{"conversationCode":"372-030","tapeNumber":372,"conversationNumber":30,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-372-030","startDateTime":"1972-10-25T18:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-25T18:32:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Oct-1972","startTime":"2:30 PM","endDate":"25-Oct-1972","endTime":"2:32 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","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.","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. 372-30\n\nDate: October 25, 1972\nTime: 2:30 pm - 2:32 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n[See Conversation No. 32-38]","filename":["372-030.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"372-029","nextCode":"372-031","transcript":[{"start":0.71,"end":1.03,"text":"Hello."},{"start":2.77,"end":5.86,"text":"Alex, do you have a farm speed shift?"},{"start":7.5,"end":14.61,"text":"Well, you'll have to jack him up on that, because I've forgotten how to do it."},{"start":16.11,"end":21.74,"text":"But on Thursday, I can't do it too much, because I have to prepare for Kentucky."},{"start":21.76,"end":26.41,"text":"So anything that goes out of an inch, it will need shifting on Friday, rather than Thursday."},{"start":26.43,"end":27.27,"text":"Now, the other thing that I need,"},{"start":33.8,"end":47.78,"text":"That's Friday, Friday."},{"start":47.8,"end":49.68,"text":"Sure, anything like that I want done."},{"start":50.36,"end":54.27,"text":"Any dots and ends I said, just put them on Friday, okay?"},{"start":54.29,"end":61.16,"text":"He's here anyway, isn't he?"},{"start":61.18,"end":61.44,"text":"Well, anyway."},{"start":68.27,"end":97.42,"text":"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."},{"start":101.15,"end":107.74,"text":"I was supposed to do a lot of radio response."},{"start":108.52,"end":116.91,"text":"I, uh... Well, what about it?"},{"start":116.93,"end":120.38,"text":"What have you got going on?"},{"start":120.39,"end":120.92,"text":"Yeah, well, I..."},{"start":120.94,"end":123.52,"text":"They better do it on Friday at the present time."},{"start":123.54,"end":124.2,"text":"The way the men's pilot up here."},{"start":126.97,"end":129.31,"text":"The farm radio will have to get over here."},{"start":129.33,"end":130.09,"text":"They should have it done."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"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.","topics":["Scheduling","Presidential travel","Administrative logistics","Media relations","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T17:19:33.279Z"},"topicSlugs":["scheduling","presidential-travel","administrative-logistics","media-relations","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":173,"audioFiles":[{"file":"372-030.mp3","bytes":4153468,"durationSec":172.99,"bitrate":192082,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:44.875Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:28.663Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/372-030.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/372-030","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/372/conversation-372-030","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}