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Conversation 158-039

TapeTape 158StartSaturday, December 30, 1972 at 10:54 AMEndSaturday, December 30, 1972 at 10:56 AMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Bull, Stephen B.Recording deviceCamp David Study Table
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On December 30, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:54 am to 10:56 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 158-039 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 158-39

Date: December 30, 1972
Time: 10:54 am - 10:56 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 237-50]

       Harry S. Truman’s memorial service
            -Guests
                  -Rank
                       -Low level delegations
                  -Head of state
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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                                                            Conversation No. 158-39 (cont’d)

                        -Edward R. G. Heath
            -Reception
                  -Guests
                       -Attendance
            -Dwight D. Eisenhower’s funeral
                  -Comparisons
            -State Department
            -Reception
                  -Guests
                       -Heads of state, prime ministers
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't even know, even though they're a little out of line, I didn't have to see any of it, but, uh, one of them comes to my party party, uh, reception for them.
Right now, the rest of the base has been traded, but it's not going to change.
Instead of having to re-examine it, uh, we're going to be having to re-examine it on the base and then re-examine it.
In fact, it appears to me, the more I'm going to have to make a decision, the more it's going to get to me.
And, uh, it's going to be a lot of patients that are gone.
And I have no objection to doing it at all.
I just, let me put it this way, I wouldn't have been able to do as much of a treatment as we did for Eisenhower, because we would be in a situation where we would inevitably be drawn otherwise.
We have a war that we have to fight and try to make, and I know that you and I have connected this action in general to the service which I've made to you.
But you've got to be sure that the state understands it.
If they want to take that area after the gun, that's what they're going to do.
It's a hard over here to travel just to have them all be through the reception line on coffee or whatever it is.
It's a lot of that all over there.
It's a typical ride.
It's very time-consuming to travel.
You see all that stuff.
And then, um, it would be very well to, you know, stay because if they have any hits, it's not great.
Thank you.
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