Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 850 › Conversation 850-002

Nixon & Bull on Fate Suber and Camp David

Tuesday, February 6, 1973 · 8:32 AM–9:08 AM ET · Oval Office · 1 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]; Bull, Stephen B.Conversation850-002 on Tape 850StartTuesday, February 6, 1973 at 8:32 AMEndTuesday, February 6, 1973 at 9:08 AMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 850-002 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon met with an unknown individual and Stephen B. Bull to coordinate compassionate assistance for a White House staffer named Fate Suber. Nixon expressed concern over Suber’s ongoing health struggles and mental state following a heart attack. The President directed Bull to finalize arrangements for Suber and his wife to spend time at Camp David, specifically tasking him with coordinating military support and lodge accommodations.

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What other thing I want you to take care of for me?
There's a fellow named Suter or something like that over there, one of the mothers who's had a heart attack and been sick for about a year.
He came back in and he had to send him back to the office job.
And I think he's perhaps a little bit, he's very mentally depressed and so forth.
But I want you to make arrangements with the military that on Friday, he and his wife,
I know he's very sick.

NARA Description

On February 6, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, unknown person(s), and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:32 am and 9:08 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 850-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 850-002

Date: February 6, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:32 am and 9:08 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

       Item from Rose Mary Woods [?]

The unknown person left and Stephen B. Bill entered at an unknown time after 8:32 am.

       The President’s schedule

       Fate Suber
              -Health
              -Visit to Camp David
                      -Family
                      -Arrangements
                             -Military Aide
                             -Dogwood or Birch Lodge
              -Health

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:08 am.

Also recorded on February 6, 1973

  • 850-001 8:32 AM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:32 am and 9:08 am.
  • 850-003 8:32 AM · 42 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:32 am and 9:08 am.
  • 850-004 9:08 AM · 12 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:08 am to 9:16 am.
  • 850-005 9:19 AM · 15 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:19 am to 9:35 am.
  • 112-003 9:35 AM · 1 hr 44 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Republican Congressional leaders, including Hugh Scott, Robert P. Griffin, Wallace F. Bennett, William E. Brock, III, John G. Tower, Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends, John B. Anderson, Samuel L. Devine, Barber B. Conable, Jr., Robert C. ("Bob") Wilson, George H. W. Bush, Roy L. Ash, John D. Ehrlichman, William E. Timmons, Richard K. Cook, Thomas C. Korologos, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 9:35 am and 11:16 am.
  • 850-012 9:35 AM · 29 sec — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:35 am and 11:16 am.
  • 112-005 11:16 AM · 1 hr 5 min — L. Dean Brown, Henry A. Kissinger, and unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 11:16 am on February 6, 1973 and 7:57 am on February 8, 1973.
  • 850-006 11:16 AM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:16 am to 11:17 am.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 850-002, February 6, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/850-002 (accessed October 12, 2026).