Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 265 › Conversation 265-001

Nixon & Sanchez on Presidential personal affairs

Tuesday, July 27, 1971 · 8:12 PM–11:36 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, ManoloConversation265-001 on Tape 265 (tape position 00:00:30–02:43:23)StartTuesday, July 27, 1971 at 8:12 PMEndTuesday, July 27, 1971 at 11:36 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 265-001 ↗

AI Summary

President Richard Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, in the Old Executive Office Building. The recording is notably brief and contains withdrawn segments, suggesting the discussion involved private personal matters rather than substantive policy deliberations. No significant administrative developments or public actions resulted from this encounter.

Audio

part A, 0:30

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This conversation has not yet been cut into its own clip, so the players above hold the full tape, shared with neighbouring conversations. By the archivists' log it runs from 00:00:30 to 02:43:23 into the tape; their log often drifts a minute or two from the audio, so listen for the subjects in the finding aid.

NARA Description

On July 27, 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 8:12 pm and 11:36 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 265-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 265-1

Date: July 27, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:12 pm and 11:36 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 5s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:36 pm.

Transcript (AI-generated)

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Also recorded on July 27, 1971

  • 007-013 7:42 PM · 21 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:42 pm and 8:07 pm.
  • 007-006 8:05 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 8:05 pm.
  • 007-014 8:07 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 8:07 pm to 8:09 pm.
  • 265-002 8:12 PM — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:12 pm and 11:36 pm.
  • 265-003 8:12 PM — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:12 pm and 11:36 pm.
  • 007-015 8:31 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 8:31 pm to 8:33 pm.
  • 007-016 8:33 PM · 49 sec — United States Secret Service agents and the White House operator talked on the telephone on an unknown date, sometime between 8:33 pm on July 27, 1971 and 9:02 am on July 28, 1971.
  • 265-004 11:36 PM — Unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building on an unknown date, sometime between 11:36 pm on July 27, 1971 and 9:00 am on July 28, 1971.

All 38 conversations from July 27, 1971 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 265-001, July 27, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/265-001 (accessed November 2, 2026).