Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 039-073
Date: Monday, June 4, 1973 at 1:49 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/039-073

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[0:01] Yes, sir.
[0:01] Steve Ball.
[0:02] Ziegler said he gave up the Hague.
[0:04] He's got the figures.
[0:05] Yes, sir.
[0:06] And I have it now, and I have April 16th.
[0:09] I'm just trying to find the meetings for you, and I'm bringing them right over.
[0:14] I have the bill for the 16th.
[0:16] All right.
[0:17] I'll bring that over.
[0:18] All right.
[0:19] Steve, I'm really more interested in the, rather than the 16th, I'm really more interested in the days before that.
[0:27] So while you're
[0:28] I'd rather not bother with that right now.
[0:30] All right, sir.
[0:31] The 16th, because my recollection on that one is good.
[0:36] So why don't you try to find, or can you do that?
[0:40] Find the guy and run over the other meetings with me, will you?
[0:46] You've got your list in front of you.
[0:47] All right, sir.
[0:47] I have an entry here starting with about March 1st.
[0:50] March 1st, we've done.
[0:52] All right.
[0:54] We've finished.
[0:55] See you there.
[0:56] I'll go through all the contacts you have.
[0:59] Not the telephone, just the others.
[1:02] March 6th.
[1:03] March 2nd there was something, wasn't there?
[1:05] They did the press conference.
[1:09] You have no record.
[1:10] Now I'm double checking with the records.
[1:12] Well, I might not have had something.
[1:13] Go ahead.
[1:15] March 2nd.
[1:16] March 6th is the next one now.
[1:17] March 6th, yes.
[1:18] Yeah.
[1:19] All right.
[1:20] Do you want that one?
[1:22] Yeah, if you could find out how long is that.
[1:23] It's about a half hour.
[1:25] Right.
[1:25] March, then what after that?
[1:27] And then March 7th for about 15 minutes.
[1:32] Right.
[1:34] March 8th for approximately five minutes.
[1:38] Right.
[1:39] March 10th, oh I'm sorry, that was telephone.
[1:45] That was an extended telephone call, however, from Camp David.
[1:49] About a 22 minute call.
[1:51] Yes, sir.
[1:53] Would you like that?
[1:55] Yeah, you can get that for me.
[1:59] Right here.
[2:00] Next one is March 13th.
[2:06] And that's a long one.
[2:08] An hour and a quarter.
[2:10] And Bob was present briefly.
[2:14] Yeah.
[2:14] Okay.
[2:16] And March 14th.
[2:21] You had, well, there was a meeting.
[2:27] It was the day of the press conference, I think.
[2:31] Oh, no, the 15th was the press conference, yeah.
[2:35] The press conference was the 15th, wasn't it, Steve?
[2:37] I'm just looking through here.
[2:41] March.
[2:45] Sir, the 15th was your press conference.
[2:48] Right, right.
[2:49] The 15th, how long was that?
[2:50] It appears to be about 40 minutes.
[2:52] Right.
[2:52] Go ahead.
[2:54] Right through the 15th, you met after the press conference.
[2:58] With him and Moore.
[3:00] And Moore.
[3:01] That's right.
[3:02] That's correct.
[3:04] Okay.
[3:05] And then we go on to the 16th again, where you had a meeting in the morning and a telephone call at night.
[3:17] And March 17th.
[3:22] You meant for about three quarters of an hour in the afternoon.
[3:26] Yeah.
[3:27] Get the March ones over.
[3:28] Hold the telephone calls till later.
[3:30] I may have them done.
[3:30] All right.
[3:31] That's another way.
[3:31] Okay.
[3:33] Can you get some March ones now?
[3:35] Yes, sir.
[3:36] Or can he dig those out?
[3:38] Yes, we can.
[3:39] Fine.
[3:40] No, I can give you.
[3:42] I don't want the April one.
[3:43] I want to do it last.
[3:44] We'll do April last.
[3:45] We'll start with March 6th then.
[3:47] Get that.
[3:49] All right.
[3:50] So anything in March.
[3:50] I don't care whether it's the 6th or whatever it is.
[3:52] Fine.
[3:53] All right.
[3:53] And then get that piled up for me because I'm going to work all afternoon on this.
[3:56] Okay.
[3:56] Very good, sir.
[3:57] Bye.
[3:58] Thank you.