{"conversationCode":"458-006","tapeNumber":458,"conversationNumber":6,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-458-006","startDateTime":"1971-02-25T21:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-02-25T21:07:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Feb-1971","startTime":"4:05 PM","endDate":"25-Feb-1971","endTime":"4:07 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On February 25, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:05 pm and 4:07 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 458-006 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 458-006\nDate: February 25, 1971\nTime: 4:05 pm - unknown before 4:07 pm\nPage | 6\nWhite House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973\nRichard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\nLocation: Oval Office\nThe President met with Alexander P. Butterfield\nThe President’s schedule\n-Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.\n-J. M. Menefee\nButterfield left at an unknown time before 4:07 pm","filename":["458-006.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:20:06","tapeEnd":"01:20:48","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"458-005","nextCode":"458-007","transcript":[{"start":0.54,"end":18.45,"text":"Just move ahead with Wagner and Menifee."},{"start":18.47,"end":18.77,"text":"That must be..."},{"start":18.79,"end":19.19,"text":"There's ten minutes."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Alexander P. Butterfield to finalize arrangements for an upcoming meeting with Representative Joe D. Waggonner, Jr. and J. M. Menefee. The President instructed Butterfield to proceed with the scheduling of these individuals. This brief discussion focused exclusively on coordinating the logistics of the President’s official calendar.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.","J. M. Menefee","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T21:04:36.723Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","joe-d-waggonner-jr","j-m-menefee","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":37,"audioFiles":[{"file":"458-006.mp3","bytes":1484607,"durationSec":36.97,"bitrate":321257,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:47.662Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/458-006.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/458-006","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/458/conversation-458-006","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}