Conversation: 903-004
Prev:  903-003 Next: 903-005Start Date: 20-Apr-1973 10:35 AM
End Date: 20-Apr-1973 10:57 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Bush, George H. W.; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On April 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and George H. W. Bush met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:35 am and 10:57 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 903-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 903-4 Date: April 20, 1973 Time: Unknown between 10:35 am and 10:57 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Stephen B. Bull. President’s schedule -4- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. April-2011) Conversation No. 903-4 (cont’d) -Telephone call recommendations -Delay -Legislative bill Bull left and George H. W. Bush entered at 10:36 am. ***************************************************************** [Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift] Bush’s meeting with Ronald W. Reagan -Robert H. Finch’s candidacy -California -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s knowledge [?] -Finch’s conversation with President -Reagan’s schedule -Phoenix -Governor’s conference Bush’s lunch with Kenneth W. Clawson and David M. Packard -California -Finch’s Political plans -Senate -Governor Bush’s meeting with Reagan -Finch -Retirement -Constitutional Amendment -Patronage -Reagan’s position -Toughness of Reagan -Candidacy for Governor President’s conversation with Finch President’s forthcoming meeting with Reagan -5- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. April-2011) Conversation No. 903-4 (cont’d) -Finch -President’s support -Senate -California Governor’s race -Edwin Reinecke -Reagan’s choice -President’s conversation with Reagan San Clemente, California -New York -Reagan’s schedule [End segment reviewed under deed of gift] ***************************************************************** Watergate -Grand Jury -Ervin Committee -John N. Mitchell -Martha (Beall) Mitchell -Henry E. Petersen -Kenneth S. Rietz’s involvement -Grand Jury’s purview -Dirty tricks -Edmund S. Muskie -President’s conversation with Petersen -Dirty tricks -Rietz -Involvement -Jerris Leonard -Conversations with Bush -Dirty tricks -Prevalence -Rietz -Departure -Conversation with Bush, April 18, 1973 -Jeb Stuart Magruder’s forthcoming testimony -6- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. April-2011) Conversation No. 903-4 (cont’d) -Involvement -Effects -President -Republicans -Capitol Hill reactions -President’s actions -Ronald L. Ziegler’s statement -Investigation -Comparison with Sherman Adams and Dwight D. Eisenhower -Future of those involved -Possible statement by Bush -President’s investigation -Press -Haldeman -John W. Dean, III -Bush’s conversation with John Linton of Newsweek -Disclosures -Grand Jury -Ervin Committee -Departures from White House staff -Effect -Indictments -Lack of corroborating evidence -Mitchell -Martha (Beall) Mitchell -Magruder -Telephone call from Executive Office Building [EOB] to Republican National Committee [RNC] -Tom Allias [?] -Jack N. Anderson -Payment for mailing -Bush’s call to W. Richard Howard -White House staff -Dean -Conversations with President -Magruder -Mitchell -7- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. April-2011) Conversation No. 903-4 (cont’d) -Rietz -Departure from RNC staff -William E. Brock, III -Tom Lyons -Pat Wilson -Conversations with Bush -Bush’s conversation with Petersen -Magruder testimony -Meeting with Bush and President -Bush’s morale -William P. Rogers -Conversations with Bush and President -Possible statement by Bush Bush left at 10:57 am.