On September 24, 1971, Stephen B. Bull and unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 11:03 am and 9:29 pm. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 077-005 of the White House Tapes.
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I want to say that it's a beautiful day for some of the nice things.
But there's a lot of work to be done.
And we've got to tell you to be in time.
We've got to tell you.
We've got to tell you.
We've got to tell you.
We've got to tell you.
We've got to tell you.
in special relations with .
This is America, where we .
We've been talking about .
So I should do that .
And they built their base .
And so I said, I should build .
So you protect your base .
But I just wanted to have this back-up, because the key to that is that, for sure, you know, uh, it's an honor to have the, uh, this is the first time this has happened.
I'll be talking about it in a few hours.
I'm actually going to have to do that in a few weeks.
I'm going to have to do that in a few weeks.
I'll be talking about it in a few weeks.
Yeah, later that, it's spooky.
Then it's, yeah, and it's a big, big, big, big, big, big, big,
A very plain story.
It was an unsolved problem that had to be straightened out.
His answer was, politically, the government could not do anything.
And I said to him, Mr. Minister, you are saying to us that the only course the United States can take is the unilateral one.
And he began to crawl back on that, and he said he thought it was a horrible thing for us to do.
That's where the conversation went.
And it was a questioner.
And it was a questioner.
And it was a questioner.
Well, no, I live with this too long, Dave, to get soft on it at this point.
I know you, I want to be sure you have, as I asked the direct speech you sent me, to give a little number on the points that you've given over to you before the meeting, so you just have it back.
Oh, good.
Now, on the, on the October 15th action, I hope the President does it on October 15th, and I hope he doesn't give me the time to do it.
I'd like to see him do it as part of his own authorship.
Well, if he doesn't, then it is.
I mentioned Bill, I mentioned the L.A. community group, and he didn't take the bill, he didn't take the list there.
But the thing of it is, we have the President's direction.
This is it now.
I think we're done.
I will have you in the service.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There ain't no other floor over there with bare wood.
Here.
Like this.
See this?
You can see it off to here.
Something like that.
It's going to take a long day.
We'll say this is what we were checking on.
We know there isn't any security problem.
We're going to find out if the president has scheduled.
What kind of odor will there be?
A lot of odor.
Okay, just hold up a second.
A lot of odor.
Maybe I'll wait until the weekend.
Yeah, maybe so.
We better find out.
There's got to be a lot of odor.
A lot of noxious odor, too.
Okay.
Because they won't be able to sit in there with that order and they won't be able to eat.
They're coming back in two hours.
You know they're going to take all I get.
We should have done it.
I've told you before we should have done that one over there.
Yeah.
Back over there.
Yeah.
When we was doing these two.
Oh, these.
Oh, they're all good, man.
Oh, that needs to work.
Yeah, they know.
They're seeing the mark.
I know.
I'll tell you.
We got a little bit down there, too, at the fireplace, I don't know.
I suppose there's some scratches down here.
There's scratches here in front of those doors.
Yeah, I'm doing it.
And it's all waxed up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's stained, isn't it?
It's shiny.
Well, if you didn't stain it, it wouldn't get all the wax.
Yeah, that might do it.
Yeah.
There's nothing over on that side of it.
It makes scratches.
Yeah.
That's what I said before.
I don't know why they passed it down.
Because, oh, we was at it.
We should have gone along with it.
It was great at that.
It was good.
It was good.
It was good.
It was good.
It was good.
It was good.
It was good.
Yeah, it's all right.
Yeah, it looks good.
It makes you stand out.
Yeah, it makes you stand out and still not enough.
It makes it look like it's actually laid on there.
Yeah, like it's supposed to.
Yeah.
Can it be done?
Can we sleep?
Tomorrow?
We've got a long weekend.
He's here today.
The President's here today.
Right.
I think that's long.
No, we've got to put it off until Monday.
It has to be done today.
Well, it doesn't have to be.
You know, the president comes first.
Right.
We prefer to do this on Monday.
At least he will not be here on Monday.
We can't.
We won't be here on Monday.
He's going to be here on Monday.
We can't do it tomorrow.
I'd rather not do it today.
It's going to be obnoxious.
Let's put it off.
It's because other people don't like it.
I know they won't like it.
Okay.
Okay, sir.
Take care of that.
Yeah, tomorrow or Monday, huh?
Okay, sir.
We thought he had left last night.
So we got the wrong...
I know we started it with that stinking stuff and it ain't like...
We don't know.
We don't know.
We don't know.
Okay, we'll come back.
We'll come back tomorrow night.
Sometimes he's going to be here tomorrow night.
Okay, so okay then.
I wish we could do that before you guys started talking over there.
Yeah.