{"conversationCode":"324-016","tapeNumber":324,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-324-016","startDateTime":"1972-03-23T03:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-23T04:01:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Mar-1972","startTime":"10:11 PM","endDate":"22-Mar-1972","endTime":"11:01 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On March 22, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:11 pm and 11:01 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 324-016 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. 324-16\n\nDate: March 22, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 10:11 am and 11:01 am\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n     Briefing book\n           -Changes\n                -William L. Safire\n                -Patrick J. Buchanan\n                -Pages\n\nButterfield left at an unknown time before 11:01 am.","filename":["324-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:45:35","tapeEnd":"01:46:40","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"324-015","nextCode":"324-017","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":15.49,"text":"The sapphire changes are just additional pages."},{"start":16.57,"end":17.11,"text":"Some changes, some changes."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Alexander P. Butterfield to address modifications and additions to a briefing book. The discussion focused on specific revisions being prepared by speechwriters William L. Safire and Patrick J. Buchanan. The President reviewed the inclusion of new pages to finalize the contents of the document.","topics":["Briefing book","William L. Safire","Patrick J. Buchanan","White House operations","Administrative coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T15:07:18.832Z"},"topicSlugs":["briefing-book","william-l-safire","patrick-j-buchanan","white-house-operations","administrative-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":23,"audioFiles":[{"file":"324-016.mp3","bytes":923481,"durationSec":22.95,"bitrate":321923,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.569Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/324-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/324-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/324/conversation-324-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}