{"conversationCode":"382-015","tapeNumber":382,"conversationNumber":15,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-382-015","startDateTime":"1972-12-17T18:19:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-17T19:24:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Dec-1972","startTime":"1:19 PM","endDate":"17-Dec-1972","endTime":"2:24 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On December 17, 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 1:19 pm and 2:24 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 382-015 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":"5.2","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part II","chronReleaseDate":"2-Dec-2008","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 382-15\n\nDate: December 17, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 1:19 pm and 2:24 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\f                                             -47-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                             Conversation No. 382-15 (cont’d)\n\nThe President met with Manolo Sanchez.\n\n       Draft of the President’s letter to Nguyen Van Thieu\n             -Delivery to a secretary\n\nSanchez left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.","filename":["382-015.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"382-014","nextCode":"382-016","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":15.29,"text":"Hey, this is Robert."},{"start":15.31,"end":15.75,"text":"I want to talk to you."},{"start":15.77,"end":16.41,"text":"I don't know how to talk to you."},{"start":16.43,"end":17.07,"text":"I don't know how to talk to you."},{"start":17.09,"end":17.74,"text":"I don't know how to talk to you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, in the Old Executive Office Building to facilitate administrative tasks. During the encounter, the President prepared a draft of a letter addressed to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. Nixon instructed Sanchez to deliver this document to a secretary for processing.","topics":["Nguyen Van Thieu","White House administration","Correspondence","Manolo Sanchez","Vietnam policy"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T17:43:09.927Z"},"topicSlugs":["nguyen-van-thieu","white-house-administration","correspondence","manolo-sanchez","vietnam-policy"],"audioDurationSec":26,"audioFiles":[{"file":"382-015.mp3","bytes":635084,"durationSec":26.32,"bitrate":193034,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:44.876Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:30.464Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/382-015.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/382-015","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/382/conversation-382-015","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}