{"conversationCode":"008-058","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":58,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-058","startDateTime":"1971-09-09T00:33:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-09T00:34:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Sep-1971","startTime":"8:33 PM","endDate":"8-Sep-1971","endTime":"8:34 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On September 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield talked on the telephone from 8:33 pm to 8:34 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-058 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. 8-58\n\nDate: September 8, 1971\nTime: 8:33 pm - 8:34 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nAlexander P. Butterfield talked with the President.\n\n     The President's forthcoming speech to Congress\n          -Draft\n               -Typing\n                      -Progress\n               -Nellie L. Yates\n               -Yates' delivery to the President\n                      -Lincoln Sitting Room","filename":["008-058.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:48:06","tapeEnd":"01:48:38","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"008-057","nextCode":"008-059","transcript":[{"start":3.61,"end":8.07,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":8.09,"end":12.04,"text":"Mr. President, it would be helpful to you if I brought up two-thirds of this."},{"start":12.06,"end":14.54,"text":"It's going to run 21 pages about, and I've got 14 of them."},{"start":14.56,"end":15.06,"text":"Oh, no, no."},{"start":15.2,"end":28.08,"text":"Just wait until she finishes it all and she brings it up, and I can look it over and tell her if there's any page I want to change, okay?"},{"start":28.1,"end":28.28,"text":"Fine, no."},{"start":28.3,"end":30.02,"text":"Don't rush her, though, because she hasn't done it for the first time."},{"start":30.2,"end":30.58,"text":"No hurry, no hurry."},{"start":30.6,"end":30.96,"text":"I'm in good shape."},{"start":30.98,"end":31.18,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield discussed the status of a draft speech intended for delivery to Congress. Nixon instructed Butterfield to wait until the document was fully completed by typist Nellie L. Yates rather than reviewing it in partial segments. The President emphasized that there was no urgency in receiving the draft, opting to review the entire 21-page document once it was ready.","topics":["Presidential speeches","White House staff","Speechwriting","Administrative coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:44:09.176Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-speeches","white-house-staff","speechwriting","administrative-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":33,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-058.mp3","bytes":784926,"durationSec":32.65,"bitrate":192308,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-058.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-058","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-058","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}