{"conversationCode":"694-005","tapeNumber":694,"conversationNumber":5,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-694-005","startDateTime":"1972-03-27T21:57:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-27T22:01:00.000Z","startDate":"27-Mar-1972","startTime":"4:57 PM","endDate":"27-Mar-1972","endTime":"5:01 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On March 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:57 pm and 5:01 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 694-005 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. 694-5\n\nDate: March 27, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 4:57 pm and 5:01 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n     The President's schedule\n          -Elliot L. Richardson\n                -Unknown meeting [forthcoming Republican Congressional leadership meeting]\n          -George P. Shultz\n                -Pay Board\n\nButterfield left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.","filename":["694a.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:43:55","tapeEnd":"01:46:47","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"694-004","nextCode":"694-006","tapeTranscriptFile":"694a.mp3","transcript":[{"start":6241.29,"end":6245.03,"text":"It will be a few minutes."},{"start":6245.11,"end":6248.39,"text":"We're meeting in the east room now."},{"start":6248.57,"end":6249.87,"text":"You didn't want this."},{"start":6250.39,"end":6250.81,"text":"No, I didn't."},{"start":6262.72,"end":6266.99,"text":"Elliot, to sit in and participate in that, they should bring him out."},{"start":6268.77,"end":6277.07,"text":"He'll have objections to that."},{"start":6277.09,"end":6277.64,"text":"Oh, I don't care."},{"start":6278.84,"end":6279.74,"text":"That's fine."},{"start":6279.8,"end":6279.92,"text":"Sure."},{"start":6279.98,"end":6280.38,"text":"Right here."},{"start":6297.87,"end":6301.71,"text":"Look, uh, since that's something so much better, what's the other one?"},{"start":6301.73,"end":6302.35,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":6302.37,"end":6303.15,"text":"Show us the other one."},{"start":6303.45,"end":6311.12,"text":"Well, after a short sentence, just a quick little minute, probably about nine minutes."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":6240.625,"end":6434.125,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met to coordinate the President's upcoming schedule, specifically regarding meetings involving Elliot Richardson and George Shultz. They discussed whether Richardson should participate in a scheduled Republican Congressional leadership gathering, with Nixon deciding to proceed despite expected objections. The pair also briefly reviewed the timing and logistics of a subsequent nine-minute agenda item.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","Elliot Richardson","George Shultz","Republican Congressional leadership","White House administration"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T02:45:37.950Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","elliot-richardson","george-shultz","republican-congressional-leadership","white-house-administration"],"audioDurationSec":172,"audioFiles":[{"file":"694a.mp3","bytes":176154748,"durationSec":7339.72,"bitrate":192001,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:54.978Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:44:19.136Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/694a.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/694-005","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/694/conversation-694-005","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}