{"conversationCode":"657-002","tapeNumber":657,"conversationNumber":2,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-657-002","startDateTime":"1972-01-26T23:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-27T04:59:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Jan-1972","startTime":"6:17 PM","endDate":"26-Jan-1972","endTime":"11:59 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Butterfield, Alexander P.; [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On January 26, 1972, Alexander P. Butterfield and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 6:17 pm and 11:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 657-002 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. 657-2\n\nDate: January 26, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 6:17 pm and 11:59 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nAlexander P. Butterfield me with unknown people.\n\n     [Unintelligible]\n\n     The President’s location\n\n     [Unintelligible]\n\nButterfield and the unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.","filename":["657a.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:11:57","tapeEnd":"01:13:11","participantsList":["Butterfield, Alexander P.","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"657-001","nextCode":"658-001","tapeTranscriptFile":"657a.mp3","transcript":[{"start":4352.17,"end":4352.78,"text":"President, you are president."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":4333,"end":4376.25,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"Alexander P. Butterfield met with unidentified individuals in the Oval Office to discuss the President's schedule and physical location. Due to the unintelligible nature of the recording, no specific administrative decisions or substantive developments can be confirmed. The brief interaction serves primarily as an administrative record of movement logistics regarding the President's presence.","topics":["Presidential schedule","White House logistics","Alexander P. Butterfield","Oval Office operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T02:01:03.492Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-schedule","white-house-logistics","alexander-p-butterfield","oval-office-operations"],"audioDurationSec":74,"audioFiles":[{"file":"657a.mp3","bytes":114148622,"durationSec":4756.13,"bitrate":192002,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:54.663Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/657a.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/657-002","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/657/conversation-657-002","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}