Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 835 › Conversation 835-001

Nixon & Bull on John D. Ehrlichman and Staff management

Monday, January 8, 1973 · 8:28 AM–8:42 AM ET · Oval Office · 3 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.Conversation835-001 on Tape 835StartMonday, January 8, 1973 at 8:28 AMEndMonday, January 8, 1973 at 8:42 AMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 835-001 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met to review the President's upcoming schedule and coordinate administrative logistics, specifically regarding meetings with key staff members like John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, and Charles Colson. Nixon instructed Bull to proactively manage short, routine meetings and photo opportunities to prevent scheduling backlogs. Additionally, the pair discussed the status of Ehrlichman's trip to Vietnam and managed communications regarding the President's availability.

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Can I see if anything we have today?

Uh, no sir, there's no requirement, excuse me.

I'll call you over at the O.B.

today, sir.

All right, sir.

Just wondering, what do you know about what we can call you over the weekend?

I actually spoke with John Hurlman, and I spoke with him recently.

Um, if you'd like, sometimes we can use impressions of morality, and he was expecting that.

All right, I'll see you right away.

Why don't you call him?

Yes, sir.

He's coming back to the east.

He is coming back to the east.

He doesn't expect to hear from you that I spoke with him.

Yeah, you told him I was away.

Yes, sir.

If you have something that you need to.

You can put it there.

Let me around it.

Set it up around about 30 yards.

I'll come over here early.

I mean, they have

or is it the usual?

Somebody wants to get a picture taken or somebody's in town and they want to see you for five minutes.

That kind of thing works.

I mean, that's, you've got to go out there.

You don't, any day of the night here, we've got some like that by, we'll try to work out.

I don't do, I mean, I don't want to be, I don't want to be just giving you a quick check on it.

I want to see what was going on.

So that you can have, you,

You see, that's everything.

We haven't done that.

It's better to do it that way than get it piled up too much and do a whole hell of a lot of it one day.

That's all I can say for now.

It's, uh, it's, uh, sort of a secret.

It's either staff or email.

It is, sir.

Sir, I want you to hold off the meeting until he's free.

NARA Description

On January 8, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:28 am and 8:42 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 835-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 835-1

Date: January 8, 1973
Time: Unknown after 8:28 am and before 8:42 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull at an unknown time after 8:28 am.

       President's schedule
              -Executive Office Building [EOB]
              -Bob Hope's phone call
              -John D. Ehrlichman
                      -Vietnam trip
              -Schedule for next two weeks
              -Ehrlichman
              -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
              -Ehrlichman
              -Charles W. Colson
              -Ehrlichman
              -Photographs
              -Ronald L. Ziegler

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:42 am.

Also recorded on January 8, 1973

835-002 8:28 AM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:28 am and 8:42 am.
835-003 8:42 AM · 45 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:42 am to 9:33 am.
835-004 9:33 AM · 24 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:33 am and 9:35 am.
835-005 9:33 AM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:33 am and 9:35 am.
835-006 9:35 AM · 1 hr 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:35 am to 10:43 am.
835-007 10:43 AM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:43 am and 10:50 am.
835-008 10:50 AM · 2 hr 42 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), John D. Ehrlichman, Stephen B. Bull, and Col. Richard T. Kennedy met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:50 am to 1:45 pm.
035-097 1:45 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 2:56 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 835-001, January 8, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/835-001 (accessed October 12, 2026).