{"conversationCode":"601-024","tapeNumber":601,"conversationNumber":24,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-601-024","startDateTime":"1971-10-25T16:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-25T16:15:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Oct-1971","startTime":"12:10 PM","endDate":"25-Oct-1971","endTime":"12:15 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On October 25, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:10 pm and 12:15 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 601-024 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. 601-24\n\nDate: October 25, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 12:10 pm and 12:15 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n     The President's schedule\n          -John D. Ehrlichman\n          -William P. Rogers\n\nButterfield left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm.","filename":["601-024.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:28:02","tapeEnd":"03:28:43","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"601-023","nextCode":"601-025","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":5.36,"text":"General, the minister of security wants to see him earlier."},{"start":5.38,"end":7.51,"text":"I figured I'd just call at 135 and ask that you be on the line."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Alexander P. Butterfield to coordinate adjustments to his daily schedule involving upcoming meetings with John D. Ehrlichman and Secretary of State William P. Rogers. The discussion focused on logistical rearrangements, specifically addressing a request from the minister of security to move a scheduled appointment to an earlier time. Butterfield was tasked with facilitating these updates to ensure the President's calendar remained synchronized with his senior staff's needs.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","John D. Ehrlichman","William P. Rogers","White House logistics","Alexander Butterfield"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T00:31:21.359Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","john-d-ehrlichman","william-p-rogers","white-house-logistics","alexander-p-butterfield"],"audioDurationSec":14,"audioFiles":[{"file":"601-024.mp3","bytes":552538,"durationSec":13.67,"bitrate":323441,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:51.994Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/601-024.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/601-024","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/601/conversation-601-024","catalogNaId":417179309,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417179309","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}