{"conversationCode":"035-095","tapeNumber":35,"conversationNumber":95,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-035-095","startDateTime":"1973-01-05T17:37:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-05T17:38:00.000Z","startDate":"5-Jan-1973","startTime":"12:37 PM","endDate":"5-Jan-1973","endTime":"12:38 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On January 5, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone from 12:37 pm to 12:38 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 035-095 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.2","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part II","chronReleaseDate":"2-Dec-2008","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 35-95\n\nDate: January 5, 1973\nTime: 12:37 pm - 12:38 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Stephen B. Bull.\n\n[See Conversation No. 394-7A]\n\n       Freshmen Congressmen and bipartisan leadership reception\n            -Photographers\n                  -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins\n            -Press pools","filename":["035-095.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"035-094","nextCode":"035-096","transcript":[{"start":1.25,"end":25.75,"text":"yes sir regard to the thing tonight uh i i do not want uh photographers uh taking pictures in the line and that sort of thing all right sir uh you know what i mean uh or an ollie atkins business or anything you see all right so i didn't think we're gonna have any photographs at all up there good good i'd like to have none i think i don't think there should be a photographic pool we"},{"start":26.32,"end":31.7,"text":"It's planned on those selected members of the press, of the writing pool, to cover."},{"start":31.92,"end":32.4,"text":"That's right."},{"start":32.42,"end":33.9,"text":"This is not a photographic party."},{"start":33.94,"end":34.99,"text":"It's a social event."},{"start":35.01,"end":35.35,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":35.59,"end":38.9,"text":"And we will not have pictures and so forth and so on."},{"start":38.92,"end":39.4,"text":"Sir, fine."},{"start":39.46,"end":39.86,"text":"Fine."},{"start":40.96,"end":41.1,"text":"Fine."},{"start":41.12,"end":41.4,"text":"Okay."},{"start":41.42,"end":41.98,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed his aide, Stephen B. Bull, to strictly limit press coverage for the upcoming reception for freshman congressmen and bipartisan leadership. He explicitly prohibited photographers, including official White House photographer Ollie Atkins, from documenting the event to ensure it remained a strictly social gathering. The two agreed that coverage would be restricted to a small writing pool, excluding any photographic presence.","topics":["White House media relations","Photography policy","Press pools","Social events","Congressional relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:49:29.878Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-media-relations","photography-policy","press-pools","social-events","congressional-relations"],"audioDurationSec":50,"audioFiles":[{"file":"035-095.mp3","bytes":1209332,"durationSec":50.24,"bitrate":192568,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.542Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/035-095.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/035-095","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/35/conversation-035-095","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}