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Nixon & Butterfield on Presidential travel and Administrative logistics

Wednesday, October 25, 1972 · 2:30 PM–2:32 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 3 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.Conversation372-030 on Tape 372StartWednesday, October 25, 1972 at 2:30 PMEndWednesday, October 25, 1972 at 2:32 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 372-030 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon and Alexander Butterfield coordinate the scheduling of administrative tasks and media responsibilities, specifically emphasizing the need to defer workload items to Friday. Nixon directs that various outstanding assignments and radio response recordings be pushed back to accommodate his travel preparations for a trip to Kentucky. The brief discussion serves to clear the President's Thursday schedule while ensuring pending obligations are still addressed by the end of the week.

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Hello.
Alex, do you have a farm speed shift?
Well, you'll have to jack him up on that, because I've forgotten how to do it.
But on Thursday, I can't do it too much, because I have to prepare for Kentucky.
So anything that goes out of an inch, it will need shifting on Friday, rather than Thursday.
Now, the other thing that I need,
That's Friday, Friday.
Sure, anything like that I want done.
Any dots and ends I said, just put them on Friday, okay?
He's here anyway, isn't he?
Well, anyway.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I was supposed to do a lot of radio response.
I, uh... Well, what about it?
What have you got going on?
Yeah, well, I...
They better do it on Friday at the present time.
The way the men's pilot up here.
The farm radio will have to get over here.
They should have it done.

NARA Description

On October 25, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:30 pm to 2:32 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 372-030 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 372-30

Date: October 25, 1972
Time: 2:30 pm - 2:32 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 32-38]

Also recorded on October 25, 1972

  • 032-038 2:30 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone from 2:30 pm to 2:32 pm.
  • 372-031 2:50 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:50 pm to 2:53 pm.
  • 032-039 2:53 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:53 pm and 3:03 pm.
  • 372-032 2:53 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:53 pm and 3:03 pm.
  • 372-033 2:53 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:53 pm and 3:03 pm.
  • 032-040 3:03 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone from 3:03 pm to 3:04 pm.
  • 372-034 3:03 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:03 pm to 3:04 pm.
  • 032-041 3:04 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:04 pm and 3:05 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 372-030, October 25, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/372-030 (accessed October 9, 2026).