Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 25 › Conversation 025-135
Nixon phone call with Colson on John B. Connally and Import quotas
Friday, June 23, 1972 · 2:22 PM–2:34 PM ET · White House Telephone · 38 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon and Charles W. Colson discussed the strategic timing of a forthcoming phone call from Colson to John B. Connally. The conversation focused on providing Connally with advance notice regarding news on import quotas and coordinating the announcement within the current political calendar. They aimed to manage the message as a temporary, controlled situation.
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NARA Description
On June 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 2:22 pm to 2:34 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-135 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 25-135
Date: June 23, 1972
Time: 2:22-2:34 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
[See Conversation No. 343-36A]
Colson's forthcoming call to John B. Connally
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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 11/1/2017.]
[Unintelligible]
[025-135-w001]
[Duration: 29s]
Suggested call from Charles W. Colson to John B. Connally
-Advance notice of quota news
-Calendar
-Temporary situation
*****************************************************************Also recorded on June 23, 1972
- 025-133 1:16 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:16 pm and 1:20 pm.
- 025-134 1:16 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:16 pm and 1:20 pm.
- 343-036 2:20 PM · 23 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Charles W. Colson, White House operator, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:20 pm to 2:45 pm.
- 025-136 2:29 PM · 12 min — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 2:29 pm.
- 741-013 2:56 PM — President Richard M. Nixon, Donald H. Rumsfeld, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Herbert Stein, Edward R. Spiegel, Harry Hogan, Fritz Roland, unknown person(s), and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:56 pm and 3:00 pm.
- 026-001 3:00 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:00 pm and 4:06 pm.
- 026-002 3:00 PM · 20 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:00 pm and 4:07 pm.
- 741-014 3:00 PM — President Richard M. Nixon, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Herbert Stein, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, Edward R. Spiegel, Harry Hogan, Fritz Roland, unknown person(s), John D. Ehrlichman, Robert H. Finch, Manolo Sanchez, and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:00 pm to 4:22 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 025-135, June 23, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/025-135 (accessed September 30, 2026).