{"conversationCode":"032-166","tapeNumber":32,"conversationNumber":166,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-032-166","startDateTime":"1972-11-03T14:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-11-03T14:45:00.000Z","startDate":"3-Nov-1972","startTime":"9:44 AM","endDate":"3-Nov-1972","endTime":"9:45 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On November 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone from 9:44 am to 9:45 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-166 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 032-166\n\nDate: November 3, 1972\nTime: 9:44 am - 9:45 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\nThe President talked with Stephen B. Bull.\n\n[See Conversation No. 391-28]\n\n        The President's schedule\n            -Meeting with [Anatoliy F. Dobrynin]\n                -Delay\n                     -Bull's call\n                -Length\n                -Time\n            -Next meeting\n                -[Beatrice (“Bettie”) Willard]","filename":["032-166.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"032-165","nextCode":"032-167","transcript":[{"start":1.2,"end":1.51,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":1.76,"end":2.5,"text":"Yes, sir, Steve Ball."},{"start":2.56,"end":9.87,"text":"Get a hold of the office over there and tell them, because of these calls, I'll be 15 minutes late for that."},{"start":11.03,"end":11.91,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":11.93,"end":18.36,"text":"Now you understand, have them call the Russian ambassador and tell him the president is tied up, will be 15 minutes late."},{"start":18.38,"end":19.08,"text":"Very good, sir."},{"start":19.1,"end":21.27,"text":"And the appointment will still be a half hour."},{"start":21.69,"end":25.15,"text":"They're only expecting 15 minutes anyway, sir."},{"start":25.17,"end":27.2,"text":"It never is 15 minutes with a translation."},{"start":27.32,"end":28,"text":"It's a half hour."},{"start":28.46,"end":29.51,"text":"See him at 1015."},{"start":29.81,"end":30.17,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":30.19,"end":30.29,"text":"Fine."},{"start":30.31,"end":30.79,"text":"And we'll finish."},{"start":30.85,"end":32.17,"text":"And then the next appointment's at 1045."},{"start":32.34,"end":33.18,"text":"Isn't that correct?"},{"start":33.2,"end":33.52,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":34.2,"end":35.84,"text":"So it's that five-minute deal with this woman."},{"start":36.2,"end":36.55,"text":"All right."},{"start":36.67,"end":37.07,"text":"Fine."},{"start":37.09,"end":37.53,"text":"Thank you, sir."},{"start":37.55,"end":37.73,"text":"1015."},{"start":37.75,"end":38.09,"text":"Fine."},{"start":38.25,"end":38.71,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed his aide, Stephen B. Bull, to delay an upcoming meeting with Soviet Ambassador Anatoliy Dobrynin by 15 minutes. Nixon emphasized that the appointment needed to be extended to a half-hour duration to account for translation time. Additionally, the President confirmed the schedule for a subsequent brief meeting with Beatrice Willard at 10:45 am.","topics":["Presidential Scheduling","Anatoliy Dobrynin","Diplomatic Protocol","Stephen B. Bull","White House Operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:15:19.212Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","anatoliy-dobrynin","diplomatic-protocol","stephen-b-bull","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":43,"audioFiles":[{"file":"032-166.mp3","bytes":1042598,"durationSec":43.37,"bitrate":192302,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:40.414Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/032-166.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-166","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/32/conversation-032-166","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}