{"conversationCode":"534-008","tapeNumber":534,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-534-008","startDateTime":"1971-07-01T16:06:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-01T16:09:00.000Z","startDate":"1-Jul-1971","startTime":"12:06 PM","endDate":"1-Jul-1971","endTime":"12:09 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Pontier, Andrey;","description":"On July 1, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Andrey Pontier met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:06 pm and 12:09 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 534-008 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. 534-8\n\nDate: July 1, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 12:06 pm and 12:09 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with an unknown man [Alexander P. Butterfield?].\n\n     The President's schedule\n          -Sammy Davis, Jr.\n               -Membership commission on the National Advisory Board of Office of\n                      Economic Opportunity\n               -Arrangements for meeting\n\n[Butterfield] left at an unknown time before 12:09 pm","filename":["534-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:19:37","tapeEnd":"03:20:44","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Pontier, Andrey"],"prevCode":"534-007","nextCode":"534-009","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":15.91,"text":"All right."},{"start":29.83,"end":31.32,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with an aide, identified as Alexander P. Butterfield, to coordinate the President's upcoming schedule. The discussion centered on arrangements for a meeting with entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. Specifically, the participants addressed Davis's appointment to the National Advisory Board of the Office of Economic Opportunity.","topics":["Presidential schedule","Sammy Davis Jr.","Office of Economic Opportunity","Alexander P. Butterfield","White House appointments"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T23:14:18.040Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-schedule","sammy-davis-jr","office-of-economic-opportunity","alexander-p-butterfield","white-house-appointments"],"audioDurationSec":39,"audioFiles":[{"file":"534-008.mp3","bytes":1557734,"durationSec":38.8,"bitrate":321183,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:51.011Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/534-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/534-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/534/conversation-534-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}