Conversation 044-055

TapeTape 44StartWednesday, March 28, 1973 at 4:11 PMEndWednesday, March 28, 1973 at 4:12 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.Recording deviceWhite House Telephone

AI Summary

President Nixon directs Stephen Bull to schedule a private breakfast meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield for the morning of April 8, 1973. The President intends to brief Mansfield personally on his upcoming travel to California and his plans for future bipartisan meetings. Nixon explicitly mandates that the meeting be restricted to just the two of them, with no other staff members or aides present.

Mike MansfieldBipartisan meetingsPresidential schedulingExecutive office administrationCongressional relations

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NARA Description

On March 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:11 pm and 4:12 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 044-055 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 44-055
Date: March 28, 1973
Time: 4:11 pm-4:12 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.
[See also Conversation No. 425-22]
President's schedule
-Breakfast with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-William E. Timmons
-California
-Bipartisan meetings

Transcript (AI-Generated)

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yeah yes sir steve i want to uh set up a uh mansfield breakfast time on monday when we return before the tuesday sunday is that correct yes sir sunday the 8th fine okay make it 8 30. uh uh timon's call all right so you want to set up right away then i want him to know now that we're doing it that i'm going to california and then i'll see

All right, sir.

Do you want to give him the subject?

I just want to talk to him about the bipartisan meetings that schedule that I have planned.

All right, sir.

Do you want him to sit in?

And I don't want anybody to sit in.

No.

Just the two of us.

All right, sir.

Okay.

Thank you, sir.

830.

Yes, sir.

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