"It will be a code R per the retirement dept of Fidelity."

That is only true if you really stated this incorrectly in the description, but correctly in your title. You stated conflicting terminology:

Title = "ROTH CONTRIBUTION RECHARACTERIZED BEFORE DUE DATE OF RETURN"

Description = "so they have withdrawn it with $165 of earnings"

Did they recharacterize it from Roth to Traditional, or did they take it out?

"Use code R for a recharacterization of an IRA contribution made for [prior tax year] and recharacterized in [current tax year] to another type of IRA by a trustee-to-trustee transfer or with the same trustee."

Ask them where the money went.