Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 315 › Conversation 315-022

Nixon & Sanchez on Speechwriting and Rose Mary Woods

Monday, January 17, 1972 · 3:44 PM–3:58 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 59 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, ManoloConversation315-022 on Tape 315 (tape position 01:45:36–01:46:32)StartMonday, January 17, 1972 at 3:44 PMEndMonday, January 17, 1972 at 3:58 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 315-022 ↗

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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Position in tape: 01:45:36 – 01:46:32

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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.

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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.

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Take this over to the rails, please.
That's where we'll work on it.
We'll put a couple of letters on it.

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 · 17 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 · 1 min — 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 · 37 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.

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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 November 13, 2026).