Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 670 › Conversation 670-022
Nixon & Bull
Monday, February 14, 1972 · 4:08 PM ET · Oval Office · 11 sec
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On February 14, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at 4:08 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 670-022 of the White House Tapes.
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Conversation No. 670-22
Date: February 14, 1972
Time: 4:08 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
Meeting
-Timing
-Duration
-Interruption
The unknown man left at 4:08 pm.
Conversation No. 670-23/671-1
Date: February 14, 1972
Time: Unknown between 4:09 pm and 5:28 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Andre Malraux, Sophia K. Porson and Henry A. Kissinger.
Greetings
Kissinger
-Introduction
Malraux’s visit Conv. No. 670-23/671-1 (cont.)
-The President’s trip to Paris in 1969
-Writings
-Anti-Memoirs
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Chinese
-Mao Tse-tung
-Relationship with Malraux
-Malraux’s analysis
-Mao Tse-tung’s view
-Youth and intellectuals
-Possible reason
-Young people
-Concern
-Mask for army’s action
-Cultural revolution
-Compared to events in France in 1968
-IntellectualsShow the rest of the log (124 more lines)
-Role according to Mao Tse-tung
-Communist Party
-Chinese revolution
-Russian Revolution
-Mao Tse-tung
-Proletariat
-Chinese
-Relationship with Russians
-Consumer goods
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:09 pm
Refreshments
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:28 pm.
-Malraux’s book in 1965 [?]
-1971
-Chinese
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-A Presidential visit
-Vietnam War
-Chinese helpfulness
-North Vietnam
-Passage of arms
-Possible conflict between the Chinese and Soviets
-Chinese
-Foreign policy
-Assistance to Pakistan or Vietnam
-Chinese tanks in Pakistan
-Expansionism
-Mao Tse-tung’s view
-Continent Conv. No. 670-23/671-1 (cont.)
-Australia
-Chinese perspective of the world
-Sultan of Zanzibar
-Domestic policy
-Mao Tse-tung
-Fear of Soviet or US attack
-Industrial centers
-Bomb cities
-Malraux’s questions to Mao Tse-tung
-Reasons for meeting with US representatives
-Mao Tse-tung
-Policies
-Standard of living
-Agriculture standard of living
-Machines
-Incapability of creating large machinery
-US procurement
-Credits
-Chou En-lai
-Negotiations with US
-Chinese self-reliance
-Soviets
-Aid
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-US trades and credits
-Soviets
-Standard of living compared to the cultural revolution
-Economic questions
-Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-tung’s anticipation
-The President of US
-A world plan
-Compared to the Marshall Plan
-Questions for the President from Mao Tse-tung
-Vietnam
-Chou En-lai
-John Foster Dulles policy
-Mao Tse-tung
-Effect of policy on the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-World policy
-Prime Minister of Somalia
-Visit
-Malraux’s view
-Pakistan
-Africa
-Mao Tse-tung
-Possible successor
-Chou En-lai
-Chou En-lai
-Foreign policy Conv. No. 670-23/671-1 (cont.)
-Prime Minister
-US relations with Japan and PRC
-US relations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-USSR relations with PRC
-Breach
-Leadership
-Powers of Pacific countries
-Possible future
-US economic agreement with PRC
-Impact on USSR and Japan
-The President
-Destiny
-Policy
-Impact on revolution in PRC and USSR
-Standard of living concerns
-Mao Tse-tung
-Need for a policy
-Importance
-Josef V. Stalin
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Successor
-Revolutionary
-Mao Tse-tung’s view of the President
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Vietnam
-Withdrawal
-Japan
-US foreign policy
-Pacific
-Withdrawal from Indonesia
-Withdrawal from Japan
-Withdrawal from South Korea
-Possible Malraux opinion
-Chinese
-Soviets
-Peace
Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 5:28 pm while the tape was changed; it
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 670-022, February 14, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417180813). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/670-022 (accessed November 1, 2026).