Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 260 › Conversation 260-025
Nixon, Andrews & Butterfield on White House administration
Friday, July 2, 1971 · 6:35 PM–6:47 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building
AI Summary
President Nixon met with Alexander P. Butterfield, Rose Mary Woods, and briefly with John K. Andrews, Jr. in his Old Executive Office Building office to address internal administrative or scheduling matters. The discussion largely remained unintelligible, consisting of brief consultations with his staff before they departed. No substantive policy decisions or historical milestones were recorded during this brief administrative meeting.
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NARA Description
On July 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, Rose Mary Woods, and John K. Andrews, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 6:35 pm to 6:47 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 260-025 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 260-25
Date: July 2, 1971
Time: 6:35 pm - 6:47 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Rose Mary Woods.
[Unintelligible]
The President talked with John K. Andrews, Jr. between 6:36 pm and 6:37 pm.
[Conversation No. 260-25A]
[See Conversation No. 6-109]
[End of telephone conversation]
[Unintelligible]
Butterfield and Woods left at 6:47 pm.Also recorded on July 2, 1971
- 006-107 6:10 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon, William E. Timmons, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 6:10 pm to 6:16 pm.
- 006-108 6:16 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:16 pm and 6:36 pm.
- 260-022 6:29 PM · 3 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 6:29 pm and 6:31 pm.
- 260-023 6:31 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 6:31 pm to 6:32 pm.
- 260-024 6:32 PM · 2 min — 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 6:32 pm and 6:36 pm.
- 006-109 6:36 PM · 52 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and John K. Andrews, Jr. talked on the telephone from 6:36 pm to 6:37 pm.
- 006-110 6:50 PM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:50 pm and 7:05 pm.
- 006-111 7:05 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 7:05 pm to 7:08 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 260-025, July 2, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/260-025 (accessed October 6, 2026).