Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 438 › Conversation 438-023
Nixon & Bull on Alaska pipeline and Republican leadership
Tuesday, May 22, 1973 · 9:34 AM–9:55 AM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 4 min
AI Summary
President Nixon and aide Stephen B. Bull reviewed the President's upcoming schedule, focusing on key legislative and political engagements including meetings with Republican leadership and discussions regarding the Alaska pipeline and agricultural legislation. The conversation addressed the coordination of appointments involving figures such as Alexander Haig, Elliot Richardson, and various congressional members. Nixon provided specific directives regarding his preferences for these meetings, emphasizing the management of his time and personnel interactions.
- Presidential scheduling
- Alaska pipeline
- Republican leadership
- Legislative agenda
- Alexander Haig
- White House operations
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NARA Description
On May 22, 1973, 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 9:34 am and 9:55 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 438-023 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 438-23
Date: May 22, 1973
Time: Unknown between 9:34 am and 9:55 am
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s schedule
President’s schedule
-Republican leadership meeting
-William E. Timmons
-Agricultural bill
-Housing bill
-Alaska pipeline
-Wildcard
-Rogers C. B. Morton, Claude S. Brinegar [?]
-Energy conservation
-Charles J. DiBona
-Inter-American Defense Forum
-Military
-Merchant Marine achievement award
-James L. Buckley and Jacob K. Javits
-New York
-Robert J. Dole
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Elliot L. Richardson
-George P. Schultz, Herbert Stein, Roy L. Ash
-Haig
-President’s telephone call
-Timmons’s suggestions
-Case file
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 438-24 (cont’d)Also recorded on May 22, 1973
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- 925-005 9:27 AM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Warren E. Burger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:27 am to 9:30 am.
- 925-006 9:30 AM · 3 min — United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:30 am and 9:34 am.
- 438-024 9:34 AM · 9 min — 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 9:34 am and 9:55 am.
- 438-025 9:34 AM · 25 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:34 am and 9:55 am.
- 438-026 9:34 AM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:34 am and 9:55 am.
- 438-038 9:34 AM · 20 sec — unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:34 am and 9:55 am.
- 438-027 9:55 AM · 1 hr 24 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:55 am to 11:28 am.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 438-023, May 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/438-023 (accessed October 12, 2026).