{"conversationCode":"009-034","tapeNumber":9,"conversationNumber":34,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-009-034","startDateTime":"1971-09-16T13:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-16T14:33:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Sep-1971","startTime":"9:20 AM","endDate":"16-Sep-1971","endTime":"10:33 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Bull, Stephen B.; White House operator; [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On September 16, 1971, Stephen B. Bull, the White House operator, and unknown person(s) [George P. Shultz's secretary] talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:20 am and 10:33 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 009-034 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 9-34\n\nDate: September 16, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nStephen B. Bull talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for call to George P. Shultz’s office\n\nBull talked with Shultz's secretary [?]\n\n     Shultz's location\n          -En route to Executive Office Building [EOB]\n          -Time of departure","filename":["009-034.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:12:44","tapeEnd":"01:13:39","participantsList":["Bull, Stephen B.","White House operator","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"009-033","nextCode":"009-035","transcript":[{"start":2.09,"end":3.81,"text":"Would you ring Mr. Schultz's office, please?"},{"start":3.91,"end":4.25,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":10.88,"end":12.06,"text":"Mr. Schultz's office."},{"start":12.08,"end":12.88,"text":"Hi, this is Steve Bull."},{"start":12.9,"end":13.22,"text":"Is he there?"},{"start":14.32,"end":17.5,"text":"Mr. Schultz just left to go to the EOB office to meet with the president."},{"start":17.59,"end":18.49,"text":"I understood him to say."},{"start":18.53,"end":19.97,"text":"Okay."},{"start":20.89,"end":22.59,"text":"Let me double check with Barbara."},{"start":22.61,"end":23.49,"text":"Okay, hold him there."},{"start":23.51,"end":25.57,"text":"The president wants to talk to him on the telephone."},{"start":25.79,"end":26.35,"text":"Oh, I see."},{"start":27.54,"end":29.84,"text":"He just went out of the office, so he's not here."},{"start":29.92,"end":30.28,"text":"Just a minute."},{"start":30.3,"end":31.22,"text":"Let me check with Barbara."},{"start":46.22,"end":46.76,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":46.78,"end":46.92,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":47.14,"end":48.51,"text":"Yeah, he's on route over to the..."},{"start":48.57,"end":49.05,"text":"He's on the route."},{"start":49.07,"end":50.81,"text":"Can you intercept him?"},{"start":50.84,"end":51.88,"text":"I don't have... As he left."},{"start":51.9,"end":53.55,"text":"He's left a good two minutes ago."},{"start":53.63,"end":54.23,"text":"Okay, thank you."},{"start":54.71,"end":54.81,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Stephen B. Bull attempted to facilitate a direct telephone call between President Nixon and George P. Shultz. After contacting Shultz’s office, Bull learned that Shultz had recently departed for the Executive Office Building to meet with the President in person. The attempt to intercept Shultz was unsuccessful as he was already en route.","topics":["George P. Shultz","Scheduling","White House communications","Executive Office Building","Stephen B. Bull"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:52:45.604Z"},"topicSlugs":["george-p-shultz","scheduling","white-house-communications","executive-office-building","stephen-b-bull"],"audioDurationSec":56,"audioFiles":[{"file":"009-034.mp3","bytes":1341021,"durationSec":55.8,"bitrate":192247,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/009-034.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-034","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/9/conversation-009-034","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}