Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 438 › Conversation 438-024
Nixon & Bull on Republican leadership and Memorial Day events
Tuesday, May 22, 1973 · 9:34 AM–9:55 AM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 9 min
AI Summary
President Nixon met with his personal aide, Stephen B. Bull, to coordinate the logistics and scheduling of various upcoming official events and meetings. The discussion encompassed planning for a trip to California, a meeting with Republican leadership, and preparations for Memorial Day observances, including potential surrogate participation. They also addressed the scheduling of meetings with congressional leadership and the President’s anticipated travel to Iceland.
- Presidential scheduling
- Republican leadership
- Memorial Day events
- Congressional relations
- Foreign policy travel
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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 438-024 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 438-24
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.
President’s schedule
-California
-Format of forthcoming meeting
-Breakfast session
-Republican leadership
-Economic meeting
-Small Business Administration [SBA]
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Prisoners of war [POW] event
-Cabinet meeting
-National Institutes of Health [NIH]
-Trip to Florida
-Memorial Day
-Unknown soldier event
-Mount Vernon [?]
-Wreath
-Surrogate
-Bipartisan congressional leadership
-President’s forthcoming trip to Iceland
-Republican stand-in [?]
-Possible meetings of Congressmen
-Size and purpose
-Effects
-Topics
-Timing
-Haig
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 438-24 (cont’d)
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.Also recorded on May 22, 1973
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- 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.
- 438-023 9:34 AM · 4 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 438-024, 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/438-024 (accessed October 12, 2026).