Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 343 › Conversation 343-041

Nixon & Colson on Watergate aftermath

Monday, June 26, 1972 · 2:23 PM–2:24 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 28 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.Conversation343-041 on Tape 343 (tape position 03:37:16–03:37:41)StartMonday, June 26, 1972 at 2:23 PMEndMonday, June 26, 1972 at 2:24 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 343-041 ↗

A 28-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.

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Position in tape: 03:37:16 – 03:37:41

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On June 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:23 pm to 2:24 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 343-041 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 343-41

Date: June 26, 1972

Time: 2:23-2:24 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 26-10]

No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.

  • 343-038 1:25 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 2:23 pm.
  • 343-039 1:25 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 2:23 pm.
  • 343-040 1:25 PM · 15 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 2:23 pm.
  • 026-010 2:23 PM · 42 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 2:23 pm to 2:24 pm.
  • 343-042 2:25 PM · 35 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:25 pm to 3:00 pm.
  • 742-017 3:03 PM — President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:03 pm to 3:05 pm.
  • 103-005 3:05 PM · 32 min — Richard M. Nixon and national veteran leaders, including James Straubel, James Q. Wilson, Raymond L. Bramucci, Joe F. Ramsey, Jr., Claude L. Callegary, Robert W. Nolan, Jerome A. Cohen, H. Lynn Cavin, Brig. Gen. J. Paul Holland, Lt. Gen. Herman Nickerson, Jr., Maj. Gen. James F. Cantwell, Capt. Leslie W. Willig, Thomas E. Morris, Carlos Rodriguez, J. B. Koch, Floyd Henderson, Cooper Holt, William Hauck, Francis Fini, and Donald Harlow, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 3:05 pm and 3:41 pm.
  • 742-018 3:41 PM — President Richard M. Nixon, Herbert Stein, George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman, Caspar W. ("Cap") Weinberger, and Clark MacGregor met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:41 pm and 5:23 pm.

Conversation 343-041, June 26, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/343-041 (accessed November 8, 2026).