{"conversationCode":"452-018","tapeNumber":452,"conversationNumber":18,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-452-018","startDateTime":"1971-02-19T17:41:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-02-19T17:44:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Feb-1971","startTime":"12:41 PM","endDate":"19-Feb-1971","endTime":"12:44 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On February 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:41 pm and 12:44 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 452-018 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 452-018\n\nDate: February 19, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 12:41 pm and 12:44 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with an unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?]\n\n      The President’s schedule\n\n******************************************************************************\n\n[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and\nreleased 10/22/2019.]\n[Unintelligible]\n[452-018-w001]\n[Duration: 1m 44s]\n\n[This portion of the tape is mostly room noise with some muffled background conversation.]\n\n******************************************************************************\n\nThe unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 12:44 pm","filename":["452-018.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:30:32","tapeEnd":"02:33:52","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"452-017","nextCode":"452-019","transcript":[{"start":3.14,"end":4.56,"text":"Thank you very much."},{"start":107.81,"end":111.19,"text":"There he is."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his aide Stephen B. Bull in the Oval Office to discuss administrative logistics and the President's upcoming daily schedule. The brief interaction consisted primarily of logistical coordination, though the majority of the audio remains unintelligible due to background noise and muffled dialogue. No major policy decisions or significant political developments were recorded during this brief encounter.","topics":["Presidential schedule","White House administration","Stephen B. Bull","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T20:56:52.050Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-schedule","white-house-administration","stephen-b-bull","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":118,"audioFiles":[{"file":"452-018.mp3","bytes":4721701,"durationSec":117.9,"bitrate":320377,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:47.662Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/452-018.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/452-018","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/452/conversation-452-018","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}