{"conversationCode":"044-055","tapeNumber":44,"conversationNumber":55,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-044-055","startDateTime":"1973-03-28T21:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-28T21:12:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Mar-1973","startTime":"4:11 PM","endDate":"28-Mar-1973","endTime":"4:12 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 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.","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. 044-055\n\nDate: March 28, 1973\nTime: 4:11 pm-4:12 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Stephen B. Bull.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 425-22]\n\n       President's schedule\n             -Breakfast with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield\n                    -William E. Timmons\n             -California\n             -Bipartisan meetings","filename":["044-055.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"044-054","nextCode":"044-056","transcript":[{"start":0.39,"end":29.04,"text":"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"},{"start":29.85,"end":30.73,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":30.77,"end":31.87,"text":"Do you want to give him the subject?"},{"start":33.88,"end":39.07,"text":"I just want to talk to him about the bipartisan meetings that schedule that I have planned."},{"start":39.33,"end":39.65,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":39.67,"end":40.51,"text":"Do you want him to sit in?"},{"start":40.55,"end":42.04,"text":"And I don't want anybody to sit in."},{"start":42.36,"end":42.48,"text":"No."},{"start":42.5,"end":43.06,"text":"Just the two of us."},{"start":43.34,"end":44.62,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":44.64,"end":45.06,"text":"Okay."},{"start":46.61,"end":47.01,"text":"Thank you, sir."},{"start":47.03,"end":47.23,"text":"830."},{"start":47.25,"end":48.01,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"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.","topics":["Mike Mansfield","Bipartisan meetings","Presidential scheduling","Executive office administration","Congressional relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:49:53.518Z"},"topicSlugs":["mike-mansfield","bipartisan-meetings","presidential-scheduling","executive-office-administration","congressional-relations"],"audioDurationSec":49,"audioFiles":[{"file":"044-055.mp3","bytes":1955840,"durationSec":48.78,"bitrate":320764,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.404Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:44.249Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/044-055.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/044-055","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/44/conversation-044-055","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}