{"conversationCode":"694-006","tapeNumber":694,"conversationNumber":6,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-694-006","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 694-006 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. 694-6\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          -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n               -Executive Office Building [EOB]\n          -Meeting with Republican Congressional leadership, March 28, 1972\n               -Legislation\n                      -Welfare reform\n                      -Revenue sharing\n                      -Busing\n                           -Elliot L. Richardson\n               -Economy\n                      -Pay Board\n                           -Herbert Stein's presentation\n                                 -Tone\n               -Length of meeting\n               -Clark MacGregor\n\nButterfield left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.","filename":["694a.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:46:47","tapeEnd":"01:49:12","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"694-005","nextCode":"694-007","tapeTranscriptFile":"694a.mp3","transcript":[{"start":6437.1,"end":6440.61,"text":"Participate in that little ten-minute period."},{"start":6469.79,"end":6475.74,"text":"I don't think we'll have this even now, I think, today."},{"start":6475.78,"end":6475.9,"text":"Okay."},{"start":6477.28,"end":6478.6,"text":"Just have the paper I hired."},{"start":6478.8,"end":6488.6,"text":"Unless today you think it's going to be something positive, or..."},{"start":6488.62,"end":6490.44,"text":"I mean... Let me explain."},{"start":6490.47,"end":6491.21,"text":"I don't want..."},{"start":6491.23,"end":6491.99,"text":"They don't want..."},{"start":6494.25,"end":6503.82,"text":"I don't have to know if it's something that's very positive about me, then fine, but I'm just not going to have to."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":6434.125,"end":6554.625,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Alexander P. Butterfield to coordinate logistical details for an upcoming meeting with Republican Congressional leadership. They discussed the agenda, which included pending legislation on welfare reform, revenue sharing, and busing, as well as the tone of Herbert Stein’s forthcoming economic presentation to the Pay Board. The discussion focused on managing the meeting's duration and ensuring the President was briefed on key policy objectives.","topics":["Congressional leadership","Welfare reform","Revenue sharing","Busing","Economic policy","Pay Board"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T02:45:43.463Z"},"topicSlugs":["congressional-leadership","welfare-reform","revenue-sharing","busing","economic-policy","pay-board"],"audioDurationSec":145,"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":"2026-09-18T08:44:19.137Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/694a.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/694-006","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/694/conversation-694-006","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}