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Nixon & Bull on White House Administration and Document Retrieval

Tuesday, November 9, 1971 · 1:49 PM–1:50 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 17 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.Conversation300-030 on Tape 300 (tape position 01:58:03–01:58:35)StartTuesday, November 9, 1971 at 1:49 PMEndTuesday, November 9, 1971 at 1:50 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 300-030 ↗

President Nixon met with his aide Stephen B. Bull to request the delivery of materials pertaining to summer weekend schedules. The brief exchange focused on the logistics of obtaining these specific documents, which were reportedly not immediately available because they had been sent to the President's home. No further policy or administrative developments resulted from this short procedural request.

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Yeah.
Would you send over the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the weekend for the summer?
I didn't see that because I ordered it home.

On November 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:49 pm to 1:50 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 300-030 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 300-030

       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542

Date: November 9, 1971
Time: 1:49 pm - 1:50 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 14-5]
  • 014-005 1:49 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone from 1:49 pm to 1:50 pm.
  • 300-031 1:50 PM · 36 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 2:29 pm.
  • 300-032 1:50 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 2:29 pm.
  • 300-033 1:50 PM · 2 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 2:29 pm.
  • 300-034 2:29 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John A. Knebel met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:29 pm and 3:04 pm.
  • 300-035 3:04 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:04 pm to 3:06 pm.
  • 300-036 3:06 PM · 3 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:06 pm and 4:24 pm.
  • 300-037 3:06 PM · 15 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:06 pm and 4:24 pm.

Conversation 300-030, November 9, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/300-030 (accessed September 30, 2026).