{"conversationCode":"398-016","tapeNumber":398,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-398-016","startDateTime":"1973-01-23T00:56:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-23T01:15:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Jan-1973","startTime":"7:56 PM","endDate":"22-Jan-1973","endTime":"8:15 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On January 22, 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 7:56 pm and 8:15 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 398-016 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. 398-16\n\nDate: January 22, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 7:56 pm and 8:15 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with Manolo Sanchez; the recording began at an unknown time while the\nmeeting was in progress.\n\n*****************************************************************\n[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]\n\n       Clothing\n             -Bathrobe\n\n       Tape for private file\n\n[End of segment reviewed under deed of gift]\n*****************************************************************\n\nSanchez left at an unknown time before 8:15 am.","filename":["398-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"398-015","nextCode":"398-017","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":3.47,"text":"Now look, it was in the back row."},{"start":3.49,"end":4.6,"text":"I'm just starting to look at the photo."},{"start":5.02,"end":5.61,"text":"I found it."},{"start":5.63,"end":6.11,"text":"Oh, you found it now?"},{"start":6.13,"end":6.53,"text":"In the back row."},{"start":17.56,"end":23.54,"text":"What did you tell him?"},{"start":23.56,"end":25.22,"text":"He didn't know."},{"start":25.24,"end":26.34,"text":"Big, big, uh, what, sir?"},{"start":26.36,"end":27.61,"text":"This is the same tape, sir."},{"start":27.63,"end":28.55,"text":"This is the same tape, sir."},{"start":28.57,"end":29.11,"text":"This is the same tape, sir."},{"start":29.13,"end":29.75,"text":"Those are for the private file."},{"start":29.77,"end":30.39,"text":"Those are for the private file."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his valet, Manolo Sanchez, engage in a brief interaction concerning the review of photographs and the management of audio recordings. The discussion centers on locating a specific individual in a photograph and confirming that certain tapes are designated for the President’s private files. No major policy decisions were made during this brief, personal administrative exchange.","topics":["White House tapes","Manolo Sanchez","personal records","photography","White House staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:11:54.286Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-tapes","manolo-sanchez","personal-records","photography","white-house-staff"],"audioDurationSec":35,"audioFiles":[{"file":"398-016.mp3","bytes":847003,"durationSec":35.15,"bitrate":192792,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:45.438Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/398-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/398-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/398/conversation-398-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}