Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 661 › Conversation 661-015

Butterfield & United States Secret Service agents

Monday, January 31, 1972 · 6:00 PM–11:59 PM ET · Oval Office · 1 min

ParticipantsButterfield, Alexander P.; United States Secret Service agentsConversation661-015 on Tape 661 (tape position 04:32:41–04:33:43)StartMonday, January 31, 1972 at 6:00 PMEndMonday, January 31, 1972 at 11:59 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 661-015 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417180685 ↗

AI Summary

Alexander P. Butterfield met with Secret Service agents in the Oval Office to discuss administrative or logistical details regarding presidential scheduling. The recorded segment consists primarily of room noise and unintelligible background conversation, providing no substantive record of dialogue or specific decision-making. Consequently, the interaction remains historically opaque, yielding no discernible developments or action items.

Audio

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NARA Description

On January 31, 1972, Alexander P. Butterfield and United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 6:00 pm and 11:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 661-015 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 661-15

Date: January 31, 1972
Time: Unknown between 6:06 pm and 11:59 pm
Location: Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield and unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

     Alexander P. Butterfield’s schedule

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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 08/05/2022.]
[Unintelligible]
[661-015-w001]
[Duration: 58s]

[This portion of the tape is mostly room noise with some muffled background conversation.]

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The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.

Transcript (AI-generated)

No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The recording contains mostly room noise, microphone movement, handling of objects, footsteps, and muffled unintelligible background sounds, with no decipherable speech.

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  • 661-013 6:00 PM · 54 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 6:00 pm and 6:06 pm.
  • 661-014 6:00 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 6:00 pm and 6:06 pm.
  • 020-010 6:06 PM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:06 pm and 7:26 pm.
  • 020-011 7:26 PM · 54 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 7:26 pm to 7:27 pm.
  • 020-012 7:44 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 7:44 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 661-015, January 31, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417180685). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/661-015 (accessed November 2, 2026).