Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 400 › Conversation 400-004

Nixon, Sanchez & Bull on Executive correspondence and Eisaku Sato

Monday, January 22, 1973 · 2:53 PM–2:55 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 2 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo; Bull, Stephen B.Conversation400-004 on Tape 400StartMonday, January 22, 1973 at 2:53 PMEndMonday, January 22, 1973 at 2:55 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 400-004 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon met with Manolo Sanchez and Stephen B. Bull to coordinate his immediate administrative schedule and manage pending paperwork. The discussion focused on prioritizing urgent documents requiring the President's signature and reviewing upcoming social and official invitations, including a dinner with Eisaku Sato. Nixon directed his staff to hold off on signing certain materials, specifying that he would provide further instructions when he was ready to address the remaining items.

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I'm wondering if there's other stuff you can sign.
Is there any questions before we break it down?
There's stuff you can sign.
Let's put it off, not all.
That's the only one I have to sign.
I can ask you one question short.
Are you going to keep the invitation for me to go out tomorrow?
And I see his right-handed against the white side there, a little way over the edge of the gallery.
Black testing.
Black testing.
Black testing.
Right.
And the side there, this, uh, there's...
It is not going to be this first, uh, post-mortem.
She has told everything to sign until I let you know.
I'll let you know when I'm ready to sign.
Anything that has to be signed, I'll go to.
Okay.

NARA Description

On January 22, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:53 pm to 2:55 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 400-004 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 400-4

Date: January 22, 1973
Time: 2:53 pm - 2:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez [?] and Stephen B. Bull.

       Bull’s arrival

Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 2:55 pm.

       The President’s schedule
            -Unknown women
            -Rose Mary Woods
            -Papers for the President's signature
                  -Urgency
            -Event invitation
                  -National Security Council [NSC] recommendation
            -Dinner
                  -Eisaku Sato
                  -Postponement
            -Papers for the President’s signature

Bull left at 2:55 pm.
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 400-004, January 22, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/400-004 (accessed October 11, 2026).