April 17, 1973 White House Telephone Part of a conversation with President Richard Nixon and his then-National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. This conversation took place around midnight. In it, Nixon emotionally discusses the growing Watergate scandal and the possibility of having to fire his Chief of Staff HR (Bob) Haldeman. He also says that he has already contemplated resigning himself in favor of his Vice President Spiro Agnew (this was more than a year and three months before he ...