Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 43 › Conversation 043-083

Nixon phone call with Bull on Cabinet meeting and Spiro Agnew

Wednesday, February 14, 1973 · 5:06 PM–5:07 PM ET · White House Telephone · 49 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.Conversation043-083 on Tape 43StartWednesday, February 14, 1973 at 5:06 PMEndWednesday, February 14, 1973 at 5:07 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 043-083 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417194877 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon directed Stephen B. Bull to coordinate a cabinet meeting scheduled for the following Friday. Bull was tasked with verifying the availability of Vice President Spiro Agnew and George Shultz to provide briefings at the session. Nixon emphasized his preference for both officials to attend but authorized the meeting to proceed if at least one of them was confirmed.

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NARA Description

On February 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone from 5:06 pm to 5:07 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-083 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 43-83

Date: February 14, 1973
Time: 5:06 pm - 5:07 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 412-8B]

       Cabinet meeting
            -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                  -Schedule
            -George P. Shultz

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No.
Yes, sir.
Do you check to see if Agnew is going to be back so that he could brief the cabinet on Friday?
And also check with Schultz's office to see whether he'll be there.
Sir, do you want me to get back to you?
If both Agnew and Schultz can be there at 9.30, then set up a cabinet meeting Friday at 9.30.
All right, sir.
If either or both cannot, do you want to not have the cabinet meeting?
No, you can have it.
You can have it.
If one or the other can be there, it's preferable to have two.
But either one can be.
Okay.

Also recorded on February 14, 1973

  • 412-008 4:06 PM · 1 hr 16 min — President Richard M. Nixon, George H. W. Bush, Anne L. Armstrong, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:06 pm to 5:25 pm.
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  • 856-002 5:29 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Elliot L. Richardson met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:29 pm to 5:33 pm.
  • 043-085 5:33 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:33 pm and 8:04 pm.
  • 856-003 5:34 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:34 pm and 6:06 pm.
  • 856-004 5:34 PM · 30 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:34 pm and 6:06 pm.
  • 856-005 6:06 PM · 28 sec — Unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 6:06 pm on February 14, 1973 and 8:15 am on February 15, 1973.
  • 856-006 6:06 PM · 10 sec — Unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 6:06 pm on February 14, 1973 and 8:15 am on February 15, 1973.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 043-083, February 14, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417194877). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/043-083 (accessed November 15, 2026).