{"conversationCode":"683-012","tapeNumber":683,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-683-012","startDateTime":"1972-03-13T20:02:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-13T20:05:00.000Z","startDate":"13-Mar-1972","startTime":"3:02 PM","endDate":"13-Mar-1972","endTime":"3:05 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On March 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:02 pm and 3:05 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 683-012 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 683-12\n\nDate: March 13, 1972\n\nTime: Unknown between 3:02 pm and 3:05 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Stephen B. Bull.\n\n     The President’s schedule\n          -Upcoming meeting with George H. Mahon\n          -Otto E. Passman\n                -Henry A. Kissinger\n          -John D. Ehrlichman and Edward L. Morgan\n                -Request for a meeting with the President\n                      -Busing\n\nBull left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm.","filename":["683a.mp3","683b.mp3","683c.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:51:32","tapeEnd":"04:52:18","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"683-011","nextCode":"683-013","tapeTranscriptFile":"683a.mp3,683b.mp3,683c.mp3","transcript":[{"start":17476.25,"end":17483.1,"text":"Yeah, I don't try to stop their speculation, but I'll make, but I'm sure you're right."},{"start":17483.34,"end":17485.48,"text":"I make the decision."},{"start":17491.78,"end":17499.6,"text":"I expressed my views on many occasions, but I don't agree with any of them."},{"start":17501.3,"end":17504.68,"text":"More of this slathered around the past is there's nothing to it."},{"start":17504.7,"end":17516.66,"text":"The president's confidence, the secretary's state of confidence, but I guess both are very capable matters of doing things with actual foreign policy."},{"start":17526.69,"end":17529.41,"text":"I can see where you'd be right."},{"start":17529.87,"end":17543.57,"text":"Who in the world, even Henry Kissinger's greatest admirer,"}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":17476.25,"end":17548.25,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Stephen B. Bull reviewed the President’s upcoming schedule to manage various executive and legislative priorities. They discussed arrangements for meetings with George H. Mahon, Otto E. Passman, and Henry Kissinger, alongside a request from John D. Ehrlichman and Edward L. Morgan to discuss the administration's stance on busing. The conversation focused on coordination of these engagements to ensure the President remains in control of key policy decisions.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","Henry Kissinger","Busing","Legislative relations","Executive office administration"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T02:34:11.122Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","henry-kissinger","busing","legislative-relations","executive-office-administration"],"audioDurationSec":46,"audioFiles":[{"file":"683a.mp3","bytes":175834382,"durationSec":7326.36,"bitrate":192001,"missing":false},{"file":"683b.mp3","bytes":176235623,"durationSec":7343.08,"bitrate":192001,"missing":false},{"file":"683c.mp3","bytes":172379323,"durationSec":7182.4,"bitrate":192002,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:54.978Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:44:17.676Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/683a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/683b.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/683c.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/683-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/683/conversation-683-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}