{"conversationCode":"472-019","tapeNumber":472,"conversationNumber":19,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-472-019","startDateTime":"1971-03-23T21:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-03-23T21:46:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Mar-1971","startTime":"4:45 PM","endDate":"23-Mar-1971","endTime":"4:46 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On March 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:45 pm and 4:46 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 472-019 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. 472-19\n\nDate: March 23, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:45 pm and 4:46 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Alexander P. Butterfield\n\n     One item\n\n     [Unintelligible]\n\nRecording was cut off at an unknown time before 4:46 pm","filename":["472-019.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:44:24","tapeEnd":"03:45:17","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"472-017","nextCode":"472-020","transcript":[{"start":13.26,"end":41.99,"text":"This is one."},{"start":42.02,"end":42.26,"text":"This is one."},{"start":43.42,"end":46.02,"text":"Right here."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield held a brief, one-minute meeting in the Oval Office to address a single, unidentified item. The discussion was unintelligible and concluded abruptly before any recorded action items could be established. Due to the limited duration and lack of audible content, the specific purpose of the consultation remains documented only as a brief administrative interaction.","topics":["Oval Office","Administrative logistics","Alexander P. Butterfield","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T21:31:02.770Z"},"topicSlugs":["oval-office","administrative-logistics","alexander-p-butterfield","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":52,"audioFiles":[{"file":"472-019.mp3","bytes":1257011,"durationSec":52.3,"bitrate":192268,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:48.988Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/472-019.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/472-019","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/472/conversation-472-019","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}