Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 299 › Conversation 299-001
Nixon & Sanchez on Arthur Burns and Presidential valet
Wednesday, November 10, 1971 · 1:20 PM–1:31 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 2 min
AI Summary
President Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, in the Old Executive Office Building. While the bulk of the recording is withheld for personal privacy, the brief transcript captures the President inquiring about the needs of Dr. Arthur Burns. No further substantive policy discussions were documented during this short interaction.
Audio
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Position in tape: 00:03:30 – 00:05:21
3:28
NARA Description
On November 10, 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 1:20 pm and 1:31 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 299-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 299-1 Date: November 10, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:20 pm and 1:31 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Manolo Sanchez. ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 44s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ***************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:31 pm.
Transcript (AI-generated)
No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The recording contains no intelligible speech, consisting only of silence, steady background hiss, and intermittent tape hum/beeps corresponding to a withdrawn item.
Material withdrawn by the National Archives (for privacy or national security) is replaced with a tone or silence in the released audio.
Also recorded on November 10, 1971
- 014-009 1:20 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:20 pm and 1:31 pm.
- 299-002 1:20 PM · 44 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 1:20 pm and 1:31 pm.
- 616-008 1:20 PM · 1 min — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:20 pm and 4:20 pm.
- 014-010 1:31 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone from 1:31 pm to 1:33 pm.
- 299-003 1:31 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Arthur F. Burns met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:31 pm to 1:33 pm.
- 014-011 1:33 PM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:33 pm and 2:27 pm.
- 299-004 1:33 PM · 1 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 1:33 pm and 2:27 pm.
- 299-005 1:33 PM · 46 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 1:33 pm and 2:27 pm.
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- Nixon, Butterfield & Bull on Diplomacy and International Monetary Fund September 29, 1972 · 2 min
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- Nixon & Sanchez on Presidential valet July 27, 1971
- Nixon & Sanchez on Presidential valet October 17, 1971
Cite this conversation
Conversation 299-001, November 10, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/299-001 (accessed November 14, 2026).