{"conversationCode":"252-029","tapeNumber":252,"conversationNumber":29,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-252-029","startDateTime":"1971-04-29T01:36:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-29T03:10:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Apr-1971","startTime":"9:36 PM","endDate":"28-Apr-1971","endTime":"11:10 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On April 28, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:36 pm and 11:10 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 252-029 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 252-29\n\nDate: April 28, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:36 pm and 11:10 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with Manolo Sanchez\n\n     Noise of demonstrators\n\n     President’s schedule\n\nSanchez left at an unknown time before 11:10 pm","filename":["252-029-splice.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:53:47","tapeEnd":"01:56:50","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"252-028","nextCode":"252-030","tapeTranscriptFile":"252a.mp3,252b.mp3","transcript":[{"start":6957.27,"end":6961.01,"text":"They want you back."},{"start":6961.47,"end":6976.66,"text":"Many people, they think they are not humanists, but compromise a lot for these people to stay decent and for a better situation."},{"start":6977.34,"end":6977.96,"text":"I agree."},{"start":6977.98,"end":6986.79,"text":"But for anyone who wants to have food, who can spend it, give their life to these guys."},{"start":6986.85,"end":6987.09,"text":"Fifteen."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":6827,"end":7010,"startMethod":"llm-alignment","endMethod":"llm-alignment"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","originalFilename":["252a.mp3","252b.mp3"],"spliceSource":{"spliceType":"bigtape","sourceFiles":["252a.mp3"],"cutStart":6825.5,"cutEnd":7011.5,"adjustedStart":6825.5,"adjustedEnd":7011.5,"boundaryMethod":"llm-alignment","confidence":"high","splicedAt":"2026-10-27T04:37:23.909Z"},"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his personal aide, Manolo Sanchez, in the Old Executive Office Building to discuss the President's upcoming schedule. The brief interaction was punctuated by the audible presence of anti-war demonstrators protesting outside the building. No major policy decisions were recorded during this brief administrative check-in.","topics":["Manolo Sanchez","Presidential schedule","demonstrations","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T11:51:29.535Z"},"topicSlugs":["manolo-sanchez","presidential-scheduling","demonstrations","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":186,"audioFiles":[{"file":"252-029-splice.mp3","bytes":2969502,"durationSec":185.99,"bitrate":127726,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-10-27T04:37:23.909Z","transcriptPrev":{"segments":2,"replacedAt":"2026-09-18T14:11:39.303Z"},"audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/252-029-splice.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/252-029","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/252/conversation-252-029","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}