Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 799 › Conversation 799-029

Nixon & Bull on W. Clement Stone and Robert W. Galvin

Monday, October 16, 1972 · 4:45 PM ET · Oval Office · 2 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.Conversation799-029 on Tape 799StartMonday, October 16, 1972 at 4:45 PMEndMonday, October 16, 1972 at 4:45 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 799-029 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417181855 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon and Stephen B. Bull discussed arrangements for upcoming telephone calls with W. Clement Stone and Robert W. Galvin, with Nixon indicating a preference for handling calls in batches to minimize waiting time.

  • telephone calls
  • scheduling
  • W. Clement Stone
  • Robert W. Galvin
  • Nixon
  • Bull

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NARA Description

On October 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at 4:45 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 799-029 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 799-29

Date: October 16, 1972
Time: 4:45 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

         List of telephone calls
              -W. Clement Stone
              -Robert W. Galvin
              -Length of calls

Bull left at 4:45 pm.

Transcript (AI-generated)

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BullAll right, the place will be announced, uh, Clements and his group on an hour later. And the other, uh, Galvin is at an hour.
Bull[unintelligible]
Bull[unintelligible]
NixonYeah. Since these are to be short calls, you can just go ahead and get most of them. Yeah, well, we'll hold.
BullRight. So they hang on for a second if you please. We'll are
NixonGet all the rest, you see, and pile them up, so I take one more and I don't have to wait for the rest of them.

Also recorded on October 16, 1972

  • 031-069 4:45 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 4:45 pm.
  • 031-070 4:45 PM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Robert A. Forst talked on the telephone from 4:45 pm to 4:46 pm.
  • 799-028 4:45 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 4:45 pm.
  • 799-030 4:45 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Robert A. Forst met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:45 pm to 4:46 pm.
  • 799-031 4:46 PM · 32 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:46 pm and 4:49 pm.
  • 031-071 4:49 PM · 39 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and William M. Fast talked on the telephone from 4:49 pm to 4:51 pm.
  • 799-032 4:49 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and William M. Fast met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:49 pm to 4:51 pm.
  • 031-072 4:52 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Joseph Townsley talked on the telephone from 4:52 pm to 4:53 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 799-029, October 16, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417181855). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/799-029 (accessed November 15, 2026).