Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 330 › Conversation 330-034

Nixon with unidentified visitors in his EOB office on Manolo Sanchez

Wednesday, April 12, 1972 · 1:40 PM–2:47 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]Conversation330-034 on Tape 330 (tape position 04:00:15–04:00:30)StartWednesday, April 12, 1972 at 1:40 PMEndWednesday, April 12, 1972 at 2:47 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 330-034 ↗

President Nixon met with an unknown individual, likely a staff member, to coordinate the retrieval of a specific item. The discussion primarily involved administrative or personal logistics handled by Manolo Sanchez. No significant policy decisions were recorded during this brief encounter.

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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 04:00:15 into the tape and ends around 04:00:30.

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

On April 12, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:40 pm and 2:47 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 330-034 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 330-34

Date: April 12, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:40 pm and 2:47 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

       Manolo Sanchez
           -Unknown article to be picked up

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:47 pm.
  • 330-032 1:40 PM · 15 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:40 pm and 2:47 pm.
  • 330-033 1:40 PM · 23 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:40 pm and 2:47 pm.
  • 330-035 1:40 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:40 pm and 2:47 pm.
  • 707-011 1:40 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:40 pm and 2:47 pm.
  • 707-012 1:40 PM · 27 sec — unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:40 pm and 11:59 pm.
  • 330-036 2:47 PM · 20 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Lee W. Huebner met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:47 pm to 3:09 pm.
  • 330-037 3:09 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:09 pm and 3:20 pm.
  • 330-038 3:09 PM · 45 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:09 pm and 3:20 pm.

Conversation 330-034, April 12, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/330-034 (accessed October 1, 2026).