{"conversationCode":"705-004","tapeNumber":705,"conversationNumber":4,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-705-004","startDateTime":"1972-04-10T16:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-10T16:33:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Apr-1972","startTime":"11:30 AM","endDate":"10-Apr-1972","endTime":"11:33 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;","description":"On April 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:30 am to 11:33 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 705-004 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. 705-4\n\nDate: April 10, 1972\nTime: 11:30 am - 11:33 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\fThe President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n     Statement on the death of James F. Byrnes\n          -The President's review\n          -Release to press\n          -Formal statement\nButterfield left at 11:33 am.","filename":["705-004.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:17:31","tapeEnd":"02:20:45","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P."],"prevCode":"705-003","nextCode":"705-005","transcript":[{"start":1.01,"end":6.21,"text":"About to go, this Timmy Burns statement, would you like to look at it first?"},{"start":6.84,"end":8.3,"text":"I got it."},{"start":8.34,"end":11.16,"text":"Well, we told the press about it."},{"start":11.18,"end":13,"text":"This is a formal statement."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Alexander P. Butterfield to review and finalize a formal statement regarding the death of former Supreme Court Justice and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. The discussion focused on the President's personal oversight of the document's language prior to its official release to the press. The meeting concluded once the statement was prepared for dissemination.","topics":["James F. Byrnes","Public Relations","White House Press Office","Presidential Statements"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T02:56:35.385Z"},"topicSlugs":["james-f-byrnes","public-relations","white-house-press-office","presidential-statements"],"audioDurationSec":51,"audioFiles":[{"file":"705-004.mp3","bytes":2059281,"durationSec":51.35,"bitrate":320799,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:55.376Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/705-004.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/705-004","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/705/conversation-705-004","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}