Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 884 › Conversation 884-019

Nixon & Bull on White House staff and Caspar Weinberger

Tuesday, March 20, 1973 · 3:11 PM–3:16 PM ET · Oval Office · 1 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.Conversation884-019 on Tape 884StartTuesday, March 20, 1973 at 3:11 PMEndTuesday, March 20, 1973 at 3:16 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 884-019 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon and Stephen Bull reviewed the President’s upcoming schedule, focusing on the availability of staff for key meetings and the logistics of official engagements. They discussed the scheduling of Cabinet members and advisors, specifically noting Caspar Weinberger’s absence in San Francisco and the timing of a future meeting with George H.W. Bush regarding the Congressional Campaign Committee. These administrative discussions served to coordinate upcoming staff interactions and prioritize essential appointments for the following days.

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Um, Weinberger is in San Francisco today.
Do you still want to have a council meeting with Weinberger?
He's not here.
So, General, if you feel that you need him, he doesn't feel pro-recon either way.
He would set up to come in order to run his actual association, whatever.
Well, I think, just tell her, and I'll see you in the start.
To see General?
Yeah.
Tomorrow we have a tower coming in, we're going to have a 1250, we're going to see the pier over that.
Here, here.
On the 21st, Wednesday, they're going to let the new congressional campaign be in charge and recommended on Thursday that you see Bush in the campaign.

NARA Description

On March 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:11 pm and 3:16 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 884-019 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 884-19

Date: March 20, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:11 pm and 3:16 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

       President’s schedule
             -Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s call to President
             -George P. Shultz
             -John D. Ehrlichman
             -Meeting
                   -Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger's attendance
                        -San Francisco
                        -Ehrlichman
                   -Anne L. Armstrong
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                                            Conversation No. 884-19 (cont’d)

              -[unintelligible name]
              -Meeting with George H. W. Bush
                    -Congressional Campaign Committee
                    -Length

Bull left at 3:16 pm.

Also recorded on March 20, 1973

  • 037-169 2:31 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:31 pm and 3:10 pm.
  • 884-018 2:31 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:31 pm and 3:11 pm.
  • 884-025 2:31 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:31 pm and 3:11 pm.
  • 037-170 3:10 PM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 3:10 pm to 3:19 pm.
  • 884-020 3:16 PM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:16 pm and 3:19 pm.
  • 884-021 3:19 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:19 pm and 3:26 pm.
  • 884-022 3:19 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:19 pm and 3:26 pm.
  • 884-023 3:26 PM · 59 min — President Richard M. Nixon, George H. W. Bush, Linwood Holton, William T. Cahill, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., unknown person(s), John D. Ehrlichman, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:26 pm to 4:26 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 884-019, March 20, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/884-019 (accessed October 2, 2026).