Conversation 433-011

TapeTape 433StartTuesday, May 1, 1973 at 1:07 PMEndTuesday, May 1, 1973 at 1:08 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Bull, Stephen B.Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building

On May 1, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:07 pm to 1:08 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 433-011 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 433-11

Date: May 1, 1973
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Time: 1:07 pm - 1:08 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 45-79]

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The point is to be held that all files, any correspondence or anything that has to do with between me and any member of my staff, belongs to the president, not to them.
It's not their files, goddammit, they're mine.
Do you get that point?
Yep.
And tell what Dan and I are about that.
And anything in the national security area is an area that is mine.
It's not theirs.
in the national security area.
That is mine.
Not theirs.
Anything on Watergate, anything shut, they can do anything they want.
I don't give a goddamn about that.
Okay?
Time to rewrite the memorandum along those lines so that Rodney can look at it after he's captured it.