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Start Date: 15-Feb-1973 9:02 AM

End Date: 15-Feb-1973 9:12 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; 

Recording Device: Oval Office

857-001.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 15, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:02 am to 9:12 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 857-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 857-1

Date: February 15, 1973
Time: 9:02 am - 9:12 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

       Pentagon visit
              -Service secretaries
                      -Press representative
                      -Elliot L. Richardson
                      -Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft

       Operation Homecoming
              -Command center
              -Coincidence with Pentagon visit
              -Public relations [PR]

       Cabinet meeting
              -Deputy Secretaries
              -Earl L. Butz
                      -Absence
              -Staff attendance
                      -John D. Ehrlichman
                      -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                      -Peter M. Flanigan
                      -William E. Timmons
                      -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
                      -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                      -Scowcroft
                      -Gerald L. Warren [?]
                      -William L. Safire [?]
                      -Ziegler
                      -Timmons
                                       -2-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. Oct.-09)
                                                      Conversation No. 857-1 (cont’d)




Briefing meeting
       - Flanigan
       -International monetary situation
       -Length
        -Scowcroft
       -George H. W. Bush
       -John A. Scali
       -Ehrlichman
       -Haldeman
       -Roy L. Ash
       -George P. Shultz

President's schedule
       -Next week
       -Ehrlichman

Sir Christopher Soames
       -European community
       -Meeting with President
               -Henry A. Kissinger’s recommendation
       -Cabinet meeting
       -Official position of Soames
       -Purpose of visit with President
               -European relations
               -Kissinger

Cabinet meeting

Haldeman
      -Appeal

US-Cuba hijacking agreement
     -Fidel Castro
     -President’s letter
     -Delay
                                            -3-

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Oct.-09)
                                                         Conversation No. 857-1 (cont’d)




                      -Haldeman’s opinion
               -Scowcroft’s role
               -Reply from President
                      -Ambassador to deliver message

       Flowers to Prisoners of War [POWs] wives
             -Response
             -Timing
                      -Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo

       Washington Star article
             -News summary
             -Washington Post, New York Times
             -Content
                    -Herblock

       Command cantor

       Dr. Walter R. Tkach
             -Editorial
                      -London paper

Bull left at 9:12 am.