Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 28 › Conversation 028-004
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Charles W. Colson
Thursday, July 27, 1972 · 4:36 PM–4:39 PM ET · White House Telephone · 8 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon initiates a brief telephone communication to coordinate the scheduling of an unidentified meeting and requests a follow-up call to special counsel Charles W. Colson. The exchange serves as a logistical directive for managing the President's immediate agenda. No substantive policy discussions are captured in this fragment, as the dialogue focuses exclusively on administrative arrangements.
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NARA Description
On July 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:36 pm and 4:39 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 028-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 28-4
Date: July 27, 1972
Time: Unknown between 4:36 pm and 4:39 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
The President conferred with an unknown person.
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[End of conferral]
Request for a call to Charles W. ColsonAlso recorded on July 27, 1972
- 351-004 2:12 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:12 pm and 2:59 pm.
- 755-001 3:03 PM · 1 hr 15 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Patrick J. Buchanan, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, Herbert G. Klein, Peter Lisagor, Robert D. Novak, Sarah McLendon, Helen A. Thomas, Ronald L. Ziegler, unknown person(s), White House operator, and Morgan Wilson met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:03 pm and 4:36 pm.
- 351-006 4:38 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, Charles W. Colson, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:38 pm to 4:42 pm.
- 028-005 4:39 PM · 35 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 4:39 pm to 4:40 pm.
- 028-006 4:40 PM · 10 sec — The recording device engaged on an unknown date, sometime between 4:40 pm on July 27, 1972 and 8:33 am on July 28, 1972, but the conversation appears to be blank.
- 351-007 4:42 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:42 pm to 4:46 pm.
- 351-008 4:46 PM · 10 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:46 pm to 4:56 pm.
- 351-009 4:57 PM · 19 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, Kenneth W. Clawson, John A. Scali, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:57 pm to 5:50 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 028-004, July 27, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/028-004 (accessed October 1, 2026).