{"conversationCode":"035-096","tapeNumber":35,"conversationNumber":96,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-035-096","startDateTime":"1973-01-05T17:38:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-05T18:02:00.000Z","startDate":"5-Jan-1973","startTime":"12:38 PM","endDate":"5-Jan-1973","endTime":"1:02 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Colson, Charles W.; White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Timmons, William E.;","description":"On January 5, 1973, Charles W. Colson, White House operator, President Richard M. Nixon, and William E. Timmons talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:38 pm and 1:02 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 035-096 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.2","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part II","chronReleaseDate":"2-Dec-2008","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 35-96\n\nDate: January 5, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 12:38 pm – 1:02 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nCharles W. Colson talked with the White House operator.\n\nThe President can be heard in the background.\n\n[See Conversation No. 394-7B]\n\f                                                 -91-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                           Conversation No. 35-96 (cont’d)\n\n       Request for a call to William E. Timmons\n\nColson talked with Timmons at an unknown time between 12:38 pm and 1:02 pm.\n\n       Timmons's schedule\n           -Congressional meeting\n           -Michael J. Mansfield\n           -Congressional meeting\n           -Freshmen Congressmen and bipartisan leadership reception","filename":["035-096.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Colson, Charles W.","White House operator","Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Timmons, William E."],"prevCode":"035-095","nextCode":"035-097","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.05,"text":"Operator."},{"start":3.17,"end":4.04,"text":"Mr. Timmons, please."},{"start":4.2,"end":4.54,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":5.58,"end":23.32,"text":"See, that helps Bill to get... Timmons is on."},{"start":23.34,"end":27.71,"text":"Yes, you should handle that meeting tonight the way you were saying and be present at it."},{"start":28.14,"end":29.01,"text":"I would sit in it."},{"start":29.29,"end":29.53,"text":"Yes."},{"start":29.61,"end":30.91,"text":"How about Mansfield in the morning?"},{"start":30.95,"end":31.79,"text":"Any feel on that?"},{"start":34.64,"end":35.46,"text":"Mansfield in the morning?"},{"start":39.25,"end":39.43,"text":"No."},{"start":39.63,"end":41.07,"text":"Do the one tonight, not the one."},{"start":41.09,"end":41.25,"text":"Okay."},{"start":41.27,"end":45.94,"text":"The cover tonight is they're coming to see me one, and they're going to stay here to go to the reception, the freshman reception."},{"start":45.96,"end":46.58,"text":"That's a good idea."},{"start":46.65,"end":47.13,"text":"Right on."},{"start":47.15,"end":47.69,"text":"Marvelous."},{"start":47.81,"end":48.77,"text":"Thanks."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Charles Colson coordinate with William E. Timmons regarding the strategy for an upcoming congressional meeting and reception. They instruct Timmons to personally attend the evening gathering of freshman congressmen and bipartisan leadership to manage the optics of the event. Additionally, they discuss the status of a meeting with Mike Mansfield, ultimately deciding to prioritize the evening reception over other scheduling concerns.","topics":["Congressional relations","William E. Timmons","Mike Mansfield","Legislative strategy","White House reception"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:49:35.718Z"},"topicSlugs":["congressional-relations","william-e-timmons","mike-mansfield","legislative-strategy","white-house-reception"],"audioDurationSec":55,"audioFiles":[{"file":"035-096.mp3","bytes":1317207,"durationSec":54.73,"bitrate":192527,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.542Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:41.454Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/035-096.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/035-096","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/35/conversation-035-096","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}