{"conversationCode":"334-020","tapeNumber":334,"conversationNumber":20,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-334-020","startDateTime":"1972-05-02T17:22:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-02T17:23:00.000Z","startDate":"2-May-1972","startTime":"1:22 PM","endDate":"2-May-1972","endTime":"1:23 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On May 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:22 pm to 1:23 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 334-020 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. 334-20\n\nDate: May 2, 1972\nTime: 1:22 pm - 1:23 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n     A book\n\nButterfield left at 1:23 pm.","filename":["334-020.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:57:25","tapeEnd":"01:57:56","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"334-019","nextCode":"334-021","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":9.9,"text":"All right."},{"start":9.92,"end":10.26,"text":"Watch your mouth."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met briefly with Alexander P. Butterfield to discuss a specific book. The conversation was extremely short, lasting only one minute, and lacked substantive policy deliberations. Butterfield departed immediately after the brief exchange regarding the volume.","topics":["Alexander P. Butterfield","Books","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T15:43:04.040Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-p-butterfield","books","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":14,"audioFiles":[{"file":"334-020.mp3","bytes":568211,"durationSec":14.07,"bitrate":323033,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.908Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/334-020.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/334-020","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/334/conversation-334-020","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}