Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 514 › Conversation 514-020

Nixon & Bull

Tuesday, June 8, 1971 · 8:03 AM ET · Oval Office · 7 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.Conversation514-020 on Tape 514 (tape position 00:09:00–00:09:07)StartTuesday, June 8, 1971 at 8:03 AMEndTuesday, June 8, 1971 at 8:03 AMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 514-020 ↗

President Nixon met with his personal aide, Stephen B. Bull, in the Oval Office to discuss administrative scheduling matters. The interaction was brief, lasting only a moment before the two exited the office together. No substantive policy decisions were recorded during this brief encounter.

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Okay, come over here.

On June 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at 8:03 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 514-020 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 514-20

Date: June 8, 1971
Time: 8:03 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

     President’s schedule

The President and Bull left the room at 8:03 am
  • 514-001 7:53 AM · 23 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 7:53 am and 8:03 am.
  • 514-002 7:53 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 7:53 am and 8:03 am.
  • 514-003 7:53 AM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 7:53 am to 7:55 am.
  • 514-004 7:55 AM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 7:55 am to 8:02 am.
  • 004-066 7:59 AM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and John D. Ehrlichman talked on the telephone from 7:59 am to 8:02 am.
  • 004-067 8:02 AM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:02 am and 9:44 am.
  • 060-001 8:03 AM · 1 hr 38 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Cabinet officers, and staffers, including John B. Connally, Melvin R. Laird, John N. Mitchell, Winton M. ("Red"), Blount, Jr., Rogers C. B. Morton, Clifford M. Hardin, Maurice H. Stans, James D. Hodgson, Elliot L. Richardson, George W. Romney, John A. Volpe, George P. Shultz, Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld, George H. W. Bush, John D. Ehrlichman, Clark MacGregor, Peter M. Flanigan, Peter G. Peterson, Herbert G. Klein, Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., Raymond K. Price, Jr., Ronald L. Ziegler, Robert J. Brown, Edward L. Morgan, Edwin L. Harper, John C. Whitaker, Neal Ball, Egil ("Bud") Krogh, Jr., Raymond J. Waldman, Leonard Garment, John F. Evans, Jr., Lewis A. Engman, Roy D. Morey, Peter Michel, Geoffrey C. Shepard, Martin C. ("Marty") Anderson, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Paul W. McCracken, Caspar W. ("Cap") Weinberger, Arnold R. Weber, and Arthur J. Sohmer, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 8:03 am and 10:31 am.
  • 514-021 8:03 AM · 18 sec — unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:03 am and 9:40 am.

Conversation 514-020, June 8, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/514-020 (accessed October 12, 2026).