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Nixon & Butterfield on Second Term Planning

Monday, December 11, 1972 · 2:30 PM–2:35 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 3 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.Conversation385-001 on Tape 385StartMonday, December 11, 1972 at 2:30 PMEndMonday, December 11, 1972 at 2:35 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 385-001 ↗

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President Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met to review and refine the President's upcoming scheduling commitments and logistical arrangements. The discussion focused on coordinating various high-profile meetings, including appointments with business leaders and media figures, as well as managing the President's personal health checkup at Bethesda. Additionally, they addressed the timing for a meeting with Spanish-speaking administration officials regarding the second-term agenda.

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All right.

That's fine.

Then after that, of course, Pope Louis and this fellow Jack Kaufman and Michael Beale came back from the Soviet Union.

They couldn't find that out.

They were using the Soviet Union.

Figured that's what it is.

Well, that's of course.

So that's chapter five of the book.

I don't know if you've ever done that.

So, well, come on, change your version of that.

Well, that'll be it for now.

All questions on that?

I've got a chat.

I'll just figure it out.

Wednesday, 3, Thursday, we're proposing new Scott Gunner, and I'm going to talk to you before that.

And, uh, Charles, uh, uh, Evan Strauss has passed away.

The only other thing was next week they proposed that the Spanish speaking

Oh I don't mind.

That's all right.

But I'll be gone then.

What does that mean?

It's funny.

It's too late.

I may leave when I need to.

I better check.

I'll see the house.

All right.

NARA Description

On December 11, 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 2:35 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 385-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 385-1

Date: December 11, 1972
Time: 2:30 pm - 2:35 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

       The President’s schedule
              -Meeting with J. Willard Marriott
                     -1973 Inauguration license plate
              -Meeting with Robert O. Anderson of Atlantic-Richfield
                     -Presentation
                             -Presidential signature notes
              -Meeting with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis, John H. Kauffmann, and Michael J.
               O’Neill
                     -Lewis’s and Kauffmann’s trip to the Soviet Union
                     -Duration
              -Timing
              -Meeting with Hugh Scott
              -Camp David
              -Meeting with Adm. Lewis L. Strauss
              -December 15, 1972
                     -Bethesda
                             -Physical examination
              -Meeting with Spanish speaking administration officials
                     -Second term
                     -Romana A. Banuelos
                     -Philip V. Sanchez
                     -Timing

Butterfield left at 2:35 pm.
                                             -2-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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385-002 2:35 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 4:05 pm.
385-003 2:35 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 4:05 pm.
385-004 2:35 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 4:05 pm.
385-005 2:35 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 4:05 pm.
385-006 2:35 PM · 19 sec — unknown person(s) and President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 4:05 pm.
385-007 2:35 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 4:05 pm.
385-008 4:05 PM · 46 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:05 pm to 4:55 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 385-001, December 11, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/385-001 (accessed September 28, 2026).