{"conversationCode":"280-016","tapeNumber":280,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-280-016","startDateTime":"1971-09-23T17:16:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-23T18:20:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Sep-1971","startTime":"1:16 PM","endDate":"23-Sep-1971","endTime":"2:20 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On September 23, 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 1:16 pm and 2:20 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 280-016 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. 280-16\n\nDate: September 23, 1971\n\nTime: Unknown between 1:16 pm and 2:20 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with an unknown person Manolo Sanchez.\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 07/16/2019.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[280-016-w001]\n[Duration: 23s]\n\n       Request\n             -Unknown item\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nThe unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm.","filename":["280-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:14:51","tapeEnd":"02:18:09","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"280-015","nextCode":"280-017","transcript":[{"start":0.49,"end":5.7,"text":"Let's see, uh... You have, uh..."},{"start":5.71,"end":6.62,"text":"I'll take that."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Richard Nixon met with his longtime valet, Manolo Sanchez, in the Old Executive Office Building to handle a brief, personal administrative matter. The conversation was limited in scope, focusing on the retrieval or exchange of an unknown item. No substantive policy discussions or significant political developments occurred during this short interaction.","topics":["Manolo Sanchez","Personal staff","White House operations","Valet services"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:08:12.640Z"},"topicSlugs":["manolo-sanchez","personal-staff","white-house-operations","valet-services"],"audioDurationSec":26,"audioFiles":[{"file":"280-016.mp3","bytes":1061407,"durationSec":26.41,"bitrate":321533,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.614Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/280-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/280-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/280/conversation-280-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}