{"conversationCode":"043-039","tapeNumber":43,"conversationNumber":39,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-043-039","startDateTime":"1973-02-07T17:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-02-07T18:20:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Feb-1973","startTime":"12:45 PM","endDate":"7-Feb-1973","endTime":"1:20 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Colson, Charles W.; White House operator; [Unknown person(s)]; Howard, W. Rick;","description":"On February 7, 1973, Charles W. Colson, White House operator, unknown person(s), and W. Richard Howard talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:45 pm and 1:20 pm. 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Richard Howard\n\nColson talked with Howard.\n\n       Richard Wilson column in Washington Star\n            -Vietnam War\n                  -Leslie C. Arends","filename":["043-039.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Colson, Charles W.","White House operator","[Unknown person(s)]","Howard, W. Rick"],"prevCode":"043-038","nextCode":"043-040","transcript":[{"start":3.22,"end":4,"text":"This is Mr. Colson."},{"start":4.02,"end":4.74,"text":"Could I have my office?"},{"start":4.76,"end":5.66,"text":"Surely, sir."},{"start":5.68,"end":8.33,"text":"Thanks."},{"start":8.35,"end":8.65,"text":"You're welcome."},{"start":8.67,"end":9.13,"text":"It was good."},{"start":9.17,"end":12.37,"text":"It wasn't really any better than a lot of things that have been written."},{"start":12.39,"end":13.33,"text":"Mr. Colson's office."},{"start":13.35,"end":14.43,"text":"Let me have Holly, please."},{"start":14.53,"end":15.94,"text":"She sat down, Mr. Colson."},{"start":15.96,"end":17.06,"text":"Let me have Dick."},{"start":17.08,"end":17.88,"text":"Okay, just a second."},{"start":19.36,"end":23.22,"text":"It's probably the one he happened, you know, Wes Aaron's... Well, it's all right."},{"start":23.24,"end":24.25,"text":"It's a good column."},{"start":24.27,"end":30.07,"text":"It was about two nights ago, I think, or three nights ago."},{"start":36.52,"end":36.94,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":37.28,"end":46.29,"text":"Dick, would you have sent in to me right away in the president's office, and he'll be the Dick Wilson column from either Monday night."},{"start":47.29,"end":49.15,"text":"It would have to be Monday Star."},{"start":49.71,"end":49.99,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":50.47,"end":52.05,"text":"Remember, it was a good column."},{"start":52.07,"end":53.34,"text":"It was Monday Star, right?"},{"start":53.35,"end":55.58,"text":"Yeah, it was a good column on the ending of the war."},{"start":55.6,"end":55.8,"text":"Okay."},{"start":56.08,"end":56.74,"text":"Yep."},{"start":56.78,"end":57.24,"text":"Bring it right in."},{"start":57.46,"end":58,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Charles W. Colson coordinates with his staff and W. 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