{"conversationCode":"043-079","tapeNumber":43,"conversationNumber":79,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-043-079","startDateTime":"1973-02-14T19:38:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-02-14T19:39:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Feb-1973","startTime":"2:38 PM","endDate":"14-Feb-1973","endTime":"2:39 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On February 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone from 2:38 pm to 2:39 pm. 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(President)","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"043-078","nextCode":"043-080","transcript":[{"start":2.6,"end":9.99,"text":"Would you see whether George Bush..."},{"start":10.01,"end":10.77,"text":"I spoke to Bob about it."},{"start":10.79,"end":11.57,"text":"Did he speak to you about it?"},{"start":11.89,"end":12.47,"text":"No, sir, he didn't."},{"start":13.33,"end":21.04,"text":"Bob, I mean, if George Bush is in town, I could see him around 3.30 today."},{"start":21.36,"end":21.94,"text":"All right, sir, fine."},{"start":22.22,"end":27.09,"text":"I want him and Bob and Mrs. Armstrong."},{"start":28.01,"end":28.41,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":28.49,"end":29.61,"text":"None of them will be called away."},{"start":29.67,"end":30.07,"text":"I mean..."},{"start":30.52,"end":31.93,"text":"Armstrong is gone is fine."},{"start":32.13,"end":33.93,"text":"Just George and Bob and myself."},{"start":33.95,"end":34.87,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":34.95,"end":35.49,"text":"Unannounced, sir?"},{"start":36.39,"end":37.45,"text":"No, no, it'll be announced."},{"start":37.47,"end":37.83,"text":"Announced."},{"start":38.85,"end":39.63,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":39.76,"end":43.22,"text":"We won't have a picture thing, but it can be on the schedule if he can come."},{"start":43.56,"end":43.88,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":43.9,"end":45.9,"text":"Do it in the EOB then, I presume."},{"start":45.92,"end":48.28,"text":"Yeah, I'll stay over here and I'll see Ehrlichman here."},{"start":48.69,"end":49.03,"text":"Fine, sir."},{"start":49.83,"end":52.35,"text":"I'll hold the Ehrlichman time until I see how long George takes."},{"start":52.53,"end":53.11,"text":"All right, that's fine."},{"start":53.17,"end":55.01,"text":"If he can't make 3.30, make it 4 o'clock."},{"start":55.83,"end":56.19,"text":"Very good, sir."},{"start":57.15,"end":58.34,"text":"All right, I'll set it up now."},{"start":58.36,"end":64.51,"text":"Might be better to make him at 4 o'clock in any event than make George Bush or John Ehrlichman."},{"start":64.53,"end":67.68,"text":"George Bush at 4, and then we'll call John as soon as I've finished with Bush."},{"start":68.76,"end":69.44,"text":"All right, sir, 4 o'clock."},{"start":69.46,"end":72.23,"text":"Ehrlichman can hold 4.30, but it might be 4.45, okay?"},{"start":72.39,"end":73.29,"text":"All right, thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed his aide, Stephen B. Bull, to coordinate a meeting with George H.W. Bush and H.R. Haldeman for later that afternoon. The President directed that the meeting be officially placed on his schedule, but explicitly excluded a photo opportunity. Nixon also adjusted his subsequent appointment with John Ehrlichman to accommodate the timing of the meeting with Bush.","topics":["Presidential schedule","George H.W. Bush","H.R. Haldeman","John Ehrlichman","Stephen B. 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