{"conversationCode":"017-003","tapeNumber":17,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-017-003","startDateTime":"1971-12-23T18:26:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-23T19:40:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Dec-1971","startTime":"1:26 PM","endDate":"23-Dec-1971","endTime":"2:40 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Colson, Charles W.; White House operator;","description":"On December 23, 1971, Charles W. Colson and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:26 pm and 2:40 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-003 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 17-3\n\nDate: December 23, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:26 pm and 2:40 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nCharles W. Colson talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 310-17A]\n\n     Call to his office\n\nColson talked with Joan Hall [?].\n\n[See Conversation No. 310-17A]\n\n     Jane F. (Gray) Muskie\n          -Time and Newsweek\n                -\"People\" section of current issue\n                -Feature on Mrs. Muskie in New Hampshire\n                -Delivery of articles by Manolo Sanchez","filename":["017-003.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:01:17","tapeEnd":"00:01:55","participantsList":["Colson, Charles W.","White House operator"],"prevCode":"017-002","nextCode":"017-004","transcript":[{"start":3.37,"end":4.09,"text":"This is Mr. Coulson."},{"start":4.11,"end":4.77,"text":"May I have my office?"},{"start":5.07,"end":8.52,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":12.5,"end":13.59,"text":"Mr. Coulson's office."},{"start":13.61,"end":25.42,"text":"Joan, get me right away the, in the People's section of Time magazine this week and Newsweek, a story on Mrs. Muskie, Jane Muskie, Senator Muskie's wife."},{"start":26.26,"end":26.38,"text":"Okay."},{"start":26.4,"end":28.7,"text":"Clip it right out in New Hampshire."},{"start":29.52,"end":30.75,"text":"Yeah, story about her in New Hampshire."},{"start":31.16,"end":35.01,"text":"clip it right out and bring it in and have Manolo bring it in, please."},{"start":35.03,"end":35.69,"text":"Thanks."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Charles W. Colson contacted his office staff to request immediate retrieval and delivery of specific media coverage regarding Jane F. Muskie. He directed an aide to clip articles from the 'People' sections of current issues of Time and Newsweek that featured Mrs. Muskie in New Hampshire. The materials were to be hand-delivered to Colson by Manolo Sanchez.","topics":["Jane Muskie","Media monitoring","Charles Colson","Newsweek","Time magazine","New Hampshire"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T00:42:00.075Z"},"topicSlugs":["jane-muskie","media-monitoring","charles-colson","newsweek","time-magazine","new-hampshire"],"audioDurationSec":37,"audioFiles":[{"file":"017-003.mp3","bytes":882728,"durationSec":36.7,"bitrate":192397,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.936Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/017-003.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-003","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/17/conversation-017-003","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}