{"conversationCode":"322-046","tapeNumber":322,"conversationNumber":46,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-322-046","startDateTime":"1972-03-09T19:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-09T21:30:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Mar-1972","startTime":"2:40 PM","endDate":"9-Mar-1972","endTime":"4:30 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On March 9, 1972, 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 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 322-046 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 322-46\n\nDate: March 9, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Request for a call to Manolo Sanchez","filename":["322-046.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:39:20","tapeEnd":"02:40:29","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"322-045","nextCode":"322-047","transcript":[{"start":0.23,"end":6.21,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated a brief communication with the White House operator to place a personal call to his longtime valet, Manolo Sanchez. The interaction served solely as a logistical request to facilitate this specific connection. No other policy matters or administrative business were conducted during this exchange.","topics":["Manolo Sanchez","White House operations","Presidential communications","Valet"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T15:01:26.782Z"},"topicSlugs":["manolo-sanchez","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","valet"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"322-046.mp3","bytes":261015,"durationSec":6.39,"bitrate":326583,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.568Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/322-046.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/322-046","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/322/conversation-322-046","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}