President Nixon met with his aide Stephen B. Bull to discuss administrative arrangements and preferences regarding potential meetings. Nixon explicitly rejected a proposed format involving sitting down for a question-and-answer session, preferring a more informal or limited interaction. The conversation reflects the President's firm refusal to engage in specific procedural requests despite Bull's attempts to discuss them.
On May 29, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:52 pm to 1:54 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 440-064 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 440-64 Date: May 29, 1973 Time: 1:52 pm -1:54 pm Location: Old Executive Office Building The President talked with Stephen B. Bull. [See Conversation No. 39-33]
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