Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 44 › Conversation 044-055

Nixon phone call with Bull on Mike Mansfield and Bipartisan meetings

Wednesday, March 28, 1973 · 4:11 PM–4:12 PM ET · White House Telephone · 49 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.Conversation044-055 on Tape 44StartWednesday, March 28, 1973 at 4:11 PMEndWednesday, March 28, 1973 at 4:12 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 044-055 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon directs Stephen Bull to schedule a private breakfast meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield for the morning of April 8, 1973. The President intends to brief Mansfield personally on his upcoming travel to California and his plans for future bipartisan meetings. Nixon explicitly mandates that the meeting be restricted to just the two of them, with no other staff members or aides present.

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yeah yes sir steve i want to uh set up a uh mansfield breakfast time on monday when we return before the tuesday sunday is that correct yes sir sunday the 8th fine okay make it 8 30. uh uh timon's call all right so you want to set up right away then i want him to know now that we're doing it that i'm going to california and then i'll see
All right, sir.
Do you want to give him the subject?
I just want to talk to him about the bipartisan meetings that schedule that I have planned.
All right, sir.
Do you want him to sit in?
And I don't want anybody to sit in.
No.
Just the two of us.
All right, sir.
Okay.
Thank you, sir.
830.
Yes, sir.

NARA Description

On March 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:11 pm and 4:12 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 044-055 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 044-055

Date: March 28, 1973
Time: 4:11 pm-4:12 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See also Conversation No. 425-22]

       President's schedule
             -Breakfast with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
                    -William E. Timmons
             -California
             -Bipartisan meetings

Also recorded on March 28, 1973

  • 425-018 3:50 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:50 pm and 3:57 pm.
  • 044-053 3:57 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:57 pm and 4:00 pm.
  • 425-019 3:57 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:57 pm to 4:00 pm.
  • 044-054 4:00 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:11 pm.
  • 425-020 4:00 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:11 pm.
  • 425-021 4:00 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:11 pm.
  • 425-022 4:11 PM · 50 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:11 pm to 4:12 pm.
  • 425-023 4:20 PM · 15 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:20 pm to 4:40 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 044-055, March 28, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/044-055 (accessed October 1, 2026).