Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 273 › Conversation 273-025

Nixon & Sanchez on Council of Wales

Sunday, August 15, 1971 · 4:59 PM–5:04 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 1 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, ManoloConversation273-025 on Tape 273 (tape position 03:45:26–03:46:40)StartSunday, August 15, 1971 at 4:59 PMEndSunday, August 15, 1971 at 5:04 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 273-025 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, for a brief discussion recorded in the Old Executive Office Building. The conversation involves vague references to administrative coordination and potential outreach efforts involving a "John" and the Council of Wales. The exchange remains cryptic due to the obscured nature of the transcript, focusing on logistical considerations and the timing of future actions.

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NARA Description

On August 15, 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 4:59 pm and 5:04 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 273-025 of the White House Tapes.

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Conversation No. 273-25

Date: August 15, 1971
Time: Unknown between 4:59 pm and 5:04 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:04 pm.

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Now, on that, I just do quote, too, if we can get to the section one.
He ought to be able to give us an opinion and do this.
If you could talk to John and say, John, give him a parody for the national material, you know, and that also allows us to speak to the textual thing.
I really believe that Japanese might be on textualism, to be sure of this stuff.
Do you?
Absolutely.
You have to realize, too, the point you made that only 4% of America is a trade, that GMT is a trade.
So what the hell is the tail light?
Robert, it's time for us to quit being give to Iran.
Well, I'm concerned because basically they don't have anything else to talk about.
So they're going to, after we get rid of this one, they'll go after something else.
But that's all right.
And particularly, I think in a sense, well, I would prefer to wait until, in a sense, we really probably have some advantages to it now for this reason, but it's more like the China thing where it's so totally unexpected coming at this point.
And before the others have all come out and Peter, you're all the way, we whack it.
Don't you think so?
There's one other event that just appeared to me.
I hadn't thought of it this way, but, you know, we talked about the necessity of doing it at the time we had the Congress here.
So, on this one, I don't think we should consult with the Congress at all.
What do you think?
I mean, maybe you want to call Mills and Burns, but maybe Russell.
I don't know.
I don't know.
They've advocated all these things already.
And frankly, you see, the Congress is out of town.
We have no obligation to consult them.
If they were here tending the business, we would.
So I think it has some advantage out there, too.
But the difficulty with doing it when they're here is they do.
But I see no reason.
I'm not so sure we should consult them at all.
I'm just in view of it.
There are things that we all can do.
Okay, thank you.

Also recorded on August 15, 1971

  • 007-117 4:53 PM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:53 pm and 9:30 pm.
  • 273-026 5:04 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John N. Mitchell met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:04 pm to 5:10 pm.
  • 273-027 5:10 PM · 53 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Marjorie P. Acker met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm.
  • 273-028 5:10 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm.
  • 273-029 5:10 PM · 53 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm.
  • 273-030 5:10 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm.
  • 273-031 5:10 PM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm.
  • 273-032 5:26 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:26 pm to 5:28 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 273-025, August 15, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/273-025 (accessed November 2, 2026).