Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 524 › Conversation 524-010
Bull & Butterfield on White House taping system and Oval Office
Thursday, June 17, 1971 · 3:37 PM–5:15 PM ET · Oval Office · 47 sec
AI Summary
Stephen B. Bull and Alexander P. Butterfield meet in the Oval Office to discuss the operational status and visual output of the White House taping system. The participants compare recording quality settings and deliberate on the administrative management of the equipment. Their brief exchange concludes with an acknowledgement of the system's active recording capacity.
- White House taping system
- Oval Office
- recording technology
- administrative operations
- surveillance
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NARA Description
On June 17, 1971, Stephen B. Bull and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:37 pm and 5:15 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 524-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 524-10
Date: June 17, 1971
Time: Unknown between 3:37 pm and 5:15 pm
Location: Oval Office
Stephen B. Bull and Alexander P. Butterfield met.
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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 01/14/2020.]
[Unintelligible]
[524-010-w001]
[Duration: 46s]
Process [?]
-Normal
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The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.Also recorded on June 17, 1971
- 005-109 2:22 PM · 14 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 2:22 pm to 2:37 pm.
- 261-014 2:22 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:22 pm to 2:37 pm.
- 005-110 2:41 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 2:41 pm.
- 524-026 2:41 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at 2:41 pm.
- 524-027 2:42 PM · 53 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, Charles W. Colson, Clark MacGregor, Barry M. Goldwater, White House photographer, Henry A. Kissinger, Manolo Sanchez, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:42 pm to 3:33 pm.
- 524-028 3:33 PM · 35 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:33 pm and 3:37 pm.
- 063-001 5:12 PM — Unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 5:12 pm on June 17, 1971 and 10:05 am on June 28, 1971.
- 525-001 5:15 PM · 55 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, Henry A. Kissinger, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Marjorie P. Acker met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:15 pm to 6:10 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 524-010, June 17, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/524-010 (accessed October 23, 2026).