President Nixon met with Alexander P. Butterfield and an unidentified individual in the Oval Office to address administrative or logistical matters. The brief interaction included a seven-second segment of personal conversation that was subsequently withdrawn from public record. No major policy developments occurred during this short meeting, which concluded in under five minutes.
On May 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 1:55 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 494-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 494-7
Date: May 8, 1971
Time: 1:50 pm - unknown before 1:55 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 1:50 pm.
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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 7s ]
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Butterfield and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:55 pm.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.