Charles W. Colson contacted Gerald L. Warren to coordinate the administration's public narrative regarding President Nixon’s work ethic on New Year’s Day. Colson emphasized the need to highlight that the President arrived at the office by 7:30 a.m. to focus on inaugural preparations, congressional messages, and staff meetings. Additionally, they clarified that the President’s limited television viewing was specifically to observe First Lady Pat Nixon in the Rose Bowl parade, while also briefly noting that the status of Henry Kissinger’s return from Paris remained unconfirmed.
On January 1, 1973, Charles W. Colson, White House operator, and Gerald L. Warren talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 12:38 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 035-047 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 35-47
Date: January 1, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:20 am and 12:38 pm
Location: White House Telephone
Charles W. Colson talked with the White House operator.
Request for a call to Gerald L. Warren
Colson talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 12:38 pm.
Request to speak with Warren
Colson talked with Warren at unknown time between 11:20 am and 12:38 pm.
Warren’s forthcoming press conference
-The President's schedule
-Work on New Year’s Day
-Arrival
-Timing
-Compared to White House staff
-Guard
-Keys to office
-Activities
-Reading
-Preparations for 1973 Inauguration
-Telephone conversations and meetings with staff
-Messages to Congress
-Preparations for 1973 Inauguration
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Rose Bowl Parade
-The President’s viewing on television [TV]
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Henry A. Kissinger’s return [from Paris]
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