President Nixon held an informal meeting with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, at the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David. While the official record indicates a brief encounter, the entirety of the discussion was withdrawn from the public archive as a personal, returnable item. Consequently, no substantive policy decisions or administrative topics are preserved in the historical record for this interaction.
On September 12, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 9:15 pm and 9:50 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 210-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 210-10
Date: September 12, 1972
Time: Unknown between 9:15 pm and 9:50 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
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[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 29s ]
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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:50 pm.
(rev. Oct-06)No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.