Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 297 › Conversation 297-043

Nixon & Sanchez on Physical objects

Friday, November 12, 1971 · 2:41 PM–3:55 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 5 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, ManoloConversation297-043 on Tape 297 (tape position 02:28:39–02:33:36)StartFriday, November 12, 1971 at 2:41 PMEndFriday, November 12, 1971 at 3:55 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 297-043 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon asked Manolo Sanchez to move some items in the President's office. Sanchez complied with the request, placing the items as directed by the President. The conversation was brief and focused on the physical arrangement of objects within the office space.

  • Office arrangement
  • Presidential request
  • Physical objects
  • Nixon
  • Sanchez

Audio

Download MP3 · 4.6 MB

This clip was extracted from the full tape recording by Easy Nixon.

Listen to the full tape segment

Position in tape: 02:28:39 – 02:33:36

part A, 35:19

297a.mp3
297b.mp3

NARA Description

On November 12, 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 2:41 pm and 3:55 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 297-043 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 297-43

Date: November 12, 1971
Time: Unknown between 2:41 pm and 3:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

*****************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 11s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
*****************************************************************

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Transcript (AI-generated)

This transcript was made by an AI model listening to the recording (gemini-3.8-flash) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Speaker names are the model's inference from the voices and the participant list. Words and names can still be wrong — verify against the audio and the finding aid before citing.

Download transcript (.txt) · JSON data

Click a timestamp to play from that point; the page address then links to that moment (e.g. #t=125).

SanchezYes, sir.
NixonOh, it's Manolo there? Uh-huh.
SanchezYes, it is, sir.
NixonYeah. Do you can take this for me, please, this [unintelligible] right over here, I can reach for it. Don't, don't touch anything, because I have made [unintelligible] take this, uh, these tables here.
SanchezSure.
Nixonand uh, put it right in the back of those layers in front of the window, see, it's just about uh, solid, and put the other one right behind it. Yeah.

Also recorded on November 12, 1971

  • 617-012 2:26 PM · 1 hr 8 min — President Richard M. Nixon, George P. Shultz, Caspar W. ("Cap") Weinberger, Stephen B. Bull, Clark MacGregor, William E. Timmons, Ronald L. Ziegler, Michael J. ("Mike") Mansfield, Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Milton R. Young, Allen J. Ellender, George H. Mahon, Frank T. Bow, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:26 pm and 3:36 pm.
  • 014-084 2:36 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and John D. Ehrlichman talked on the telephone from 2:36 pm to 2:38 pm.
  • 297-040 2:36 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:36 pm to 2:38 pm.
  • 014-085 2:38 PM · 4 min — John D. Ehrlichman, White House operator, John D. Ehrlichman talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:38 pm and 11:59 pm.
  • 297-041 2:40 PM · 10 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:40 pm to 2:41 pm.
  • 297-042 2:41 PM · 7 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 2:41 pm and 3:55 pm.
  • 297-044 2:41 PM · 54 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 2:41 pm and 3:55 pm.
  • 297-045 2:41 PM · 21 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 2:41 pm and 3:55 pm.

All 64 conversations from November 12, 1971 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 297-043, November 12, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/297-043 (accessed November 15, 2026).