{"conversationCode":"025-093","tapeNumber":25,"conversationNumber":93,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-025-093","startDateTime":"1972-06-21T00:04:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-06-21T00:21:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Jun-1972","startTime":"8:04 PM","endDate":"20-Jun-1972","endTime":"8:21 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.;","description":"On June 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 8:04 pm to 8:21 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-093 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 25-93\n\nDate: June 20, 1972\nTime: 8:04-8:21 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Charles W. Colson.\n\n[See Conversation No. 344-9]\n\n     Press\n             -Colson's schedule\n\n*****************************************************************\n\n[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and\nreleased 10/31/2017.]\n[Unintelligible]\n[025-093-w001]\n[Duration: 17m 16s]\n\n[This portion of the tape is mostly tape noise with some muffled background conversation.]\n\n*****************************************************************","filename":["025-093.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:43:11","tapeEnd":"04:00:25","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Colson, Charles W."],"prevCode":"025-092","nextCode":"025-094","transcript":[{"start":0.32,"end":9.74,"text":"Hello."},{"start":9.76,"end":16.19,"text":"Yeah, did you divide the ball?"},{"start":16.21,"end":16.31,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":16.33,"end":16.43,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":16.45,"end":16.55,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":16.57,"end":16.68,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":16.7,"end":17.2,"text":"Yeah, let's get the ball."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Charles Colson discuss administrative logistics regarding a specific task, cryptically referred to as dividing and retrieving \"the ball.\" While the conversation remains highly informal and lacks explicit policy context, it serves as a brief check-in regarding ongoing operations. The exchange indicates a sense of urgency in securing or managing these materials.","topics":["White House operations","Executive communication","Task management"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:10:54.093Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","executive-communication","task-management"],"audioDurationSec":1036,"audioFiles":[{"file":"025-093.mp3","bytes":24856240,"durationSec":1035.61,"bitrate":192012,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.842Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/025-093.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/025-093","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/25/conversation-025-093","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}