{"conversationCode":"500-007","tapeNumber":500,"conversationNumber":7,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-500-007","startDateTime":"1971-05-18T12:02:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-18T13:33:00.000Z","startDate":"18-May-1971","startTime":"8:02 AM","endDate":"18-May-1971","endTime":"9:33 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Butterfield, Alexander P.; [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On May 18, 1971, Alexander P. Butterfield and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:02 am and 9:33 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 500-007 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. 500-7\n\nDate: May 18, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:02 am and 9:33 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nAlexander P. Butterfield and unknown persons met.\n\n     [Unintelligible]\n\n     Installation of unknown item\n\n     Delivery of paper\n\nThe conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 9:33 am.","filename":["500-007.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:13:02","tapeEnd":"00:13:53","participantsList":["Butterfield, Alexander P.","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"500-006","nextCode":"500-008","transcript":[{"start":0.23,"end":2.76,"text":"How does that happen?"},{"start":4.3,"end":22.7,"text":"Is the girl's butt not in front of you?"},{"start":22.72,"end":22.8,"text":"No."},{"start":22.82,"end":23.12,"text":"Here she is."},{"start":23.14,"end":24.2,"text":"You up on the rocks, baby?"},{"start":24.5,"end":28.84,"text":"Oh, because I couldn't pay attention to it."},{"start":28.86,"end":28.92,"text":"Oh."},{"start":28.94,"end":31.91,"text":"Because you're going on and on and on."},{"start":31.93,"end":32.19,"text":"That's right."},{"start":32.21,"end":32.77,"text":"He's going on and on and on."},{"start":32.79,"end":33.5,"text":"I don't know what I'm going to say."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Alexander P. Butterfield and unidentified participants engage in a brief, informal exchange characterized by unclear dialogue regarding a document delivery and the installation of an unknown item. The recording, which consists largely of unintelligible remarks and casual banter, appears to be unrelated to substantive White House business or policy-making. The interaction concludes abruptly without any official decisions or actionable developments recorded.","topics":["Alexander P. Butterfield","Oval Office operations","Office logistics","White House administrative procedures"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:18:53.393Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-p-butterfield","oval-office-operations","office-logistics","white-house-administrative-procedures"],"audioDurationSec":34,"audioFiles":[{"file":"500-007.mp3","bytes":1345620,"durationSec":33.5,"bitrate":321358,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:49.683Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/500-007.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/500-007","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/500/conversation-500-007","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}