Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 315 › Conversation 315-022
Nixon & Sanchez on Speechwriting and White House Administration
Monday, January 17, 1972 · 3:44 PM–3:58 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building
AI Summary
President Nixon met with his personal aide, Manolo Sanchez, to coordinate the processing of administrative materials. Nixon instructed Sanchez to deliver a dictabelt containing a draft of a speech to his secretary, Rose Mary Woods. Additionally, the pair discussed the inclusion of specific correspondence to be addressed alongside the drafting work.
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NARA Description
On January 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:44 pm and 3:58 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 315-022 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 315-22
Date: January 19, 1972
Time: Unknown between 3:44 pm and 3:58 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
The President's speech draft on dictabelt
-Delivery to Rose Mary Woods
-Letters
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:58 pm.Also recorded on January 17, 1972
- 018-092 3:10 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:10 pm and 3:16 pm.
- 018-093 3:16 PM · 17 min — President Richard M. Nixon and William L. Safire talked on the telephone from 3:16 pm to 3:34 pm.
- 315-008 3:16 PM · 16 min — President Richard M. Nixon and William L. Safire met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:16 pm to 3:34 pm.
- 315-020 3:43 PM · 58 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and William L. Safire met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:43 pm to 3:44 pm.
- 315-021 3:44 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Roger Staubach met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:44 pm and 3:58 pm.
- 649-001 3:46 PM · 2 hr 49 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Manolo Sanchez, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and John B. Connally met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:46 pm and 6:38 pm.
- 315-023 3:58 PM · 34 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:58 pm to 3:59 pm.
- 315-024 4:00 PM · 1 hr 17 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, John B. Connally, Marjorie P. Acker, unknown person(s), Raymond K. Price, Jr., Rose Mary Woods, and Walter R. Tkach met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:00 pm to 5:25 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 315-022, January 17, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/315-022 (accessed September 29, 2026).