Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 459 › Conversation 459-005
Finch, Schreiber & Butterfield on Oval Office and White House Meetings
Saturday, February 27, 1971 · 2:58 PM–3:11 PM ET · Oval Office · 2 min
AI Summary
Robert H. Finch hosted Taft Schreiber, Mrs. Taft Schreiber, and Charles W. Butterfield for a meeting in the Oval Office. The recording consists primarily of room noise and muffled background conversation, rendering the specific substance of the meeting unintelligible. Consequently, no policy decisions or action items can be identified from the audio record.
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Transcript (AI-generated)
No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.
NARA Description
On February 27, 1971, Robert H. Finch, Taft Schreiber, Mrs. Taft Schreiber, and Charles W. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:58 pm and 3:11 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 459-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 459-5 Date: February 27, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:58 pm and 3:11 pm Location: Oval Office Robert H. Finch met with Mr. and Mrs. Taft Schreiber and Charles W. Butterfield ****************************************************************************** [Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and released 10/24/2019.] [Unintelligible] [459-005-w001] [Duration: 1m 17s] [This portion of the tape is mostly room noise with some muffled background conversation.] ****************************************************************************** Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 3:11 pm
Also recorded on February 27, 1971
- 459-002 9:35 AM · 2 hr 16 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), Stephen B. Bull, Melvin R. Laird, Richard M. Helms, Joseph J. Sisco, William P. Rogers, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, and Lt. Col. Walter B. Ratliffe met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:35 am to 11:57 am.
- 459-003 11:57 AM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:57 am and 11:58 am.
- 459-004 11:58 AM · 2 hr 57 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, Alexander P. Butterfield, Leonard Garment, Robert H. Finch, Manolo Sanchez, Ronald L. Ziegler, unknown person(s), and James D. ("Don") Hughes met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:58 am to 2:58 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 459-005, February 27, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/459-005 (accessed October 12, 2026).