{"conversationCode":"309-014","tapeNumber":309,"conversationNumber":14,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-309-014","startDateTime":"1971-12-24T19:12:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-24T19:16:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Dec-1971","startTime":"2:12 PM","endDate":"24-Dec-1971","endTime":"2:16 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On December 24, 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 2:12 pm and 2:16 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 309-014 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. 309-14\n\nDate: December 24, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 2:12 pm and 2:16 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with Manolo Sanchez.\n\n     Letters\n           -Out box\n\nSanchez left at an unknown time before 2:16 pm.","filename":["309-014.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:54:28","tapeEnd":"01:54:59","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"309-013","nextCode":"309-015","transcript":[{"start":0.37,"end":18.34,"text":"Whenever those things go to the out-of-box in one letter, they should fail."},{"start":18.36,"end":18.8,"text":"I'm not going to talk."},{"start":18.82,"end":19.66,"text":"In case I don't do it, you'll hear sounds."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, to provide specific administrative instructions regarding the handling of outgoing correspondence. The President directed Sanchez to ensure that letters placed in the out-box are processed correctly and mentioned the possibility of recording voice memos. This brief interaction focused on streamlining the President's personal mail workflow.","topics":["Manolo Sanchez","White House operations","correspondence","administrative procedures","personal valet"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:23:27.500Z"},"topicSlugs":["manolo-sanchez","white-house-operations","correspondence","administrative-procedures","personal-valet"],"audioDurationSec":23,"audioFiles":[{"file":"309-014.mp3","bytes":920342,"durationSec":22.88,"bitrate":321857,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.955Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/309-014.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/309-014","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/309/conversation-309-014","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}