President Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, at the Aspen Lodge during a weekend at Camp David. The interaction served as a brief personal engagement between the President and his long-time aide. As the content of the conversation remains classified or withdrawn, no specific policy or administrative actions were recorded for the historical record.
On October 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 7:00 pm and 7:50 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 218-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 218-2
Date: October 7, 1972
Time: Unknown between 7:00 pm and 7:50 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:50 pm.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.