{"conversationCode":"540-008","tapeNumber":540,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-540-008","startDateTime":"1971-07-20T15:07:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-20T15:09:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Jul-1971","startTime":"11:07 AM","endDate":"20-Jul-1971","endTime":"11:09 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On July 20, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:07 am and 11:09 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 540-008 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. 540-8\n\nDate: July 20, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:07 am and 11:09 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Stephen B. Bull.\n\n     Schedule\n          -John D. Ehrlichman\n          -George P. Shultz\n\nBull left at an unknown time before 11:09 am.","filename":["540-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:10:25","tapeEnd":"01:10:54","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"540-007","nextCode":"540-009","transcript":[{"start":0.25,"end":11.21,"text":"I'll start over this ear."},{"start":11.23,"end":11.33,"text":"Okay."},{"start":11.35,"end":12.36,"text":"Just a little bit worried if this ends up missing."},{"start":12.38,"end":13.42,"text":"But you have Mr. Schultz standing to the left there."},{"start":13.44,"end":14.66,"text":"He's one of that, so I'm gonna see if he will bring you down."},{"start":14.68,"end":14.78,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":14.8,"end":15,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Stephen B. Bull briefly met to coordinate the President's upcoming schedule. The primary focus of the discussion was arranging meetings with John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz. Bull facilitated the planning to ensure these key advisors would be brought to the Oval Office to meet with the President.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","John D. Ehrlichman","George P. Shultz","White House administration","Staff coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T23:22:56.699Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","john-d-ehrlichman","george-p-shultz","white-house-administration","staff-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":18,"audioFiles":[{"file":"540-008.mp3","bytes":719726,"durationSec":17.84,"bitrate":322714,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:51.011Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/540-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/540-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/540/conversation-540-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}