Conversation 707-008

TapeTape 707StartWednesday, April 12, 1972 at 11:22 AMEndWednesday, April 12, 1972 at 11:33 AMTape start time00:35:13Tape end time00:35:42ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Bull, Stephen B.Recording deviceOval Office

On April 12, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:22 am and 11:33 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 707-008 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 707-8

Date: April 12, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:22 am and 11:33 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:33 am.

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The Justice Department has filed a suit against the state of Texas on fishing rights to get into that tide line spot again.
We're claiming apparently that the three mile limit applies to fishing rights, even though the courts and the Congress have established that Texas has ten mile rights.
I'm not sure.
He called us a whole lot.
Price Daniels, who is now Justice of the Supreme Court in Texas, is in town, wrote to you and wanted to see you about this, and then he called the county saying, saying, so we've got to, I think, go in and try to find out where the hell it is or who brought it and what it was.
But the county's point is the suit should have never been brought.
The title, in spite of the settle long ago, it should be left that way.