Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 310 › Conversation 310-021

Nixon & Sanchez on Presidential staff and personal matters

Sunday, December 26, 1971 · 11:21 AM–11:25 AM ET · Old Executive Office Building

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, ManoloConversation310-021 on Tape 310 (tape position 02:58:43–03:00:09)StartSunday, December 26, 1971 at 11:21 AMEndSunday, December 26, 1971 at 11:25 AMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 310-021 ↗

President Richard Nixon met with his valet, Manolo Sanchez, in the Old Executive Office Building for a brief discussion. The conversation remains restricted due to personal content, as the majority of the brief meeting is classified as a withdrawn personal returnable item. No substantive administrative or policy-related developments were recorded during this interaction.

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This conversation has not yet been cut into its own clip, so the player above contains the full tape segment shared with neighbouring conversations. It begins about 02:58:43 into the tape and ends around 03:00:09.

No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.

On December 26, 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 11:21 am and 11:25 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 310-021 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 310-21

Date: December 26, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:21 am and 11:25 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 35s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:25 am.
  • 017-097 11:21 AM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:21 am and 11:25 pm.
  • 310-020 11:21 AM · 8 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 11:21 am and 11:25 am.
  • 017-098 11:25 AM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 11:25 am to 11:30 am.
  • 310-022 11:25 AM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 11:25 am to 11:30 am.
  • 017-099 11:30 AM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:30 am and 11:45 am.
  • 310-023 11:30 AM · 16 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 11:30 am and 11:45 am.
  • 017-100 11:45 AM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 11:45 am to 11:52 am.
  • 310-024 11:45 AM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 11:45 am to 11:52 am.

Conversation 310-021, December 26, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/310-021 (accessed October 11, 2026).