{"conversationCode":"705-010","tapeNumber":705,"conversationNumber":10,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-705-010","startDateTime":"1972-04-10T17:23:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-10T17:25:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Apr-1972","startTime":"12:23 PM","endDate":"10-Apr-1972","endTime":"12:25 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On April 10, 1972, 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 12:23 pm and 12:25 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 705-010 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. 705-10\n\nDate: April 10, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:23 pm and 12:25 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Stephen B. Bull and Alexander P. Butterfield.\n\n     The President's schedule\n          -Meeting with directors of American Historical and Cultural Society, Inc.\n               -Photographs\n               -J. Willard (“Bill”) Marriott, Jr.\n               -Purpose of meeting\n                      -Activities of Society\n               -Katherine (Merrill) Swim\n               -Dudley Swim\n               -Photographs\n                      -Gifts\n                      -Background\n                            -Flags\n\nBull and Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:25 pm.","filename":["705-010.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:09:48","tapeEnd":"03:11:38","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Butterfield, Alexander P.","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"705-009","nextCode":"705-011","transcript":[{"start":1.58,"end":3.11,"text":"Okay, we're going to take a picture."},{"start":3.45,"end":4.07,"text":"What is this?"},{"start":4.27,"end":10.39,"text":"It's just essentially a courtesy call."},{"start":11.21,"end":15.09,"text":"I did an individual for this."},{"start":15.17,"end":17.67,"text":"This is Bill ."},{"start":17.99,"end":20.51,"text":"Just a quick thank you."},{"start":20.75,"end":24.99,"text":"Bill may want to spend some minutes telling you what they're doing now."},{"start":25.07,"end":26.49,"text":"And Debbie's one of the widows."},{"start":30.35,"end":35.58,"text":"We'll be giving them individual photographs as a token of openness and kindness."},{"start":35.96,"end":39.22,"text":"That needs to be appropriate for this whole empire."},{"start":39.76,"end":41.38,"text":"Let's see if there's anything else here."},{"start":41.41,"end":43.71,"text":"Yeah, the individual photographs are really important."},{"start":43.73,"end":45.41,"text":"We'll give you your gifts."},{"start":45.43,"end":46.31,"text":"You don't have flags."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Stephen B. Bull to coordinate a brief, ceremonial meeting with the directors of the American Historical and Cultural Society, Inc. The discussion focused on logistical arrangements for the event, specifically the distribution of individual photographs and gifts to attendees, including J. Willard Marriott, Jr. and Katherine Swim. Nixon emphasized the importance of the photography session as a gesture of goodwill and oversaw final preparations for the group's visit.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","American Historical and Cultural Society","J. Willard Marriott, Jr.","Public relations","White House protocol"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T02:57:10.256Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","american-historical-and-cultural-society","j-willard-marriott-jr","public-relations","white-house-protocol"],"audioDurationSec":58,"audioFiles":[{"file":"705-010.mp3","bytes":2333044,"durationSec":58.18,"bitrate":320794,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:55.376Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/705-010.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/705-010","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/705/conversation-705-010","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}