{"conversationCode":"004-088","tapeNumber":4,"conversationNumber":88,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-004-088","startDateTime":"1971-06-09T14:38:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-09T14:39:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Jun-1971","startTime":"10:38 AM","endDate":"9-Jun-1971","endTime":"10:39 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On June 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield talked on the telephone from 10:38 am to 10:39 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 004-088 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 4-88\n\nDate: June 9, 1971\nTime: 10:38 am - 10:39 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n[See Conversation No. 255-33B]\n\n     Housing statement\n          -Location\n               -John D. Ehrlichman\n               -Raymond K. Price, Jr.","filename":["004-088.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:19:10","tapeEnd":"03:19:28","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"004-087","nextCode":"004-089","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.47,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":1.65,"end":4.52,"text":"I marked up some of the housing statement."},{"start":4.94,"end":5.16,"text":"Right."},{"start":5.54,"end":8.32,"text":"Do you have it there, or is it gone to Ehrlichman?"},{"start":8.36,"end":10.19,"text":"He's here, and he doesn't have it yet."},{"start":10.21,"end":11.01,"text":"Oh, he doesn't have it yet?"},{"start":11.03,"end":11.69,"text":"Well, there we go."},{"start":12.09,"end":13.69,"text":"My baby, would you trace it off, send it over?"},{"start":13.71,"end":15.2,"text":"Between here and Price's, I'll get it right over."},{"start":15.21,"end":15.62,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":15.68,"end":16.12,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield coordinate the movement of a marked-up draft of a housing policy statement. Nixon instructs Butterfield to expedite the delivery of the document to John D. Ehrlichman. The brief exchange concludes with Butterfield promising to retrieve the draft from Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s office and send it over immediately.","topics":["Housing policy","Administrative coordination","John D. Ehrlichman","Raymond K. Price, Jr.","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:48:06.850Z"},"topicSlugs":["housing-policy","administrative-coordination","john-d-ehrlichman","raymond-k-price-jr","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":17,"audioFiles":[{"file":"004-088.mp3","bytes":216542,"durationSec":17.45,"bitrate":99255,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.077Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/004-088.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/004-088","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/4/conversation-004-088","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}