{"conversationCode":"044-051","tapeNumber":44,"conversationNumber":51,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-044-051","startDateTime":"1973-03-28T18:49:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-28T18:50:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Mar-1973","startTime":"1:49 PM","endDate":"28-Mar-1973","endTime":"1:50 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On March 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:49 pm and 1:50 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 044-051 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.4","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part IV","chronReleaseDate":"8-Dec-2010","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 044-051\n\nDate: March 28, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 1:49 pm and 1:50 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Stephen B. Bull.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 425-13]\n\n       Barber","filename":["044-051.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"044-050","nextCode":"044-052","transcript":[{"start":1.52,"end":1.98,"text":"Hello."},{"start":2.12,"end":2.68,"text":"Yes, sir, Steve."},{"start":2.7,"end":6.13,"text":"Would you move the barber back 15 minutes to 245, please?"},{"start":6.25,"end":6.67,"text":"Certainly, sir."},{"start":6.69,"end":7.54,"text":"I'll be just a little late."},{"start":7.56,"end":9.12,"text":"Tell him he can run."},{"start":9.14,"end":9.44,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":9.46,"end":10.23,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted his personal aide, Stephen B. Bull, to request a scheduling adjustment for a personal grooming appointment. Nixon directed Bull to delay his scheduled barber visit by fifteen minutes to 2:45 p.m. and explicitly instructed that the barber be told he was free to leave if the timing became inconvenient.","topics":["Scheduling","Presidential staff","White House operations","Stephen B. Bull"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:49:16.595Z"},"topicSlugs":["scheduling","presidential-staff","white-house-operations","stephen-b-bull"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"044-051.mp3","bytes":456704,"durationSec":11.32,"bitrate":322835,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.404Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:44.248Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/044-051.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/044-051","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/44/conversation-044-051","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}