{"conversationCode":"362-014","tapeNumber":362,"conversationNumber":14,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-362-014","startDateTime":"1972-08-07T21:22:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-08-07T22:23:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Aug-1972","startTime":"5:22 PM","endDate":"7-Aug-1972","endTime":"6:23 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On August 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:22 pm and 6:23 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 362-014 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 362-14\n\nDate: August 7, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 5:22 pm and 6:23 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with Charles W. Colson.\n\n             Greetings\n\nThe President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield between 5:23 pm and 5:24 pm.\n\n[Conversation No. 362-14A]\n\n[See Conversation No. 29-36]\n\n[End of telephone conversation]\n\n             Materials for the President\n\n             Colson’s previous meeting with John B. Connally\n                 -Connally’s schedule\n\n             [No conversation]\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal returnable]\n[Duration: 47m 37s    ]\n\nButterfield entered at 6:18 pm.\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nColson left at 6:20 pm.\n\nThe President and Butterfield left at 6:23 pm.","filename":["362-014.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Colson, Charles W.","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"362-013","nextCode":"362-015","transcript":[{"start":9.89,"end":22.08,"text":"Since we've gone all out, we've ordered that ."},{"start":23.68,"end":36.97,"text":"It's pretty early now."},{"start":61.84,"end":62.52,"text":"No, no, no, no."},{"start":62.56,"end":64.35,"text":"There was nothing."},{"start":64.37,"end":66.93,"text":"I didn't know that."},{"start":67.01,"end":68.17,"text":"He had just started."},{"start":68.19,"end":71.8,"text":"He was racing through the grave, the things he was doing."},{"start":71.82,"end":74.48,"text":"He was very, very up."},{"start":75.11,"end":76.25,"text":"Good things were going for us."},{"start":77.55,"end":80.83,"text":"He'd like to go when you see that."},{"start":80.85,"end":82.86,"text":"But he borrowed it the day after."},{"start":123.69,"end":127.41,"text":"There's no need for it."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Charles W. Colson to review materials and discuss John B. Connally’s recent schedule and activities. The conversation touched upon political optics and the momentum of ongoing initiatives. Alexander P. Butterfield briefly joined the meeting toward its conclusion before the participants departed.","topics":["John B. Connally","Political strategy","White House operations","Scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T16:56:58.715Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-b-connally","political-strategy","white-house-operations","scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":272,"audioFiles":[{"file":"362-014.mp3","bytes":6522670,"durationSec":271.72,"bitrate":192040,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:44.539Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:26.902Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/362-014.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/362-014","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/362/conversation-362-014","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}