Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 33 › Conversation 033-063

Sanchez phone call on White House Mess and Food service

Wednesday, November 8, 1972 · 1:35 AM–3:00 AM ET · White House Telephone · 1 min

ParticipantsSanchez, Manolo; White House operator; [Unknown person(s)]Conversation033-063 on Tape 33StartWednesday, November 8, 1972 at 1:35 AMEndWednesday, November 8, 1972 at 3:00 AMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 033-063 ↗

Manolo Sanchez contacted the White House mess to coordinate an urgent food delivery for President Nixon and his staff. The order consisted of three breakfast trays featuring fried eggs, bacon, and toast. These meals were to be delivered immediately to the President's office in the Executive Office Building for the President, H.R. Haldeman, and Charles Colson.

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Please eh, stop next please.
Thank you.
Stop next.
Eh, who is speaking?
Richard Villanueva.
Right, it's me Monroe.
Take 1 to 3-3's.
What's this, sir?
Manolo.
Oh, Manolo.
I want three trays.
Three trays?
With fried eggs and bacon and toast.
AOV.
Office for the president as soon as possible.
Yeah, that's fried eggs.
Bacon, toast.
Toast, bacon.
Right.
Yeah, that's three orders, huh?
Yeah, three orders.
Yeah.
As possible.
Yeah.
Serve it here to the president.
Oh, in that EOB?
Yeah.
EOB, huh?
Yeah.
It's the vice president's office, right?
Yeah.
No, no, no.
The president's office.
Ah, president's office.
President's office for Mr. Holder and Mr. Colson, the president.
Couple of fried eggs.
Yeah, fried eggs, bacon.
Toes and toes and bottom.
Uh-huh.
Okay?
All right.
All right.
Good.

On November 8, 1972, Manolo Sanchez, White House operator, and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:35 am and 3:00 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 033-063 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 33-63

Date: November 8, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:35 am and 3:00 am
Location: White House Telephone

Manolo Sanchez talked with the White House operator.

       Request a call to White House mess

Sanchez talked with an unknown man at an unknown time between 1:35 am and 3:00 am

       Breakfast food orders
            -Number
            -Delivery to the President at the Executive Office Building [EOB]
                   -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                   -Charles W. Colson
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

                                                           Conversation No. 33-114 (cont’d)
  • 033-057 1:10 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:10 am and 1:12 am.
  • 033-059 1:12 AM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Nelson A. Rockefeller talked on the telephone from 1:12 am to 1:16 am.
  • 033-060 1:16 AM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:16 am and 1:28 am.
  • 033-061 1:30 AM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:30 am and 1:31 am.
  • 033-062 1:31 AM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Hubert H. Humphrey talked on the telephone from 1:31 am to 1:35 am.
  • 033-064 1:35 AM · 50 sec — Manolo Sanchez, White House operator, and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:35 am and 3:00 am.
  • 033-065 1:35 AM · 36 sec — Charles W. Colson, White House operator, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:35 am and 3:00 am.
  • 388-005 1:59 AM · 24 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:59 am and 2:00 pm.

Conversation 033-063, November 8, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/033-063 (accessed September 28, 2026).