{"conversationCode":"400-004","tapeNumber":400,"conversationNumber":4,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-400-004","startDateTime":"1973-01-22T19:53:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-22T19:55:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Jan-1973","startTime":"2:53 PM","endDate":"22-Jan-1973","endTime":"2:55 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo; Bull, Stephen B.;","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.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":"5.3","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part III","chronReleaseDate":"23-Jun-2009","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 400-4\n\nDate: January 22, 1973\nTime: 2:53 pm - 2:55 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with Manolo Sanchez [?] and Stephen B. Bull.\n\n       Bull’s arrival\n\nSanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 2:55 pm.\n\n       The President’s schedule\n            -Unknown women\n            -Rose Mary Woods\n            -Papers for the President's signature\n                  -Urgency\n            -Event invitation\n                  -National Security Council [NSC] recommendation\n            -Dinner\n                  -Eisaku Sato\n                  -Postponement\n            -Papers for the President’s signature\n\nBull left at 2:55 pm.\n\f                                             -3-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["400-004.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sanchez, Manolo","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"400-003","nextCode":"400-005","transcript":[{"start":29.14,"end":44.34,"text":"I'm wondering if there's other stuff you can sign."},{"start":45.66,"end":47.01,"text":"Is there any questions before we break it down?"},{"start":47.03,"end":48.25,"text":"There's stuff you can sign."},{"start":48.27,"end":48.79,"text":"Let's put it off, not all."},{"start":48.81,"end":51.15,"text":"That's the only one I have to sign."},{"start":51.17,"end":51.84,"text":"I can ask you one question short."},{"start":51.85,"end":53.48,"text":"Are you going to keep the invitation for me to go out tomorrow?"},{"start":53.64,"end":63.16,"text":"And I see his right-handed against the white side there, a little way over the edge of the gallery."},{"start":63.18,"end":63.52,"text":"Black testing."},{"start":63.54,"end":66.2,"text":"Black testing."},{"start":66.22,"end":66.5,"text":"Black testing."},{"start":66.52,"end":66.64,"text":"Right."},{"start":66.67,"end":67.63,"text":"And the side there, this, uh, there's..."},{"start":67.65,"end":68.65,"text":"It is not going to be this first, uh, post-mortem."},{"start":77.67,"end":81.93,"text":"She has told everything to sign until I let you know."},{"start":81.95,"end":83.24,"text":"I'll let you know when I'm ready to sign."},{"start":83.26,"end":84.12,"text":"Anything that has to be signed, I'll go to."},{"start":84.14,"end":84.24,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"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.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","Executive correspondence","Eisaku Sato","White House administration","Paperwork management"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:13:56.343Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","executive-correspondence","eisaku-sato","white-house-administration","paperwork-management"],"audioDurationSec":90,"audioFiles":[{"file":"400-004.mp3","bytes":2162906,"durationSec":89.99,"bitrate":192286,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:45.437Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:33.767Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/400-004.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/400-004","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/400/conversation-400-004","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}