President Richard M. Nixon met with Alexander P. Butterfield in the Oval Office for a brief, two-minute exchange. The specific content of this discussion remains unavailable due to the lack of an existing transcript and the unintelligible nature of the recording. No definitive policy decisions or significant administrative actions were captured during this brief encounter.
On December 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:09 pm and 11:11 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 639-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 639-7
Date: December 18, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:09 pm and 1:11 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
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[Unintelligible]
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:11 pm.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.