{"conversationCode":"032-072","tapeNumber":32,"conversationNumber":72,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-032-072","startDateTime":"1972-10-27T13:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-27T15:05:00.000Z","startDate":"27-Oct-1972","startTime":"9:55 AM","endDate":"27-Oct-1972","endTime":"11:05 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; White House operator;","description":"On October 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:55 am and 11:05 am. 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Sindlinger\n                     -Call from Howard\n                     -Public reactions\n                         -Vietnam peace settlements\n\nColson talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:55 am and 11:05\nam.\n\n        Request for a call to office\n                                                57\n\n                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF\n\n                                          Tape Subject Log\n                                            (rev. Oct-06)\n\n\nColson talked with an unknown woman at an unknown time between 9:55 am and 11:05 am.\n\n        Call to Louis P. Harris\n             -Meeting with Colson\n                 -Delivery of poll results","filename":["032-072.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Colson, Charles W.","White House operator"],"prevCode":"032-071","nextCode":"032-074","transcript":[{"start":1.18,"end":11.69,"text":"Carlson's office?"},{"start":11.83,"end":12.61,"text":"Give me Dick, please."},{"start":12.63,"end":18.66,"text":"Okay."},{"start":18.68,"end":26.77,"text":"I'll call Semlinger right now and ask him what kind of reactions he was getting last night, what kind of open-ended comments, how he thinks of the piece."},{"start":28.03,"end":30.23,"text":"Announcements are, were the announcements yesterday applying?"},{"start":30.89,"end":31.03,"text":"Mm-hmm."},{"start":31.08,"end":32.08,"text":"All right."},{"start":32.1,"end":37.79,"text":"And put something down and let me get it in first."},{"start":37.83,"end":38.39,"text":"Okay."},{"start":38.51,"end":39.94,"text":"This is Mr. Coulson."},{"start":39.95,"end":40.96,"text":"Could I have my office, please?"},{"start":41.02,"end":44.44,"text":"Surety, sir."},{"start":47.57,"end":48.73,"text":"Mr. Coulson's office."},{"start":48.75,"end":52.88,"text":"Call Harris and ask to tell him."},{"start":52.9,"end":53.02,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":53.04,"end":54.26,"text":"See if we can bring him in."},{"start":54.36,"end":54.46,"text":"Okay."},{"start":54.48,"end":55.36,"text":"He said he would have it at 11."},{"start":55.38,"end":55.82,"text":"Okay."},{"start":55.84,"end":55.94,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Charles Colson coordinated efforts to gauge public sentiment regarding potential Vietnam peace negotiations through various polling contacts. Colson engaged with Dick Howard to analyze recent poll data from Albert Sindlinger while simultaneously arranging a briefing with pollster Louis Harris. These actions underscore the administration's focus on monitoring domestic reactions to foreign policy developments in the final stages of the 1972 election campaign.","topics":["1972 Presidential Election","Vietnam Peace Negotiations","Public Opinion Polling","Louis Harris","Albert Sindlinger"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:06:44.448Z"},"topicSlugs":["1972-presidential-election","vietnam-peace-negotiations","public-opinion-polling","louis-harris","albert-sindlinger"],"audioDurationSec":61,"audioFiles":[{"file":"032-072.mp3","bytes":1473932,"durationSec":61.35,"bitrate":192210,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/032-072.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-072","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/32/conversation-032-072","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). 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