Nixon White House Tapes ›Tape 766 › Conversation 766-004
Butterfield on Leadership and Political assessment
Thursday, August 10, 1972 · 5:07 PM–6:29 PM ET · Oval Office ·2 min
AI Summary
Alexander P. Butterfield met with unidentified individuals in the Oval Office to discuss organizational or political leadership qualities. The exchange was brief and focused on the characterization of a specific figure as a leader. No substantive policy decisions or administrative actions were recorded during this segment of the tape.
- Leadership
- Political assessment
- Oval Office protocol
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NARA Description
On August 10, 1972, Alexander P. Butterfield and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:07 pm and 6:29 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 766-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 766-4
Date: August 10, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:07 pm and 6:29 pm
Location: Oval Office
Alexander P. Butterfield met with an unknown person.
The President’s location
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 6:29 pm.Also recorded on August 10, 1972
- 139-006 1:12 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone at Camp David from 1:12 pm to 1:16 pm.
- 200-024 1:12 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 1:12 pm to 1:16 pm.
- 139-007 4:10 PM · 23 sec — Unknown person(s) and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 4:10 pm on August 10, 1972 and 2:03 pm on August 11, 1972.
- 766-001 4:44 PM · 19 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:44 pm and 4:46 pm.
- 766-002 4:46 PM · 17 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, John D. Ehrlichman, Jim Brown, John L. Wilkes, Stanley S. Scott, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:46 pm to 5:07 pm.
- 107-002 5:07 PM · 1 hr 23 min — President Richard M. Nixon and members of the Cost of Living Council, including George P. Shultz, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Hebert Stein, Peter G. Peterson, Caspar W. ("Cap") Weinberger, Gen. George A. Lincoln, Virginia H. Knauer, Arthur F. Burns, James T. Lynn, Laurence H. Silberman, J. Philip Campbell, James W. McLane, C. Robert Lane, Marvin H. Kosters, William I. ("Bill") Greener, Jr., Joseph Mullaney, Richard B. Cheney, I. David Wheat, Jr., Marina con Neumann Whitman, William Walker, Ronald L. Ziegler, and the White House photographer, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 5:07 pm and 11:59 pm.
- 766-003 6:29 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 6:29 pm and 6:33 pm.
- 766-005 6:33 PM · 8 sec — United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 6:33 pm and 7:10 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 766-004, August 10, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/766-004 (accessed September 18, 2026).