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Start Date: 21-Feb-1973 8:27 AM

End Date: 21-Feb-1973 8:40 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

859-001.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:27 am to 8:40 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 859-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 859-1

Date: February 21, 1973
Time: 8:27 am - 8:40 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

       President’s schedule
              -Henry A. Kissinger, William E. Timmons
              -Ambassador Dr. David K. E. Bruce
              -President’s meeting with leaders from Pakistan
                      -Kissinger’s recommendation (March 8 and 9)
                              -President Ali Bhutto
                              -Mustafa Khar
                              -Azid Ahmed
              -Bhutto
                      -Meeting with President
                              -Delay
                                     -US elections
                      -US arms
                      -Political support
                      -President’s previous meeting
                      -Monday and Tuesday
                      -Wednesday
                              -Open day
                      -Thursday and Friday
              -Boy Scouts of America
                      -President’s appearance at convention
                              -Honorary chairman
                              -Scouts’ Report to the Nation
              -Harry S. Dent
                      -Meeting with President
                              -Departure
              -Joe O. Waggoner, Jr.
                               -2-

    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                       Tape Subject Log
                         (rev. Nov.-09)
                                                Conversation No. 859-1 (cont’d)



        -Mardi Gras king and queen reception
        -Cabinet Room
                -Photographs
        -Reasons for meeting
                -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Paul Findley
        -Meeting with President
                -Haldeman’s opposition
                -Reasons
                -Attendance at Congressional supporters’ reception
                -Timmons’s support
                -Atlantic Union
                        -Helmut Sonnenfeldt’s meeting with Findley
        -Scheduling
-Breakfast for Republican Congressional freshmen, leaders
        -Format
                -Press photographs
                -Briefing
-Mayor Walter E. Washington
        -John D. Ehrlichman, James T. Lynn, Dana G. Mead
                -Swearing-in ceremony
                        -Length
-Swearing-in of James Keogh
        -Meeting with President
-Irving Kristol
        -Public Interest magazine editor
        -Ehrlichman’s support
        -Meeting with President
                -Scheduling
-National Association of School Administrators
        -National Convention
                -President's appearance
                        -Ehrlichman's recommendation
                        -Closing session, February 28, 1973
                        -Atlantic City
                        -Scheduling
                                             -3-

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Nov.-09)
                                                              Conversation No. 859-1 (cont’d)



                             -Purpose
                                    -New priorities in education
                                          -Ehrlichman’s views
                                          -Primary and Secondary compared to higher
education
               -William L. Duncan and Robert H. Taylor
                      -Meeting with the President
                             -Photographs
               -Rex W. Scouten
                      -Plans on bowling alley
                      -Meeting with President
                             -Scheduling
               -Governors and wives
                      -National Governors Conference attendees’ dinner
                             -Cabinet and Vice President’s attendance
                             -Number of people
                             -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson
                             -Tables
                             -Cameras
                             -Entertainment
                                    -Army Chorus
               -Norman Vincent Peale
                      -Speaking engagement
                             -Length

Bull left at 8:40 am.