Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 29 › Conversation 029-036

Nixon phone call with Butterfield on White House logistics

Monday, August 7, 1972 · 5:23 PM–5:24 PM ET · White House Telephone · 43 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.Conversation029-036 on Tape 29StartMonday, August 7, 1972 at 5:23 PMEndMonday, August 7, 1972 at 5:24 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 029-036 ↗

AI Summary

President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield held a brief telephone conversation to coordinate the President's upcoming schedule. The discussion served as a logistical check-in regarding official calendar management. No significant policy decisions were recorded during this short exchange.

Audio

Download MP3 · 1.0 MB

Transcript (AI-generated)

This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Names and numbers are often wrong; speakers are not identified. Do not cite it as authoritative — verify against the audio and the finding aid.

Download transcript (.txt) · JSON data

Bye.

NARA Description

On August 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield talked on the telephone from 5:23 pm to 5:24 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 029-036 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 29-36

Date: August 7, 1972
Time: 5:23 pm - 5:24 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 362-14A]

     The President’s schedule

Also recorded on August 7, 1972

  • 763-026 4:25 PM · 20 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:25 pm and 4:33 pm.
  • 763-027 4:33 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:33 pm and 4:34 pm.
  • 764-001 4:33 PM · 56 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, Henry A. Kissinger, White House operator, and Anatoliy F. Dobrynin met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:33 pm to 5:21 pm.
  • 029-034 4:34 PM · 2 min — Henry A. Kissinger, Arthur F. Burns, and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:34 pm and 5:21 pm.
  • 029-035 4:34 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:34 pm and 5:23 pm.
  • 362-013 5:22 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:22 pm and 5:23 pm.
  • 362-014 5:22 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:22 pm and 6:23 pm.
  • 029-037 5:24 PM · 10 sec — the recording device engaged at an unknown time between 5:24 pm and 7:50 pm, but the conversation appears to be blank.

All 38 conversations from August 7, 1972 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 029-036, August 7, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/029-036 (accessed October 1, 2026).