{"conversationCode":"491-007","tapeNumber":491,"conversationNumber":7,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-491-007","startDateTime":"1971-04-28T16:16:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-28T16:35:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Apr-1971","startTime":"12:16 PM","endDate":"28-Apr-1971","endTime":"12:35 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Butterfield, Alexander P.; [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On April 28, 1971, Alexander P. Butterfield and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:16 pm and 12:35 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 491-007 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. 491-7\n\nDate: April 28, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 12:16 pm and 12:35 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nAlexander P. Butterfield and an unknown man met.\n\n     President's location\n           -Photographs\n           -Tricia Nixon\n\nButterfield and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.","filename":["491-007.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:57:27","tapeEnd":"00:58:49","participantsList":["Butterfield, Alexander P.","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"491-006","nextCode":"491-008","transcript":[{"start":1.18,"end":16.78,"text":"It's pretty good."},{"start":16.8,"end":17.16,"text":"Is that all right?"},{"start":17.18,"end":17.28,"text":"Yeah."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Alexander P. Butterfield met with an unidentified individual to facilitate a logistical or administrative task involving the President. The brief discussion centered on the placement of the President for a photography session involving Tricia Nixon. No major policy developments occurred during this interaction, which functioned primarily as a coordination check for White House imagery.","topics":["Alexander P. Butterfield","Tricia Nixon","Photography","White House logistics","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:03:02.567Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-p-butterfield","tricia-nixon","photography","white-house-logistics","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":17,"audioFiles":[{"file":"491-007.mp3","bytes":694648,"durationSec":17.24,"bitrate":322362,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:48.989Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/491-007.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/491-007","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/491/conversation-491-007","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}