{"conversationCode":"264-002","tapeNumber":264,"conversationNumber":2,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-264-002","startDateTime":"1971-07-21T14:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-21T14:21:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Jul-1971","startTime":"10:05 AM","endDate":"21-Jul-1971","endTime":"10:21 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On July 21, 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 10:05 am and 10:21 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 264-002 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. 264-002\n\nDate: July 21, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 10:05 am and 10:21 am\nLocation: Old Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with Manolo Sanchez.\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 04/30/2019.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[264-002-w001]\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n[Duration: 15s]\n\n     Watch\n         -Dead battery\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nSanchez left at an unknown time before 10:21 am.","filename":["264-002.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:10:09","tapeEnd":"00:13:29","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"264-001","nextCode":"264-003","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":4.79,"text":"I know this watch, uh, you know, it has a battery in here, and it's stopped."},{"start":4.81,"end":4.93,"text":"Is it?"},{"start":4.95,"end":14.63,"text":"The battery."},{"start":14.65,"end":14.83,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":14.85,"end":15.05,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his personal aide, Manolo Sanchez, to discuss the maintenance of a timepiece. The brief interaction focused on the fact that the President's watch had stopped functioning due to a dead battery. No significant policy or administrative decisions were made during this exchange.","topics":["White House staff","Presidential routine","Manolo Sanchez","personal items"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:24:30.420Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-staff","presidential-routine","manolo-sanchez","personal-items"],"audioDurationSec":15,"audioFiles":[{"file":"264-002.mp3","bytes":605832,"durationSec":15,"bitrate":323067,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.007Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:13.350Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/264-002.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/264-002","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/264/conversation-264-002","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}