{"conversationCode":"010-088","tapeNumber":10,"conversationNumber":88,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-010-088","startDateTime":"1971-10-06T18:59:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-06T19:00:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Oct-1971","startTime":"2:59 PM","endDate":"6-Oct-1971","endTime":"3:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On October 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield talked on the telephone from 2:59 pm to 3:00 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 010-088 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. 10-88\n\nDate: October 6, 1971\nTime: 2:59 pm - 3:00 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n     President's schedule\n          -Cabinet meeting, October 12\n                 -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n                 -Connally","filename":["010-088.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:49:27","tapeEnd":"02:49:48","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"010-087","nextCode":"010-089","transcript":[{"start":1.58,"end":2.73,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":2.75,"end":3.25,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":3.27,"end":8.13,"text":"Yeah, I would change the cabinet thing from Friday to 4.30 on Tuesday."},{"start":8.62,"end":9.4,"text":"Oh, okay."},{"start":9.42,"end":10.7,"text":"No Friday, no breakfast."},{"start":10.78,"end":11.8,"text":"I just told Bob about it."},{"start":11.82,"end":14.22,"text":"Yeah, we're going to change it because we want to leave Connolly free."},{"start":14.37,"end":14.93,"text":"All right, you're good."},{"start":14.95,"end":16.37,"text":"4.30 Tuesday."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed Alexander P. Butterfield to reschedule a planned Cabinet meeting from Friday to 4:30 p.m. on the following Tuesday. This adjustment was made specifically to accommodate the schedule of Treasury Secretary John Connally. Butterfield confirmed that he had already coordinated the change with Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","Cabinet meetings","John Connally","H.R. Haldeman","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:10:29.293Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","cabinet-meetings","john-connally","h-r-haldeman","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":21,"audioFiles":[{"file":"010-088.mp3","bytes":497161,"durationSec":20.64,"bitrate":192720,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.709Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/010-088.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/010-088","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/10/conversation-010-088","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}