{"conversationCode":"919-025","tapeNumber":919,"conversationNumber":25,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-919-025","startDateTime":"1973-05-16T15:49:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-05-16T16:34:00.000Z","startDate":"16-May-1973","startTime":"11:49 AM","endDate":"16-May-1973","endTime":"12:34 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On May 16, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:49 am and 12:34 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 919-025 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":"5.5","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part V","chronReleaseDate":"21-Aug-2013","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 919-25\n\nDate: May 16, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 11:49 am and 12:34 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Stephen B. Bull.\n\n       President’s signature\n\n       White House social events\n             -Etiquette\n\n       President’s schedule\n              -Henry A. Kissinger’s recommendation\n                      -Council of the Americas, Board of Trustees\n                      -David Rockefeller\n              -Meeting with Mustafizur Rahman Siddiqui\n                      -Bangladesh\n                      -Duration\n                      -Letter from Sheik Mujibur Rahman\n\nBull left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.\n\f                                              -42-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["919-025.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"919-024","nextCode":"919-026","transcript":[{"start":0.96,"end":2.1,"text":"I don't see the child."},{"start":62.89,"end":66.21,"text":"Yeah, the only one I can't understand."},{"start":66.27,"end":71.31,"text":"The Kissinger submitted another statement of recommendation for tomorrow at 10 a.m."},{"start":72.08,"end":78.28,"text":"It was the Board of Trustees of the Council of the Americans, this is David Roderick on his group, and they didn't know."},{"start":79.02,"end":81.04,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":83.42,"end":85.56,"text":"But they want to talk about it."},{"start":85.64,"end":88.92,"text":"And Henry's stuff is so jackass that he didn't get some thought out of it."},{"start":137.15,"end":138.03,"text":"Wait until 11."},{"start":138.07,"end":139.29,"text":"Wait until 11."},{"start":140.09,"end":140.81,"text":"Wait until 11."},{"start":140.87,"end":141.65,"text":"Wait until 11."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Stephen B. Bull reviewed the President’s upcoming schedule and administrative details regarding social events. The discussion focused on a meeting request from the Council of the Americas’ Board of Trustees, an invitation championed by Henry Kissinger that Nixon criticized for poor planning. They also addressed scheduling arrangements for a meeting with Mustafizur Rahman Siddiqui of Bangladesh, ultimately deciding to delay certain agenda items until 11:00 a.m.","topics":["Presidential schedule","Henry Kissinger","Council of the Americas","David Rockefeller","Bangladesh","Mustafizur Rahman Siddiqui","White House administration"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-09T00:13:23.130Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-schedule","henry-kissinger","council-of-the-americas","david-rockefeller","bangladesh","mustafizur-rahman-siddiqui","white-house-administration"],"audioDurationSec":178,"audioFiles":[{"file":"919-025.mp3","bytes":5699584,"durationSec":177.97,"bitrate":256199,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:06.647Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:45:02.983Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/919-025.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/919-025","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/919/conversation-919-025","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}