{"conversationCode":"394-001","tapeNumber":394,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-394-001","startDateTime":"1973-01-05T16:53:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-05T17:02:00.000Z","startDate":"5-Jan-1973","startTime":"11:53 AM","endDate":"5-Jan-1973","endTime":"12:02 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On January 5, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 11:53 am and 12:02 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 394-001 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":"5.3","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part III","chronReleaseDate":"23-Jun-2009","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 394-1\n\nDate: January 5, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 11:53 am and 12:02 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with Manolo Sanchez.\n\n       The President's schedule\n            -Meeting with Charles W. Colson\n\n*****************************************************************\n[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]\n\n       Bathrobe\n            -Replacement\n\n[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]\n*****************************************************************\n\nSanchez left at an unknown time before 12:02 pm.","filename":["394-001.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"393-014","nextCode":"394-002","transcript":[{"start":1.13,"end":8.9,"text":"The back room that I had in my bedroom was dried out."},{"start":8.94,"end":16.11,"text":"The back room that I had in the lake was over."},{"start":16.13,"end":19.81,"text":"You take all that and give it to somebody else."},{"start":19.83,"end":24.54,"text":"So I said, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, to discuss personal administrative matters. The brief interaction primarily concerned the disposal of household items and the potential replacement of a bathrobe. This informal exchange highlights the routine personal tasks managed by the President's support staff during his time in the Old Executive Office Building.","topics":["Manolo Sanchez","Personal staff","White House domestic affairs","Richard Nixon"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:02:30.353Z"},"topicSlugs":["manolo-sanchez","personal-staff","white-house-domestic-affairs","richard-nixon"],"audioDurationSec":30,"audioFiles":[{"file":"394-001.mp3","bytes":734155,"durationSec":30.45,"bitrate":192860,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:45.438Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/394-001.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/394-001","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/394/conversation-394-001","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}