President Richard Nixon met with his longtime valet, Manolo Sanchez, at the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David. The conversation, which lasted 34 seconds and was subsequently withdrawn from public record, involved personal matters between the President and his personal staff member. No policy decisions or administrative actions were documented in the surviving record of this encounter.
On September 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 1:53 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 211-020 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 211-20
Date: September 17, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:00 pm and 1:53 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:53 pm.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.