Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 579 › Conversation 579-006
Nixon & Bull on Time management and Cabinet Room protocols
Tuesday, September 28, 1971 · 3:05 PM ET · Oval Office · 47 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon met with his aide Stephen B. Bull to discuss the management of his daily schedule, specifically regarding upcoming meetings with President Moktar Ould Daddah and John D. Ehrlichman. Frustrated by the excessive time spent on photo sessions in the Cabinet Room, Nixon directed Bull to enforce a strict forty-five-second limit for these events moving forward. This change was implemented to streamline the President's itinerary and eliminate unnecessary delays in his busy calendar.
- Presidential scheduling
- Time management
- Cabinet Room protocols
- Public relations
- Stephen B. Bull
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NARA Description
On September 28, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at 3:05 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 579-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 579-6
Date: September 28, 1971
Time: 3:05 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
The President's schedule
-President Moktar Ould Daddah
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Cabinet Room
-Instructions for Ronald L. Ziegler
-Photo session
-Time duration
Bull left at 3:05 pm.Also recorded on September 28, 1971
- 579-007 3:06 PM · 8 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:06 pm to 3:15 pm.
- 077-007 3:15 PM · 38 min — President Richard M. Nixon and members of the Organization of African Unity, including Moktar Ould Daddah, Hamdi Ould Mouknass, Dr. Njoroge Mungai, Capt. Charles Sissoko, Elijah Mudenda, Jean Keutcha, Diallo Telli, Mohamed Sahnoun, William P. Rogers, Henry A. Kissinger, Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher, Jr., David D. Newsome, W. Marshall Wright, Robert Bruce, Alec G. Toumayan, and members of the press, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House from 3:15 pm to 3:52 pm.
- 579-008 3:59 PM · 13 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John C. Stennis, Gordon L. Allott, Leslie C. Arends, F. Edward Hébert, Melvin R. Laird, Clark MacGregor, William E. Timmons, Peter M. Flanigan, Ronald L. Ziegler, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:59 pm to 4:13 pm.
- 579-009 4:14 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:14 pm to 4:23 pm.
- 010-011 4:21 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone from 4:21 pm to 4:22 pm.
- 010-012 4:23 PM · 12 sec — Ronald L. Ziegler and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 4:23 pm to 4:55 pm.
- 010-013 4:23 PM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:23 pm and 4:55 pm.
- 579-010 4:23 PM · 1 hr 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, Hugh Scott, Robert P. Griffin, Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends, Clark MacGregor, Ronald L. Ziegler, George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, and Charles W. Colson met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:23 pm and 5:21 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 579-006, September 28, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/579-006 (accessed October 2, 2026).