Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 382 › Conversation 382-012
Nixon & Sanchez on Rose Mary Woods and White House logistics
Saturday, December 16, 1972 · 3:28 PM–3:45 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 29 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon met with his valet, Manolo Sanchez, to facilitate the delivery of materials to Rose Mary Woods. The conversation focused on the logistics of placing specific correspondence and items on Woods’s desk while she was away in New York. The brief interaction concluded with the President instructing Sanchez to leave the items in her office.
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NARA Description
On December 16, 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 3:28 pm and 3:45 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 382-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 382-12
Date: December 16, 1972
Time: Unknown between 3:28 pm and 3:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 382-12 (cont’d)
The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
Rose Mary Woods’s schedule
-New York
-Item for Woods’s desk
-Woods’s correspondence
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.Also recorded on December 16, 1972
- 034-099 3:25 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 3:25 pm to 3:28 pm.
- 382-009 3:25 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:25 pm to 3:28 pm.
- 382-010 3:28 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:28 pm and 3:45 pm.
- 382-011 3:28 PM · 39 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 3:28 pm and 3:45 pm.
- 034-100 3:45 PM · 2 min — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:45 pm and 4:27 pm.
- 034-101 3:45 PM · 14 sec — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:45 pm and 4:27 pm.
- 034-102 3:45 PM · 25 sec — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:45 pm and 4:27 pm.
- 382-013 3:45 PM · 1 hr 35 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, Ronald L. Ziegler, Manolo Sanchez, unknown person(s), Anne L. Armstrong, and Lawrence M. Higby met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:45 pm to 5:25 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 382-012, December 16, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/382-012 (accessed October 5, 2026).