{"conversationCode":"283-046","tapeNumber":283,"conversationNumber":46,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-283-046","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 met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:59 pm to 3:00 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 283-046 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 283-046\n\nConversation No. 283-046\n\nDate: October 6, 1971\nTime: 2:59 pm - 3:00 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\nThe President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n[See Conversation No. 10-88]","filename":["283-046.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:30:15","tapeEnd":"04:39:47","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"283-045","nextCode":"283-047","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":17,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":17.02,"end":18.55,"text":"Yeah, I will change the cabinet thing, uh, on Friday the 4th, 30th, Tuesday."},{"start":18.57,"end":20.25,"text":"I, uh, I just, I will, I just told you on the phone that we were going to change it."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield briefly discussed the rescheduling of an upcoming Cabinet meeting. The primary focus was confirming the shift of the session from Friday to Tuesday, the 30th. This conversation served as a logistical follow-up to a previous phone discussion regarding adjustments to the President's official calendar.","topics":["Cabinet meetings","scheduling","White House logistics","Alexander Butterfield"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:23:54.898Z"},"topicSlugs":["cabinet-meetings","scheduling","white-house-logistics","alexander-butterfield"],"audioDurationSec":21,"audioFiles":[{"file":"283-046.mp3","bytes":844085,"durationSec":20.97,"bitrate":322052,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.614Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:15.874Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/283-046.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/283-046","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/283/conversation-283-046","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}