{"conversationCode":"501-021","tapeNumber":501,"conversationNumber":21,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-501-021","startDateTime":"1971-05-19T19:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-19T19:50:00.000Z","startDate":"19-May-1971","startTime":"3:45 PM","endDate":"19-May-1971","endTime":"3:50 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On May 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:45 pm and 3:50 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 501-021 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. 501-21\n\nDate: May 19, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:45 pm and 3:50 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n      President's schedule\n\nButterfield left at an unknown time before 3:50 pm.","filename":["501-021.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:24:19","tapeEnd":"04:24:35","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"501-020","nextCode":"501-022","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.52,"text":"Threatening to be out of jail."},{"start":2.54,"end":4.22,"text":"That's fine."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield held a brief meeting in the Oval Office to coordinate administrative matters regarding the President’s upcoming schedule. The discussion touched upon sensitive legal or political concerns alluded to in the cryptic reference to potential jail time. No formal policy decisions were finalized during this exchange, which primarily served to manage the President's immediate operational agenda.","topics":["Presidential schedule","White House administration","Legal concerns","Operational management"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:23:30.735Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-schedule","white-house-administration","legal-concerns","operational-management"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"501-021.mp3","bytes":173244,"durationSec":4.2,"bitrate":330322,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:49.683Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/501-021.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/501-021","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/501/conversation-501-021","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}