{"conversationCode":"278-071","tapeNumber":278,"conversationNumber":71,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-278-071","startDateTime":"1971-09-16T19:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-16T19:41:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Sep-1971","startTime":"3:00 PM","endDate":"16-Sep-1971","endTime":"3:41 PM","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 3:00 pm and 3:41 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 278-071 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. 278-71\n\nDate: September 16, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:00 pm and 3:41 pm\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[278-071-w001]\n[Duration: 3s]\n\n       Request\n             -Tea\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nSanchez left at an unknown time before 3:41 pm.","filename":["278-071.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:51:12","tapeEnd":"03:55:36","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"278-070","nextCode":"278-072","transcript":[{"start":0.15,"end":1.14,"text":"Have some tea now, huh?"},{"start":2.46,"end":2.66,"text":"Yeah."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Richard Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, in the Old Executive Office Building. The brief interaction focused on the President requesting that Sanchez bring him tea. No other substantive political or administrative matters were discussed during this exchange.","topics":["Personal valet","White House staff","Daily routine","Manolo Sanchez"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:01:29.760Z"},"topicSlugs":["personal-valet","white-house-staff","daily-routine","manolo-sanchez"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"278-071.mp3","bytes":186828,"durationSec":4.54,"bitrate":329564,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.329Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/278-071.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/278-071","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/278/conversation-278-071","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}