165–15

Conversation No. 165-15

Date: May 12, 1973
Time: 12:22 pm - 12:30 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The Camp David operator talked with the President.

Telephone call from Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger talked with the President.
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Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 165-15 (cont’d)


Watergate
-Kissinger’s press briefing
-Wiretaps
-Morton H. Halperin
-Kissinger’s access to intelligence reports
-National security
-Halperin
-Departure from Kissinger’s staff
-William D. Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement

Kissinger’s press briefing
-Forthcoming Soviet summit

-President’s preparations

-Leonid I. Brezhnev


Watergate
-Wiretaps
-Compared with previous administrations

-Number

-Robert F. Kennedy

-Leaks

-Kissinger

-Mood


Kissinger’s press briefing
-Forthcoming Soviet summit
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

Watergate
-Ruckelshaus’s forthcoming statement
-Wiretaps
-William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake

-Possible list

-Release

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

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(rev. February-2012)

Conversation No. 165-15 (cont’d)

-Henry Brandon
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Reports
-Possible conversation with Kissinger

Kissinger’s schedule

Watergate

-Possible effect on administration


Foreign relations

-Kissinger’s role

-Forthcoming Soviet summit

-Defense Department and State Department

-SALT

-Kissinger’s conversations
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer and William P. Clements, Jr.
-Timing of agreement
-Le Duc Tho
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s press briefing
-Cambodian agreement

-House of Representatives

-Leverage