Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 6 › Conversation 006-110

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Charles W. Colson

Friday, July 2, 1971 · 6:50 PM–7:05 PM ET · White House Telephone · 5 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation006-110 on Tape 6 (tape position 02:18:37–02:18:43)StartFriday, July 2, 1971 at 6:50 PMEndFriday, July 2, 1971 at 7:05 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 006-110 ↗

President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a call to Special Counsel Charles W. Colson. This communication served as a brief administrative coordination to facilitate direct contact between the President and one of his key political advisors. No further substantive discussion was recorded during this brief exchange.

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No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.

On July 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:50 pm and 7:05 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 006-110 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 6-110

Date: July 2, 1971
Time: Unknown between 6:50 pm and 7:05 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

     Call to Charles W. Colson
  • 260-022 6:29 PM · 3 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 6:29 pm and 6:31 pm.
  • 260-023 6:31 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 6:31 pm to 6:32 pm.
  • 260-024 6:32 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 6:32 pm and 6:36 pm.
  • 260-025 6:35 PM · 17 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, Rose Mary Woods, and John K. Andrews, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 6:35 pm to 6:47 pm.
  • 006-109 6:36 PM · 52 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and John K. Andrews, Jr. talked on the telephone from 6:36 pm to 6:37 pm.
  • 006-111 7:05 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 7:05 pm to 7:08 pm.
  • 006-112 7:08 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:08 pm and 7:13 pm.
  • 006-113 7:13 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 7:13 pm to 7:14 pm.

Conversation 006-110, July 2, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/006-110 (accessed October 6, 2026).