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Conversation 658-019

TapeTape 658StartThursday, January 27, 1972 at 2:20 PMEndThursday, January 27, 1972 at 2:23 PMTape start time04:17:43Tape end time04:19:20ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Bull, Stephen B.Recording deviceOval Office
AI Summary

President Nixon met with his aide, Stephen B. Bull, to coordinate logistics for upcoming presidential activities, including the scheduling of photography sessions. They discussed the necessity of managing the President's itinerary to prevent exhaustion, referencing past experiences where fatigue impacted staff performance. This discussion served to refine the planning for upcoming travel and high-profile public appearances.

Presidential schedulingLogisticsPhotographyTravel planningStaff management
AudioNARA Description

On January 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:20 pm and 2:23 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 658-019 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 658-19

Date: January 27, 1972
Time: Unknown between 2:20 pm and 2:23 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

     The President’s schedule
          -Photograph opportunities
               -Rate
               -Previous Quadriad photograph
                      -Herbert Stein
                      -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
               -Bull’s responsibility

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:23 pm.
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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leaders, practice, theater, have a sense of which to be the center of the team.
And then, just to sit down and go over everything that we plan to talk about.
We don't mean as truly as we can.
And then, of course, when we come back, we'll repeat.
So, is that something that I'd like to do in the competition?
Yeah.
Well, the reason I advance, we tend to advance parties over very interesting things.
And 24 people would win.
It would have been awful.
18 got sick.
Now they were sick from fatigue and hours and so forth, but they all recommended to be sure it was better.
In other words, not just go all out.
They said you've got to be there to change the restrictions and talk to your terminal owner.
That made it big.
They go on and rush kind of that way.
So they thought, I better go to Hawaii first.
I'm going to go there.
So I'm on a whole day and a night.
Then I go on a whole day and a night.
And then fly over to Beijing the next day.
Hopefully in Greece.
Because I, well, the talks go on for four days.
So that's the real thing.
Now the other thing I want you to know, too, is that
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