Conversation: 903-004
Prev: 903-003 Next: 903-005Start Date: 20-Apr-1973 10:35 AM
End Date: 20-Apr-1973 10:57 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Bush, George H. W.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On April 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and George H. W. Bush met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:35 am and 10:57 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 903-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 903-4
Date: April 20, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:35 am and 10:57 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
President’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
Conversation No. 903-4 (cont’d)
-Telephone call recommendations
-Delay
-Legislative bill
Bull left and George H. W. Bush entered at 10:36 am.
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Bush’s meeting with Ronald W. Reagan
-Robert H. Finch’s candidacy
-California
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s knowledge [?]
-Finch’s conversation with President
-Reagan’s schedule
-Phoenix
-Governor’s conference
Bush’s lunch with Kenneth W. Clawson and David M. Packard
-California
-Finch’s Political plans
-Senate
-Governor
Bush’s meeting with Reagan
-Finch
-Retirement
-Constitutional Amendment
-Patronage
-Reagan’s position
-Toughness of Reagan
-Candidacy for Governor
President’s conversation with Finch
President’s forthcoming meeting with Reagan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
Conversation No. 903-4 (cont’d)
-Finch
-President’s support
-Senate
-California Governor’s race
-Edwin Reinecke
-Reagan’s choice
-President’s conversation with Reagan
San Clemente, California
-New York
-Reagan’s schedule
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Watergate
-Grand Jury
-Ervin Committee
-John N. Mitchell
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Henry E. Petersen
-Kenneth S. Rietz’s involvement
-Grand Jury’s purview
-Dirty tricks
-Edmund S. Muskie
-President’s conversation with Petersen
-Dirty tricks
-Rietz
-Involvement
-Jerris Leonard
-Conversations with Bush
-Dirty tricks
-Prevalence
-Rietz
-Departure
-Conversation with Bush, April 18, 1973
-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s forthcoming testimony
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
Conversation No. 903-4 (cont’d)
-Involvement
-Effects
-President
-Republicans
-Capitol Hill reactions
-President’s actions
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s statement
-Investigation
-Comparison with Sherman Adams and Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Future of those involved
-Possible statement by Bush
-President’s investigation
-Press
-Haldeman
-John W. Dean, III
-Bush’s conversation with John Linton of Newsweek
-Disclosures
-Grand Jury
-Ervin Committee
-Departures from White House staff
-Effect
-Indictments
-Lack of corroborating evidence
-Mitchell
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Magruder
-Telephone call from Executive Office Building [EOB] to Republican National
Committee [RNC]
-Tom Allias [?]
-Jack N. Anderson
-Payment for mailing
-Bush’s call to W. Richard Howard
-White House staff
-Dean
-Conversations with President
-Magruder
-Mitchell
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
Conversation No. 903-4 (cont’d)
-Rietz
-Departure from RNC staff
-William E. Brock, III
-Tom Lyons
-Pat Wilson
-Conversations with Bush
-Bush’s conversation with Petersen
-Magruder testimony
-Meeting with Bush and President
-Bush’s morale
-William P. Rogers
-Conversations with Bush and President
-Possible statement by Bush
Bush left at 10:57 am.