Nixon White House Tapes ›Tape 473 › Conversation 473-012
Nixon & Bull on Boeing Corporation and Telecommunications
Thursday, March 25, 1971 · 4:23 PM–4:40 PM ET · Oval Office ·39 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon met with his aide Stephen B. Bull to coordinate the technical logistics for an upcoming telephone call to the Boeing Corporation. The discussion focused on establishing the necessary communication protocols and arrangements required for the President to connect with company leadership. This brief interaction served to ensure the technical readiness of the call prior to its initiation.
- Boeing Corporation
- Telecommunications
- White House logistics
- Presidential communications
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NARA Description
On March 25, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:23 pm and 4:40 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 473-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 473-12
Date: March 25, 1971
Time: Unknown between 4:23 pm and 4:40 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull
President’s telephone call to Boeing Corporation
-Technical arrangements
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:40 pmAlso recorded on March 25, 1971
- 473-010 3:55 PM · 30 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John N. Mitchell, Thomas A. Pappas, Manolo Sanchez, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:55 pm to 4:23 pm.
- 473-011 4:23 PM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:23 pm and 4:40 pm.
- 473-013 4:23 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:23 pm and 4:40 pm.
- 473-014 4:23 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:23 pm and 4:40 pm.
- 473-015 4:23 PM · 14 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, Robert H. Finch, Clark MacGregor, White House operator, Stephen B. Bull, and William M. Allen met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:23 pm and 4:56 pm.
- 473-016 4:56 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Walter E. Fauntroy, Dorothy (Simms) Fauntroy, Marvin K. Fauntroy, Clark MacGregor, and Robert J. Brown met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:56 pm and 5:00 pm.
- 051-012 5:00 PM — President Richard M. Nixon and the Congressional Black Caucus, including Charles C. Diggs, Jr., August F. Hawkins, William L. Clay, George W. Collins, John Conyers, Jr., Ronald V. Dellums, Walter E. Fauntroy, Ralph Metcalfe, Parren J. Mitchell, Robert N. C. Nix, Charles B. Rangel, Louis Stokes, and Shirley Chisholm, as well as staff members Clark MacGregor, Robert H. Finch, George P. Shultz, George W. Romney, Robert J. Brown, and Leonard Garment and press photographers, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm.
- 473-017 5:00 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 5:00 pm on March 25, 1971 and 9:40 am on March 26, 1971.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 473-012, March 25, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/473-012 (accessed September 18, 2026).