{"conversationCode":"278-041","tapeNumber":278,"conversationNumber":41,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-278-041","startDateTime":"1971-09-16T13:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-16T14:33:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Sep-1971","startTime":"9:20 AM","endDate":"16-Sep-1971","endTime":"10:33 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On September 16, 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 9:20 am and 10:33 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 278-041 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 278-41\n\nDate: September 16, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am\nLocation: 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 04/03/2019.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[278-041-w001]\n[Duration: 23s]\n\n       King Timahoe\n              -Walk\n              -Barking\n\n       Request\n             -Coffee\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nSanchez left an unknown time before 10:33 am.","filename":["278-041.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"278-040","nextCode":"278-042","transcript":[{"start":0.21,"end":5.59,"text":"Oh, well, sir, I need to bring this to you because this is what you start working, this is the razor, you know."},{"start":6.03,"end":6.89,"text":"You have to start working?"},{"start":6.97,"end":7.23,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":7.53,"end":10.11,"text":"Because they keep going there and taking the other one."},{"start":10.13,"end":12.73,"text":"This one was quite a machine."},{"start":14.71,"end":16.11,"text":"Well, well, well, okay."},{"start":16.86,"end":22.32,"text":"Smart guy, the man."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, to discuss mundane administrative and personal matters within the Old Executive Office Building. Their conversation primarily centered on the logistics of the President's personal grooming equipment and brief remarks regarding the President's dog, King Timahoe. No significant policy decisions or administrative actions were addressed during this brief interaction.","topics":["Manolo Sanchez","Personal staff","Grooming equipment","King Timahoe","White House routine"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:58:40.783Z"},"topicSlugs":["manolo-sanchez","personal-staff","grooming-equipment","king-timahoe","white-house-routine"],"audioDurationSec":23,"audioFiles":[{"file":"278-041.mp3","bytes":930795,"durationSec":23.13,"bitrate":321957,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.329Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/278-041.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/278-041","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/278/conversation-278-041","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}