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Nixon & Bull on Presidential travel

Thursday, March 29, 1973 · 9:06 AM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 1 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.Conversation424-017 on Tape 424StartThursday, March 29, 1973 at 9:06 AMEndThursday, March 29, 1973 at 9:06 AMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 424-017 ↗

President Nixon and Stephen B. Bull discuss the logistics and scheduling of an upcoming presidential departure. Nixon instructs Bull to arrange the travel details while balancing his preference to remain in the office to attend to several pending tasks. The conversation focuses on the flexibility of the itinerary and the necessity of coordinating transportation arrangements.

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So, posting on that departure tomorrow, I would have to check to see whether I might be necessary to get out there that early.
I would like to do, I've got a few things I'd like to do here.
It takes until about 3 o'clock.
So set it up, in other words, if you can.
But the way this is possible is by allowing you to see the plane.
There's nothing else that I can do to help on this.
Okay?
Speaking of not thinking about power.
Okay.
Don't get frozen on what I'm talking about.
Well, just work it out.
It may happen either way.
If you don't even work at it, you can't do it.
I'm doing one.
Okay?
If that thing is that, what do you make of it?
Yeah.

On March 29, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 9:06 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 424-017 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 424-17

Date: March 29, 1973
Time: 9:06 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See also Conversation No. 44-65]
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                                                          Conversation No. 424-32 (cont’d)
  • 044-062 8:55 AM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:55 am and 9:00 am.
  • 044-063 9:00 AM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 9:00 am.
  • 044-064 9:00 AM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:00 am and 9:06 am.
  • 044-161 9:00 AM — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:00 am and 9:06 am.
  • 424-015 9:00 AM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 9:00 am.
  • 424-016 9:00 AM · 22 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 9:00 am.
  • 044-065 9:06 AM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:06 am and 9:08 am.
  • 424-018 9:08 AM · 15 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 9:08 am and 9:20 am.

Conversation 424-017, March 29, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/424-017 (accessed October 5, 2026).