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- President Richard M. Nixon
- Stephen B. Bull
May 22, 1973
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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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
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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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
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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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
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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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
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
-5-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
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
-6-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
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
-7-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
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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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)