{"conversationCode":"678-005","tapeNumber":678,"conversationNumber":5,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-678-005","startDateTime":"1972-03-06T22:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-06T22:10:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Mar-1972","startTime":"5:05 PM","endDate":"6-Mar-1972","endTime":"5:10 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On March 6, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:05 pm to 5:10 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 678-005 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. 678-5\n\nDate: March 6, 1972\nTime: 5:05 pm - 5:10 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n     Signing documents\n\n     Reunions\n         -World War II\n               -SEAT and Quonset\n                     -New York\n                          -Paul Williams\n                     -Captain Peter Boyle\n                     -Ottumwa\n               -Duke Law School\n         -Carl Fleps\n\nButterfield left at 5:10 pm.","filename":["678a.mp3","678b.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:07:00","tapeEnd":"02:15:13","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"678-004","nextCode":"678-006","tapeTranscriptFile":"678a.mp3,678b.mp3","transcript":[{"start":7764.79,"end":7765.13,"text":"Let's go."},{"start":7810.77,"end":7818.86,"text":"On that old, uh, baby thing, I want you to please, uh, you just mentioned, uh, two of us."},{"start":7819.98,"end":7821.12,"text":"I really can't stand it."},{"start":7827.99,"end":7832.49,"text":"people who were in the Badger up here in New York, you know."},{"start":7832.51,"end":7833.19,"text":"You know who that was?"},{"start":7833.27,"end":7836.51,"text":"You know who he had his name on there?"},{"start":7836.53,"end":7836.87,"text":"Paul Williams."},{"start":7837.03,"end":7837.53,"text":"Paul Williams."},{"start":7837.95,"end":7841.69,"text":"He's got a dozen of those characters."},{"start":7842.77,"end":7850.42,"text":"And then some of them were Catt and Peter Boyle, who were simply there to play the best."},{"start":7854.45,"end":7879.49,"text":"Now, we were gonna, we were really just trying to get..."},{"start":7883.17,"end":7892.45,"text":"What, what would you, do you particularly want the scatling in first on the law school class students in June?"},{"start":7892.57,"end":7894.35,"text":"I told you, I told you."},{"start":7894.39,"end":7897.42,"text":"Because Fletcher would like a little more time."},{"start":7897.44,"end":7900.24,"text":"He said, couldn't we have the law school finish first?"},{"start":7900.3,"end":7900.72,"text":"Sure, sure."},{"start":7900.76,"end":7904.3,"text":"Yeah, the law school, the scatling."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":7707.875,"end":8074.625,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"medium","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met to coordinate the scheduling and logistics of upcoming personal reunions. The conversation focused on organizing gatherings for the President's World War II service associates and his Duke Law School classmates. Nixon decided to prioritize the law school class reunion for June at the request of an associate, effectively pushing back other planned events.","topics":["reunions","scheduling","World War II","Duke Law School","logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T02:29:13.311Z"},"topicSlugs":["reunions","scheduling","world-war-ii","duke-law-school","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":493,"audioFiles":[{"file":"678a.mp3","bytes":175927796,"durationSec":7330.26,"bitrate":192001,"missing":false},{"file":"678b.mp3","bytes":172945448,"durationSec":7205.99,"bitrate":192001,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:54.978Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/678a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/678b.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/678-005","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/678/conversation-678-005","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}