President Nixon and Stephen B. Bull reviewed the President’s upcoming schedule, focusing on logistics for congressional meetings, receptions, and foreign leader visits. The discussion covered the simplification of arrival ceremonies for international dignitaries and the management of direct access protocols for telephone communications. They also finalized details for an upcoming presidential award ceremony and discussed Nixon’s preferences regarding his travel arrangements to Iceland, California, and various domestic retreats.
On May 22, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:06 am and 9:27 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 925-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 925-4 (cont’d)
Conversation No. 925-4
Date: May 22, 1973
Time: Unknown between 9:06 am and 9:27 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
President’s schedule
-Telephone call from Warren E. Burger, May 21
-Chief Justice appointment
-Anniversary
-Iceland trip
-Banquet
-Flight over volcano
-Congressional leaders meetings
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Republican leaders
-State whips reception
-Location
-Rehearsal [Prisoners of War [POW] reception]
-Cabinet room
-Timing
-Memorial Day
-Bipartisan Congressional leaders meeting
-Republican leadership meeting
-[Democratic] Congressional discussion
-Iceland trip
-Time difference
-William R. Talbert’s state visit
-Liberia
-Reception
-Arrival ceremony
-Trip
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Pakistan
-Bull’s conversation with Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
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Conversation No. 925-4 (cont’d)
-Reciprocal dinners
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
Telephone calls to the President
-Procedures
-White House staff members
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Direct access
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Haig
-Rose Mary Woods
-Direct access
-United States Secret Service [USSS]
-Screened calls
-Bull
President’s schedule
-Iceland trip
-Key Biscayne and Camp David
-Memorial Day radio message
-Speech writers
-Television [TV]
-Events outside Washington, DC
-Trip to Dirksen Research Center [Pekin Public Library]
-[Peoria], Illinois
-Key Biscayne
-Brezhnev summit
-San Clemente
-White House dinners
-Bhutto
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
-Arrival of ceremony
-Bhutto
-Arrival ceremony
-Kakuei Tanaka, Shah of Iran
-Arrival ceremony
-Hawaii
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Conversation No. 925-4 (cont’d)
-National Security Council [NSC]
-White House
-South Lawn
-Arrival ceremonies
-Compared to dinners
-Informality
-Tanaka
-State Department
-Shah of Iran
-Precedent
-Haile Selassie
-Bhutto
-Tanaka
-Arrival
-Hawaii
-Length
-Preparation
-Iceland trip
-Key Biscayne
-Camp David
-Charles C. Edwards and Robert S. Stone
-National Institutes of Health [NIH]
-Tom Moore
-Small business
-Irving Berlin
-Head manuscript author
-“God Bless America”
-Dinner
-Mary T. Brooks
-Presidential Medal presentation to the President
-Quality of medal
-Inaugural medal
-Photograph
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Distribution
-Bull’s forthcoming conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Atkins
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Conversation No. 925-4 (cont’d)
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:06 am and
9:27 am.
[Conversation No. 925-4A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 46-137]
[End telephone conversation]
President’s schedule
-Location
William P. Rogers’s schedule
-Return from Latin American trip
President’s schedule
-POW dinner
-Armed Services Committee
-Congressional attendees
-Leadership
-Armed Services, Appropriations Committees
-Leaders, President pro-tempore
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Regrets
-Milton R. Young
-Regrets
-Mansfield
Bull left at 9:27 am.
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