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Conversation 850-009

TapeTape 850StartTuesday, February 6, 1973 at 12:42 PMEndTuesday, February 6, 1973 at 12:48 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Bull, Stephen B.Recording deviceOval Office
AI Summary

President Nixon and Stephen B. Bull reviewed various administrative matters, focusing on establishing a standard practice for preparing summaries of the President's meetings with foreign dignitaries to improve efficiency. They discussed scheduling for upcoming White House events, including the swearing-in ceremony for John T. Dunlop and meetings regarding tax policy. Additionally, the President issued instructions for streamlining correspondence and handling personnel matters and nominations, including those of Jack O. Horton and John H. Kyl.

White House administrationSchedulingForeign policyPersonnel appointmentsCorrespondence
AudioNARA Description

On February 6, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:42 pm to 12:48 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 850-009 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 850-9

Date: February 6, 1973
Time: 12:42 pm - 12:48 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

       H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's location
              -Meeting with the President
                     -Barber

       Meeting summaries
             -President’s recent meeting with [Hussein, King of Jordan] Hussein ibn Talal
                     -Henry A. Kissinger
                            -Adequacy
             -Standard practice
             -President’s recent meeting with Edward R. G. Heath
             -Length
             -State Department

       Nominations [Jack O. Horton and John H. Kyl]
             -Announcement
             -[Signature]

       The President’s schedule
              -John D. Ehrlichman’s conversation with President [?]
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Sep.-09)
                                                            Conversation No. 850-9 (cont’d)



                     -Meeting with George P. Shultz
                             -Tax policy
                             -Ehrlichman’s schedule
              -John T. Dunlop
                     -Swearing-in ceremony
                             -Oval office
                             -Number of people
                             -Judge
                                    -Byron R. (“Wizzer”) White
                                    -George E. MacKinnon
              -John A. Scali
              -Donald H. Rumsfeld
                     -Departure
              -Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
                     -Confirmation
                     -William E. Timmons
              -Rose Mary Woods
              -Alice Roosevelt Longworth
                     -Location
              -Meeting with Shultz and Ehrlichman
              -White House staff
                     -Departures
                             -James Roy Goodearle
                             -Compared to previous “open door hours”
                             -Noble Mellencamp
                                    -State Department
                                    -Correspondence
       -Meeting with President
              -Haldeman

Bull left at 12:48 pm.
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Sep.-09)
Transcript (AI-Generated)

This transcript was generated automatically by AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite this transcript as authoritative. Consult the Finding Aid above for verified information.

Thank you.
Thank you.
I'd like to ask you just to make that a standard practice.
Normally, normally you can't do it, but he couldn't possibly have done it.
Well, some events like this, this kind of a visit where, frankly, it just hurts anyway.
Just a quick case, in case I have a heavy schedule, because I said I got to read all this.
One thing that he, for all events, that in any event, something should come up that he can't go through all that material, they ought to get his summary done.
Come on, tell them, tell them, in case I did.
tomorrow regarding tax policy.
Technically, pointing out swearing in Dunlop's mouth, covering his Dunlop alone in the Oval Office ceremony.
I know it's not a bad ceremony, just being fast, fast, fast, fast.
I know a lot of people that, that we should visit soon.
And we won't go to a Supreme Court justice because of this, this lower level.
You can't get a justice white that will just get one, one of your appointees.
Yeah, George McKinnon.
George McKinnon?
Yeah.
Oh, that's a lot of white.
I'll ask both of you.
We don't have it.
We don't have it either.
And that's not good.
Not good.
No, sir.
Not yet.
I'm trying to get a reading from the students.
If we might have, I will probably have a date tomorrow.
Rose will know.
We're going to have to go see this tomorrow.
Don't worry about it.
It is there, yes.
That's the problem.
So I can do it after five tomorrow.
We can schedule the rest of the day.
I don't know, 10 to 12, 10 to 12, 10 to 1, and then maybe not 3 to around 5 o'clock.
We don't want to go see her at 5 to 5.
So you can see that's what he did.
Not all things that you need to do is put him in.
He's going to be around.
Do you want to make a couple of decisions?
I heard that the shelves talk is to be.
Yeah, that's right.
There's those two at this point.
We'll put in a couple of courtesy commercials.
It's okay.
There are people like that.
You could perhaps get three or four of those around.
Just like we used to have people in New York.
I understand, for example, the title of
Chief guy in charge of every issue in the letter writing department.
The State Department usually has a correspondence.
Oh, a memo, yeah.
But people like that just admit quick, quick, quick.
They're all, you see if they have a number, then there's no problem with that.
Yes, ma'am.
In common speech, I should not agree.
You'll be jacked up, obviously.
It's really brilliant.
It's great stuff.
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