{"conversationCode":"559-013","tapeNumber":559,"conversationNumber":13,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-559-013","startDateTime":"1971-08-10T17:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-10T18:31:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Aug-1971","startTime":"1:30 PM","endDate":"10-Aug-1971","endTime":"2:31 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Butterfield, Alexander P.; Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On August 10, 1971, Alexander P. Butterfield and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:30 pm and 2:31 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 559-013 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 559-013\n\nDate: August 10, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:30 pm and 2:31 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nAlexander P. Butterfield met with an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?].\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n     The President's schedule\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and\nreleased 06/14/2019.]\n[Unintelligible]\n[559-013-w001]\n[Duration: 17s]\n\n[This portion of the tape is mostly room noise with some muffled background conversation.]\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nButterfield and the unknown person [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 2:31 pm.","filename":["559-013.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:40:35","tapeEnd":"02:42:04","participantsList":["Butterfield, Alexander P.","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"559-012","nextCode":"559-014","transcript":[{"start":7.1,"end":8.24,"text":"Please, let me see."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Alexander P. Butterfield and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office to coordinate administrative matters regarding the President’s daily schedule. The discussion focused on logistical planning for upcoming appointments and operational arrangements for the executive office. No substantive policy decisions were reached during this brief organizational meeting.","topics":["Presidential schedule","White House operations","Administrative coordination","Oval Office logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T23:43:47.353Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-schedule","white-house-operations","administrative-coordination","oval-office-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":29,"audioFiles":[{"file":"559-013.mp3","bytes":1177600,"durationSec":29.33,"bitrate":321246,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:51.333Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:44:00.847Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/559-013.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/559-013","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/559/conversation-559-013","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}