{"conversationCode":"003-143","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":143,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-143","startDateTime":"1971-05-26T22:46:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-26T22:50:00.000Z","startDate":"26-May-1971","startTime":"6:46 PM","endDate":"26-May-1971","endTime":"6:50 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Butterfield, Alexander P.; White House operator; Sidley, Toni;","description":"On May 26, 1971, Alexander P. Butterfield, White House operator, and Toni Sidley talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:46 pm and 6:50 pm. 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(“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman\n         -Envelope\n         -Copy","filename":["003-143.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:32:25","tapeEnd":"03:33:54","participantsList":["Butterfield, Alexander P.","White House operator","Sidley, Toni"],"prevCode":"003-142","nextCode":"003-144","transcript":[{"start":0.22,"end":1.44,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":1.46,"end":2.42,"text":"Listen, Mr. Butterfidge, your ring."},{"start":2.46,"end":4.34,"text":"Tony Sidley, my secretary, please."},{"start":4.36,"end":7.49,"text":"Uh-huh, and is the president talking on the phone?"},{"start":7.51,"end":8.51,"text":"To Henry Kissinger, yes."},{"start":8.53,"end":11.41,"text":"Yeah, I have Director Hoover returning his call now."},{"start":11.47,"end":12.61,"text":"Returning the president's call?"},{"start":12.63,"end":14.32,"text":"Yes, uh-huh."},{"start":14.34,"end":15.68,"text":"Okay, let me just tell him."},{"start":15.74,"end":17.68,"text":"I'm waiting until he gets off the phone just to go in there."},{"start":17.74,"end":19.62,"text":"I'm just in his outer office, and I'll tell him that."},{"start":20.36,"end":21.11,"text":"All right."},{"start":21.13,"end":22.69,"text":"Or I'll tell you to connect Hoover."},{"start":23.45,"end":23.65,"text":"All right."},{"start":23.67,"end":24.81,"text":"But the president is busy now."},{"start":25.05,"end":27.36,"text":"Yeah, well, I thought he was this morning, so..."},{"start":28.08,"end":30.12,"text":"That's Johnny Sedley?"},{"start":30.14,"end":31.59,"text":"Yes, in my office."},{"start":31.61,"end":32.77,"text":"Okay, in your office?"},{"start":32.79,"end":33.76,"text":"Yes, she's my secretary."},{"start":34.24,"end":34.36,"text":"Oh."},{"start":34.8,"end":36.77,"text":"You didn't know that?"},{"start":36.78,"end":37.25,"text":"Mrs. Sedley?"},{"start":37.63,"end":38.31,"text":"Yes."},{"start":39.09,"end":39.35,"text":"Okay."},{"start":47.63,"end":49.1,"text":"Mr. Butterfield's office."},{"start":49.16,"end":70.5,"text":"Mr. Sidley, when you finish the thing to Haldeman and to Ehrlichman, before you go, would you type on an envelope big enough to put one of those security folders in, so it has to be bigger than the paper, to be opened only by Mr. John Ehrlichman, confidential slash sensitive,"},{"start":70.48,"end":74.63,"text":"And, you know, to be known as Mr. Erlichman, I'll take this thing up and leave it with him."},{"start":74.65,"end":74.77,"text":"Okay."},{"start":74.79,"end":76.54,"text":"Does a copy have to be made of the Erlichman one?"},{"start":77.06,"end":77.44,"text":"Does a what?"},{"start":77.74,"end":79.7,"text":"A copy have to be made of the one?"},{"start":79.84,"end":79.98,"text":"No."},{"start":80,"end":81.69,"text":"The little thing, the Erlichman?"},{"start":81.71,"end":81.81,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":81.83,"end":81.89,"text":"No."},{"start":81.91,"end":83.35,"text":"You've got a copy of the report to give him."},{"start":83.53,"end":84.23,"text":"Oops, I got to run."},{"start":84.25,"end":85.13,"text":"Yeah, I've got everything."},{"start":85.15,"end":85.73,"text":"Okay, bye."},{"start":85.75,"end":86,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Alexander P. Butterfield coordinates communication between the White House switchboard and his staff regarding J. Edgar Hoover’s attempt to reach the President, who is currently occupied on a call with Henry Kissinger. Additionally, Butterfield provides specific administrative instructions to his secretary, Toni Sidley, regarding the secure preparation and delivery of a confidential report for John Ehrlichman. These instructions emphasize the need for specialized envelope handling to maintain the sensitivity of the document.","topics":["J. 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