{"conversationCode":"319-005","tapeNumber":319,"conversationNumber":5,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-319-005","startDateTime":"1972-02-07T20:04:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-07T20:09:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Feb-1972","startTime":"3:04 PM","endDate":"7-Feb-1972","endTime":"3:09 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On February 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:04 pm to 3:09 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 319-005 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 319-5\n\nDate: February 7, 1972\nTime: 3:04 pm - 3:09 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n     President’s schedule\n           -Speech\n           -Cabinet meeting\n           -Agenda\n           -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n           -Congressional leaders meeting\n           -Agenda\n                -Dock strike\n                -Welfare situation\n                -Value-added tax [VAT]\n                -William P. Rogers\n                -House and Senate reports\n           -Maurice H. Stans\n                -Final meeting\n\nButterfield left at 3:09 pm.","filename":["319-005.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:09:27","tapeEnd":"00:11:47","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"319-004","nextCode":"319-006","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":25.42,"text":"So before writing into that speech, time is short on this cabinet meeting."},{"start":25.44,"end":26.27,"text":"Do you want to look at this final agenda?"},{"start":26.29,"end":27.17,"text":"Bob said he'd get a few by three, so leader."},{"start":27.19,"end":27.71,"text":"Yeah, leader plus cabinet."},{"start":27.73,"end":28.57,"text":"Let's pick it up and guide him as he goes."},{"start":28.59,"end":28.79,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":28.81,"end":29.01,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":30.96,"end":59.43,"text":"I'm not sure."},{"start":65.41,"end":83.69,"text":"What about the cabinet chair?"},{"start":83.71,"end":87.32,"text":"Do you want to just reference that at the beginning, and we can have Amari sitting in his chair?"},{"start":87.34,"end":88.76,"text":"This will be his last meeting."},{"start":88.78,"end":89.3,"text":"Or do you want to even..."},{"start":99.88,"end":102.11,"text":"Thank you very much."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met to finalize the scheduling and agendas for an upcoming Cabinet meeting and a session with Congressional leaders. The discussion focused on coordinating topics for the Cabinet, including the ongoing dock strike, welfare reform, and the proposed value-added tax. They also addressed protocol for the final meeting of Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans.","topics":["White House scheduling","Cabinet meeting agenda","Congressional relations","Dock strike","Welfare reform","Value-added tax","Maurice Stans"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:50:00.460Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-scheduling","cabinet-meeting-agenda","congressional-relations","dock-strike","welfare-reform","value-added-tax","maurice-stans"],"audioDurationSec":102,"audioFiles":[{"file":"319-005.mp3","bytes":4098926,"durationSec":102.33,"bitrate":320450,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.567Z","transcriptGapSeconds":72,"transcriptGapShare":0.71,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/319-005.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/319-005","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/319/conversation-319-005","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}