Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 886 › Conversation 886-015
Nixon & Bull on White House administration and George P. Shultz
Wednesday, March 21, 1973 · 12:54 PM–1:05 PM ET · Oval Office · 8 min
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President Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met to review the President's upcoming schedule, focusing on logistical arrangements for a Florida trip and various administrative appointments. They discussed the coordination of high-level meetings with officials such as George P. Shultz, as well as the management of media events and courtesy photo sessions. Nixon explicitly directed Bull to postpone decisions regarding a potential meeting with state legislators and confirmed his refusal to host a reception for the Organization of American States.
- Presidential scheduling
- White House administration
- George P. Shultz
- Public relations
- Organization of American States
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Colonel is probably not going to be able to make it because he's processing it well.
We'll try to work out another time if that works.
I think, I think we need, I think we need to
45 minutes when you figure 45.
In other words, if you teach down here at 3.30, let's figure the helicopter.
Land at 4.15.
All right, sir.
Since there's no family members going anyways, if you wanted to land, listen from.
I think, actually, let's just figure something out.
Let's see.
4.30.
3.30 to 4.30.
3.30 to 4.30.
I want to hear about .
Yes, sir.
We're consolidating things .
One of those lines, four-year-old grandson .
We have a worship service coming up on the 15th of April, which is on Sunday.
Now, our last minister is a Catholic.
He's going to have to deliver a very good sermon, unfortunately, but we're going to be able to get the next service we're going to have to be the LDS of the Black Baptist.
And, uh, we're going to be on Sunday.
Next week, we're going to be just as clear as possible, so
Well, more or less.
I don't want you to set up anything now, but you can take things on a panicky basis.
Certainly.
We're saying Friday morning.
On those, you can have
We've got to keep things open from the standpoint of a possible press conference situation, which could change.
But we will know in plenty of time that we can figure it on Thursday, Friday, and possibly part of Wednesday, if you're going to have time.
Of course, we've got levels of secrecy, and it's courtesy of MSN and labor management that cost a living, maybe a quad grad, you know, get Schultz, for instance,
If you're going to have to schedule Schultz when I come back, that should be scheduled on the basis of either Wednesday or Thursday, probably Wednesday.
When I was saying...
The next project we're having on Troy State is going to be councilor's lady, Ms. Weinberger, and then head representative Roy Hatch, one of the state legislators, now appearing in the minute.
Suggested that you open it up.
This started, I feel, in the 30s.
Again, this is, again, it's on budget.
I feel that this group of state legislators, it'll be primarily the leaders of, I don't announce them,
I will not do it under any circumstances that it's announced.
I don't want to be, I don't want to be, I will not be, uh, see, I don't want to be told that, I don't want to be committed to it.
I'll keep my option open, seriously.
All right, so I'm raising it.
Thanks for raising it.
Sure.
No, yeah, that's right.
We'll know then whether I can or we can't.
The labor management thing comes first.
Whether I can go by that or not.
I don't want to announce it, I don't want to do that, just that that's something I've got to decide after John.
A couple of criticism has been suggested.
Shaq, Shaq Bird, the Chief of the Manitoba Air Force, our newspaper, is retiring.
So yeah, I'd like to suggest bringing in John for a grant.
There's a pair of chairs for Oscar.
We'd like to include a picture of the president himself on the jacket of the book.
This is a photograph of the character.
I don't know if there are any problems with that.
And this is David Nansky.
This is the president's second name.
And if I'm wrong, this is the first time I've been to the past three years to present this courage and work for the American Cancer Society.
I remember two years ago it was in the Texas issue.
Not this year.
So I think by the end of the day, he's going to pretend that, uh, that, uh, that, uh, that, uh, that, uh, that, uh,
Last week you asked me to inquire whether or not Secretary Rodgers was going to have the OAS here in April.
This was within the context.
They want me to have something.
Well, yes, Secretary, each other got down.
But I did check your back channel.
And the Secretary's hosting a luncheon for the OAS people.
What did we finally decide on?
Make sure we don't do it.
Your decision on the OAS was absolutely not to host a reception.
You can make it something for the diplomatic corps as a whole in the fall, which will be important in the OAS.
And no, I don't consider it one as impressive.
I don't think it's impressive.
I think it's probably, I don't consider it, but I don't want to get involved in doing true receptions or racism.
I don't think it's impressive.
It's racist.
It's racist.
It's racist.
It's racist.
Okay, I'll take care of that around here.
NARA Description
On March 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:54 pm to 1:05 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 886-015 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 886-15
Date: March 21, 1973
Time: 12:54 pm - 1:05 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
President’s signature [?]
President's schedule
-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-Col. John B. Flynn
-Health
-Meeting with Schultz
-Length
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Helicopter landing
-Trip to Florida
-Departure
-Family members
-Congressional relations
-President's meeting with Herbert G. Klein and family
-30-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 886-15 (cont’d)
-Worship service in Florida
-Palm Sunday
-Denomination of church
-Catholic
-Quality of Sermon
-Baptist
-Congressional leadership meeting
-Labor Management Advisory Board
-Postponement
-Press conference
-Courtesy events
-Labor Management Advisory Board
-Cost of Living Council
-Quadriad meeting
-Shultz, Ehrlichman
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Roy L. Ash
-Meeting with state legislators
-Budget issue
-Announcement
-Labor Management Advisory Board
-Priority
-Courtesy events
-Roland H. Shackford
-Journalist for Scripps-Howard newspapers
-Photograph
-Photograph sessions
-Oscar Burger
-Book jacket
-American Cancer Society
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Award
-Texas
-William P. Rogers
-[Unintelligible name]
-Dinner
-Organization of American States [OAS] reception
-Luncheon
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 886-15 (cont’d)
-President's presence
-Diplomatic Corps reception
-Henry A. Kissinger
Bull left at 1:05 pm.Also recorded on March 21, 1973
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- 421-001 1:21 PM · 55 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:21 pm and 2:23 pm.
- 421-002 1:21 PM · 15 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:21 pm and 2:23 pm.
- 886-019 1:21 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:21 pm and 11:59 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 886-015, March 21, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/886-015 (accessed October 12, 2026).