and Acker left at 12:05 pm.
Watergate
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Content
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Responsibility
-Allegations of plans
-Bugging
-Kidnapping
-Armed groups
-President’s knowledge
-President’s role and knowledge
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Charles W. Colson
-Access to documents
-Colson
-David R. Young, Jr.
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Public opinion
-Helms and Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Congress
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. and Wallace F. Bennett
-Effect on presidency and Republican party
-President’s role
-World situation
Woods entered at an unknown time after 12:05 pm.
Watergate
-Forthcoming White Paper
Woods left at an unknown time before 12:25 pm.
Watergate
-37-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2011)
-Forthcoming White Paper
-Phraseology
-National security
-[Krogh’s] assignment
-President’s responsibility
-Colson
-Krogh
-Testimony regarding orders
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Young
-Possible testimony
-Krogh
-Testimony regarding orders
-Ehrlichman
-Public support for President’s national security actions
-Cover-up
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Money
-Walters
-Explanation of President’s actions
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Statement regarding President’s foreign policy
National economy
-George P. Shultz
-Need for action
-Presidential leadership
-Price freezes
-John B. Connally’s views
-Wall Street
-Public reaction
-Discussion on Sequoia
Watergate
-Howard K. Smith’s view on timing of hearings
Woods entered at an unknown time after 12:05 pm.
-38-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2011)
Forthcoming White Paper
-Phraseology
-Cover memorandum
Woods left at 12:25 pm.
Watergate
-Effect on Wall Street
-George H. W. Bush
-Statement, May 21
-Rowland Evans-Robert Novak column
Haig left at 12:27 pm.