{"conversationCode":"008-055","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":55,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-055","startDateTime":"1971-09-08T19:08:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-08T23:40:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Sep-1971","startTime":"3:08 PM","endDate":"8-Sep-1971","endTime":"7:40 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Price, Raymond K., Jr.; White House operator; Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On September 8, 1971, Raymond K. Price, Jr., White House operator, and Alexander P. Butterfield talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:08 pm and 7:40 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-055 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 8-55\n\nDate: September 8, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:08 pm and 7:40 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nRaymond K. Price, Jr. talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for call to Alexander P. Butterfield\n         -Nellie L. Yates' office\n\nPrice talked with Butterfield.\n\n     The President's forthcoming speech to Congress\n          -Draft\n               -Price's location\n                      -Executive Office Building [EOB]\n                      -The President's requested meeting with Yates\n               -Typing\n                      -Progress\n\n                -Changes\n                     -Butterfield and Yates\n                          -Meeting with the President in the EOB","filename":["008-055.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:45:14","tapeEnd":"01:46:56","participantsList":["Price, Raymond K., Jr.","White House operator","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"008-054","nextCode":"008-056","transcript":[{"start":2.23,"end":6.11,"text":"Can I have Alex Butterfield, I think he may be in LAH's office."},{"start":44.09,"end":45.49,"text":"I'll be right with you, sir."},{"start":45.51,"end":45.67,"text":"Okay."},{"start":53.26,"end":53.78,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":53.8,"end":54.3,"text":"Hi, this is Ryan."},{"start":54.68,"end":54.78,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":54.8,"end":56.66,"text":"I'm in the President's office in the EOB."},{"start":56.7,"end":58.05,"text":"He'd like to have Nell come over here for good."},{"start":58.73,"end":59.47,"text":"Okay."},{"start":59.87,"end":64.41,"text":"He knows we're typing it now and we're about on page seven."},{"start":64.51,"end":65.03,"text":"Okay."},{"start":65.51,"end":68.8,"text":"Alex says if you know they're typing it now and they're about on page seven."},{"start":70.72,"end":71.18,"text":"Not like this."},{"start":71.61,"end":74.2,"text":"They were getting started on this for the day."},{"start":74.22,"end":77.02,"text":"Well, we'll come over."},{"start":78.47,"end":83.43,"text":"We'll come over there, right?"},{"start":83.45,"end":84.25,"text":"Right."},{"start":84.27,"end":87.2,"text":"Just a second."},{"start":88.12,"end":91.41,"text":"So just have her come over."},{"start":91.42,"end":95.61,"text":"Yeah, you might come over."},{"start":95.77,"end":98.6,"text":"There are a fair number of changes beginning about where you are."},{"start":98.88,"end":99.56,"text":"Okay, very good."},{"start":100.04,"end":100.24,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Raymond K. Price, Jr. contacted Alexander P. Butterfield to coordinate the final drafting stages of a speech the President was scheduled to deliver to Congress. Price, working from the Executive Office Building, requested that Nell Yates bring the current draft to his location to facilitate a review of necessary revisions. The pair confirmed that typing was underway and agreed to meet immediately to incorporate the required changes.","topics":["Presidential speeches","Speechwriting","White House staff","Administrative coordination","Executive Office Building"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:43:53.212Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-speeches","speechwriting","white-house-staff","administrative-coordination","executive-office-building"],"audioDurationSec":103,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-055.mp3","bytes":2465749,"durationSec":102.67,"bitrate":192131,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-055.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-055","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-055","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}