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.
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 AidConversation 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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