Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 332 › Conversation 332-001

Nixon & Sanchez on Valet services and Presidential staff

Tuesday, April 18, 1972 · 8:05 PM–8:18 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, ManoloConversation332-001 on Tape 332 (tape position 00:01:23–00:01:46)StartTuesday, April 18, 1972 at 8:05 PMEndTuesday, April 18, 1972 at 8:18 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 332-001 ↗

President Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, in the Old Executive Office Building. While no transcript is available to verify the specific subjects of the conversation, the brief interaction suggests a routine administrative or personal check-in between the President and his staff member. The session concluded after a brief duration without any recorded substantive policy developments or action items.

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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 00:01:23 into the tape and ends around 00:01:46.

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

On April 18, 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 8:05 pm and 8:18 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 332-001 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 332-1

Date: April 18, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:05 pm and 8:18 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:18 pm.
  • 023-026 8:05 PM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:05 pm and 8:18 pm.
  • 023-027 8:05 PM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:05 pm and 8:18 pm.
  • 332-002 8:05 PM · 33 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:05 pm and 8:18 pm.
  • 332-003 8:05 PM · 49 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 8:05 pm and 8:18 pm.
  • 332-004 8:05 PM · 21 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 8:05 pm and 8:18 pm.
  • 023-028 8:18 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 8:18 pm to 8:24 pm.
  • 332-005 8:18 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:18 pm to 8:24 pm.
  • 023-029 8:24 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:24 pm and 8:25 pm.

Conversation 332-001, April 19, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/332-001 (accessed October 1, 2026).