{"conversationCode":"308-012","tapeNumber":308,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-308-012","startDateTime":"1971-12-10T18:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-10T19:58:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Dec-1971","startTime":"1:50 PM","endDate":"10-Dec-1971","endTime":"2:58 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On December 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 1:50 pm and 2:58 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 308-012 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. 308-12\n\nDate: December 22, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:50 pm and 2:58 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with Manolo Sanchez.\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal Returnable]\n[Duration: 3m ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nSanchez left at an unknown time before 2:58 pm.","filename":["308-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:21:19","tapeEnd":"00:24:26","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"308-011","nextCode":"308-013","transcript":[{"start":1.94,"end":13.41,"text":"Mr. Mitchell, come over here."},{"start":13.43,"end":28.79,"text":"Yeah, oh, okay."},{"start":28.81,"end":28.99,"text":"Hey, sir."},{"start":30.59,"end":34.14,"text":"things here, I think the tobacco gets a little too dry."},{"start":34.64,"end":38.42,"text":"So what I think you have to do is to... No, not always."},{"start":38.44,"end":38.96,"text":"Every day."},{"start":39.18,"end":39.69,"text":"Every day."},{"start":39.88,"end":42.25,"text":"I don't mean every day, but during the day."},{"start":42.39,"end":43.09,"text":"Every day."},{"start":43.11,"end":43.69,"text":"Every day."},{"start":43.71,"end":44.17,"text":"About a week."},{"start":44.75,"end":48.46,"text":"I think I've got to be gone a week, doesn't he?"},{"start":48.48,"end":50.36,"text":"That's true."},{"start":50.38,"end":50.8,"text":"Who knew it was this?"},{"start":50.82,"end":51.08,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":94.18,"end":118.21,"text":"He's in the back."},{"start":118.23,"end":120.76,"text":"Stay down on the steps."},{"start":121.95,"end":130.26,"text":"The small people, the administration, having fun."},{"start":131.76,"end":135.04,"text":"The male people, the operator."},{"start":135.06,"end":135.18,"text":"Sure."},{"start":137.21,"end":139.19,"text":"And the little boys, you know, the ones, the small ones."},{"start":139.21,"end":139.73,"text":"They're down there now."},{"start":139.75,"end":145.67,"text":"No, they won't get here alone."},{"start":145.69,"end":146.59,"text":"Very well."},{"start":146.69,"end":150.02,"text":"Okay, you've got to go."},{"start":150.04,"end":150.38,"text":"You've got to go."},{"start":150.4,"end":150.86,"text":"Oh, no, no, no, no, no."},{"start":150.88,"end":151.54,"text":"The people is..."},{"start":151.69,"end":181.36,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, to discuss household management and logistical details regarding the President's personal environment. Their dialogue focused on the maintenance of tobacco products and the oversight of staff activities within the Executive Office Building. The brief interaction concluded with administrative instructions concerning the movement of personnel in the office vicinity.","topics":["White House staff","Personal valet","Household management","Executive Office Building","Presidential administration"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:22:02.632Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-staff","personal-valet","household-management","executive-office-building","presidential-administration"],"audioDurationSec":181,"audioFiles":[{"file":"308-012.mp3","bytes":7260783,"durationSec":181.38,"bitrate":320240,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.956Z","transcriptGapSeconds":69,"transcriptGapShare":0.38,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/308-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/308-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/308/conversation-308-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}