{"conversationCode":"646-001","tapeNumber":646,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-646-001","startDateTime":"1972-01-12T21:02:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-12T21:04:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Jan-1972","startTime":"4:02 PM","endDate":"12-Jan-1972","endTime":"4:04 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On January 12, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:02 pm and 4:04 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 646-001 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 646-1\n\nDate: January 12, 1972\nTime: 4:02 pm - unknown before 4:04 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Rose Mary Woods and Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n     Letter\n\n     Speech draft\n          -West Wing\n\nButterfield left at an unknown time before 4:03 pm.\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal Returnable]\n[Duration: 32s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nStephen B. Bull entered and Woods left at 4:03 pm.\n\n     The President’s schedule\n          -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew\n          -Unknown general\n               -Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]\n          -George W. Romney\n\nBull left at an unknown time before 4:04 pm.","filename":["646a.mp3","646b.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:01:23","tapeEnd":"00:02:31","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary","Butterfield, Alexander P.","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"645-007","nextCode":"646-002","tapeTranscriptFile":"646a.mp3,646b.mp3","transcript":[{"start":99.05,"end":103.83,"text":"Say, Rose, I wondered if you would pick up."},{"start":104.03,"end":105.46,"text":"There was a big speech at your office."},{"start":106.06,"end":107,"text":"It was a job."},{"start":107.04,"end":109.95,"text":"Go back tomorrow."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":59.125,"end":129,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Rose Mary Woods and Alexander P. Butterfield to discuss administrative matters, including the handling of a specific letter and a speech draft. Following Butterfield’s departure, Stephen B. Bull joined the President to review scheduling arrangements regarding meetings with Vice President Spiro Agnew, a Joint Chiefs of Staff representative, and George Romney. The brief session focused on managing the President's immediate office workflows and upcoming appointments.","topics":["White House administration","Presidential scheduling","Speechwriting","Spiro Agnew","George Romney","Joint Chiefs of Staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T01:48:13.078Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-administration","presidential-scheduling","speechwriting","spiro-agnew","george-romney","joint-chiefs-of-staff"],"audioDurationSec":68,"audioFiles":[{"file":"646a.mp3","bytes":177513324,"durationSec":7396.33,"bitrate":192001,"missing":false},{"file":"646b.mp3","bytes":43944018,"durationSec":1830.94,"bitrate":192006,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:54.662Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/646a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/646b.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/646-001","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/646/conversation-646-001","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}