{"conversationCode":"461-001","tapeNumber":461,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-461-001","startDateTime":"1971-03-02T15:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-03-02T15:26:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Mar-1971","startTime":"10:25 AM","endDate":"2-Mar-1971","endTime":"10:26 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On March 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:25 am to 10:26 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 461-001 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. 461-1\n\nDate: March 2, 1971\nTime: 10:25 am - 10:26 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Alexander P. Butterfield\n\n     [Unintelligible]\n\n     President’s schedule\n          -Ronald L. Ziegler\n          -William P. Rogers’ previous telephone call\n                -March 1, 1971 dinner\n          -John N. Mitchell’s press conference\n\nButterfield left at 10:26 am","filename":["461-001.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:01:39","tapeEnd":"00:03:09","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"460-029","nextCode":"461-002","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":29.28,"text":"I was there, but they didn't tell me."},{"start":30.02,"end":42.01,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":47.16,"end":53.31,"text":"Okay, good."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield held a brief administrative meeting to coordinate the President's upcoming schedule and review recent events. They touched upon Secretary of State William P. Rogers' previous phone call regarding a March 1 dinner and discussed Attorney General John N. Mitchell’s recent press conference. Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler was also noted in the context of managing these logistical and media-related items.","topics":["Presidential schedule","William P. Rogers","John N. Mitchell","Ronald L. Ziegler","White House logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T21:08:27.293Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-schedule","william-p-rogers","john-n-mitchell","ronald-l-ziegler","white-house-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":54,"audioFiles":[{"file":"461-001.mp3","bytes":1285850,"durationSec":53.52,"bitrate":192187,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:47.662Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/461-001.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/461-001","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/461/conversation-461-001","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}