{"conversationCode":"634-010","tapeNumber":634,"conversationNumber":10,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-634-010","startDateTime":"1971-12-09T20:36:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-09T20:57:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Dec-1971","startTime":"3:36 PM","endDate":"9-Dec-1971","endTime":"3:57 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On December 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:36 pm and 3:57 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 634-010 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. 634-10\n\nDate: December 9, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:36 and 3:57 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Manolo Sanchez.\n\n     Judgeship announcement\n\n     Letter or bill signing\n\nButterfield and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:57 pm.","filename":["634-010.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:08:38","tapeEnd":"01:22:10","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P.","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"634-009","nextCode":"634-011","transcript":[{"start":0.3,"end":10.31,"text":"There's a judge that they want to announce."},{"start":10.45,"end":20.24,"text":"I'm just going to go ahead and announce it."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Manolo Sanchez to coordinate the timing and protocol for an upcoming federal judgeship announcement. The President confirmed his intention to proceed with the announcement and attended to administrative tasks, including the signing of a letter or bill. The brief session concluded with the departure of Butterfield and Sanchez after these procedural matters were addressed.","topics":["Judicial appointments","White House administration","Presidential scheduling","Document signing"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T01:28:00.550Z"},"topicSlugs":["judicial-appointments","white-house-administration","presidential-scheduling","document-signing"],"audioDurationSec":28,"audioFiles":[{"file":"634-010.mp3","bytes":1133501,"durationSec":28.19,"bitrate":321632,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:54.362Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/634-010.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/634-010","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/634/conversation-634-010","catalogNaId":417180289,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417180289","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}