{"conversationCode":"354-018","tapeNumber":354,"conversationNumber":18,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-354-018","startDateTime":"1972-10-06T17:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-06T18:05:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Oct-1972","startTime":"1:55 PM","endDate":"6-Oct-1972","endTime":"2:05 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On October 6, 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 1:55 pm and 2:05 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 354-018 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 354-18\n\nDate: October 6, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 1:55 pm and 2:05 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with Manolo Sanchez.\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal returnable]\n[Duration: 28s        ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nSanchez left at an unknown time before 2:05 pm.","filename":["354-018.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"354-017","nextCode":"354-019","transcript":[{"start":9.46,"end":9.79,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief meeting with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, in the Old Executive Office Building. The recorded portion of the interaction is minimal, as the majority of the conversation was designated as a personal returnable item and subsequently withdrawn from the public record. No substantive policy discussions or significant administrative decisions were captured in the available audio.","topics":["Manolo Sanchez","Personal staff","White House operations","Presidential valet"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T16:41:47.820Z"},"topicSlugs":["manolo-sanchez","personal-staff","white-house-operations","presidential-valet"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"354-018.mp3","bytes":298421,"durationSec":12.37,"bitrate":192944,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:44.539Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/354-018.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/354-018","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/354/conversation-354-018","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}