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Conversation 659-007

TapeTape 659StartFriday, January 28, 1972 at 1:21 PMEndFriday, January 28, 1972 at 1:35 PMTape start time02:49:58Tape end time02:53:48ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Bull, Stephen B.Recording deviceOval Office
AI Summary

President Nixon met with Stephen B. Bull to coordinate logistics for a White House dinner honoring DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace, focusing on protocol, lighting, and the President's toast. The discussion also addressed the administration's stance on magazine postal subsidies, specifically ensuring industry support for the legislative package. Furthermore, Nixon and his staff decided to postpone efforts to revive the Supersonic Transport (SST) project until after the upcoming election, prioritizing it instead as a key initiative for his potential second term.

White House ProtocolPostal Subsidy LegislationSupersonic Transport (SST)Political StrategyWhite House Entertainment
AudioNARA Description

On January 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:21 pm and 1:35 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 659-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 659-7

Date: January 28, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:21 pm and 1:35 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

     The President’s schedule
          -White House dinner [for DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace], January 28, 1972
               -Protocol
                      -The President’s toast
                           -Protocol
                           -Readability
                                 -Lighting
                           -East Room
                      -Medal of Freedom
                      -Press coverage
                      -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                      -Entertainment
                           -Introduction
               -Typing of remarks
                      -Readability
                           -Lighting

                -Entertainment
                     -Ray Coniff Singers
                           -Program
                                -God Bless America

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:35 pm.
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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They're going to do a lot of that.
Thanks.
You're going to be seeing a lot of magazine people tonight.
We have Ted Klassen and the Post Office aboard on the postal subsidy for magazine postage.
And that was going to be the hard place.
So if Hope or
or some of them raise the question with you.
We think we've cleaned out the underbrush now.
They will not oppose it.
Hope and the magazine people should get their bill in, and we'll support it.
And the post office is wheeled, and so it's... About the only people that I really want to pull back to the board is for Hope.
Yeah, well, he's got a lot of company in this one.
Then one small weekend was SST.
You asked us to look into the possibility of getting some enthusiasm for SST on the Hill.
And so I've had Magruder and some other people looking into it.
Their advice is we not touch it until after the election.
There's too many negatives in it right now, and probably not enough Congressmen to be willing to get behind it at this point, because they're all up this time.
We're going to put Magruder to work selling their airplanes abroad.
I remember Foy coming in and talking about how the State Department could block your stuff.
The trick here is to crack the State Department.
is pretty resourceful, and he's got a PR sense, and he'll surround them with league stories and all that kind of stuff.
They don't think they should do it, but I agree.
SSC has been a political issue.
And I'll tell you one thing, it's got to be included the next time around.
That's a prime second-term project.
We've got to build it.
We'll do it just like you wanted to move.
Build the SSC.
But...
can still be done.
I think so, because all the tools are there, the know-how is still there, and we own it, you know, so it can be done.
Well, I have a good memory of my speech in St. Joe.
You know, I'm out of Denver.
I'm on the board of a charity that I've stayed on.
It runs kids' camps.
And once a year, I have to go there for a meeting in Rio.
It was an awesome private errand.
Denver's a nice place.
It's snowing as the devil right now, I'm afraid.
It really had a lot of snow on the West Coast.
And Seattle had six-foot grits in their downtown area.
This is all our other problems.
It's horrifically unusual.
Yeah, there's no place for the red lines.
Well, good.
I'll see you later, Ron.
Ron, if you want to go to the canteen, we'll just go.
Okay.
Thank you.
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