Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 401 › Conversation 401-030
Nixon & Sanchez on White House logistics and personal staff
Thursday, January 11, 1973 · 3:20 PM–3:24 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 13 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, in the Old Executive Office Building for a brief administrative interaction. The discussion primarily concerned a private food order for the President's personal files and sustenance. This routine exchange reflects the daily logistical support provided by staff within the Executive Office of the President.
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NARA Description
On January 11, 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 3:20 pm and 3:24 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 401-030 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 401-30
Date: January 11, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:20 pm and 3:24 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
Item for the President's private file
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Food order
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Sanchez left at 3:24 pm.
Conversation No. 401-31/402-1
Date: January 11, 1973
Time: 3:24 pm – 4:35 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Press relations
-Clifton Daniel
-Ziegler’s meeting
-New York Times
-Compared to James B. ("Scotty") Reston
-Washington, DC
-The President's offer
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 401-31/402-1 (cont’d)
-Son
-New York
-[First name unknown] Holloway [?]
-Tom Wicker
-Reston
-Wicker
-Support for the President
-The President's newspaper reading
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Washington bureau
-Advocacy journalism
-John Appel
-Relations with Nixon administration
-Robert Semple
-Appel
-Attitude toward the President
-Influence in Salt Lake City, Seattle, nationwide
-Compared to Semple
-Republican background
-Intelligence
-White House reporting
-Ziegler’s meeting with Clifton
-Ziegler’s opinion of Daniel’s motives
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-Daniel compared to Max Frankel
-[First name unknown] Cortsman [?], Eileen Shanahan, Francis L. Dale
-The President’s newspaper reading
-New York Times
-Relations with Nixon administration
-Check sources
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Frankel
-George S. McGovern
-Afternoon news
-George P. Shultz
-Congress
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 401-31/402-1 (cont’d)
-Daniel Schorr [?]
-$250 billion
-Leonard Woodcock
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Gerald R. Ford
Vietnam settlement
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's press briefing
-The President's meeting with Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-News report by Robert Pierpoint
-Consultation on December 1972 bombing
-Administration response
-Ziegler
-Melvin R. Laird
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President's position
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Congressional response
-Public opinion
-Haig’s role
-Kennedy
-William P. Rogers, Laird, Moorer, Spiro T. Agnew
-Ziegler’s role
-Public statements on negotiations
-Restrictions
-Congressional briefings
-Consultation
-Congressional testimony
-J. William Fulbright
-The President’s position
-Success of negotiations
-Briefing schedule
-Kissinger
-Paris
-Key Biscayne
-Purpose
-Ziegler’s position
-Murray Marder
-Telephone calls monitoring
-The President’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 401-31/402-1 (cont’d)
-Key Biscayne
-1973 Inauguration
-Messages to Congress
-Timing
-Marder’s story
-The President’s birthday
-Timing
-Plans
-Initialing of agreement
-Site
-Le Duc Tho
-Date
-Announcement
-Bombing halt
-Kissinger's and Haig's schedules
-Haig's trip to Saigon
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Announcement of bombing halt
-Kennedy
-Haig's Schedule
-Thieu’s response
-Possible announcement
-The President or Ziegler
-Thieu
-Kissinger
-Kennedy
-Initialing agreement
-Kissinger's role
-The President’s role
-Cease-fire announcement
-Signing
-Thieu
-Haig's meetings
-Possible results
-Announcement
-Signing
-Timing
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the President between 3:55 pm and 3:56 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 401-31/402-1 (cont’d)
[Conversation No. 401-31/402-1A]
[See Conversation No. 35-139]
[End of telephone conversation]
Vietnam settlement
-Public opinion
-Bombing effect
-Negotiations
-Negotiations
-Haig
-Kennedy, Haig
-Rogers, Laird, Agnew
Haldeman entered at 3:57 pm.
-Haig's announcement
-Bombing halt announcement
-Confidentiality
-Kennedy
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz
-Kennedy, Haig
-Ziegler's public statements
-Rogers, Laird
-Kennedy
-Ziegler's public statements
-Kissinger
-Reston
-Calls in Key Biscayne
-Kennedy
-Calls to congressional leaders
-Timing
-Haig
-Ziegler's public statements
-Kissinger's calls to congressional leaders
-William E. Timmons
-Rogers's and Laird's public statements
-The President's meeting with Kennedy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 401-31/402-1 (cont’d)
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Thieu
-Confidentiality
-Press relations
-Congressional leaders
-Statement by the President and Kennedy
-Kissinger
-Results
-Kissinger
-Announcement
-Schedule
-Announcement
-Ziegler
-Cease-fire
-Kissinger's schedule
-Thieu’s cooperation
-The President’s announcement
-Kennedy
-Thieu’s resistance
-The President’s announcement
-Contents
-Kissinger’s message
-Negotiations
-Ziegler's public statements
-Haig’s role
-The President’s role
-The President's Inaugural speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-December 1972 bombing
-Kissinger
-Announcement
-Options
-Initialing of agreement
-Kissinger's schedule
-Initialing of agreement
-Kissinger
-Meaning
-Compared to signing
-Cease-fire
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 401-31/402-1 (cont’d)
An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 3:57 pm and 4:15 pm.
-Thieu’s response
-Ziegler's public statements
-Kissinger's and the President's schedules
-Congressional leaders briefing
-Announcement
-Date
-Haig’s return
-Ziegler's public statements
-South Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-Kissinger's schedule
-1973 Inauguration
-Thieu
-Haig's trip
-Announcement
-Timing
-Thieu
-Haig’s trip
-1973 Inauguration
-1972 election
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:57 pm and
4:15 pm.
[Conversation No. 401-31/402-1B]
[See Conversation No. 35-140]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President talked with Kennedy between 4:15 pm and 4:17 pm.
[Conversation No. 401-31/402-1C]
[See Conversation No. 35-141]
[End of telephone conversation]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 401-31/402-1 (cont’d)
Vietnam settlement
-Negotiations
-Announcement
-Rogers
-William H. Sullivan
-Rogers's response
-Kissinger
-Laird
The President's schedule
-Florida trip
-Kissinger's schedule
-Thomas W. Braden's dinner
-Congressional response
Vietnam settlement
-Negotiations
-Congressional relations
-Possible appearance by Rogers
-Constitutional role
-Compared to an election defeat
-Press response
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Harry Reasoner
-Congressional relations
-Constitutional role
-Announcement
-Thieu response
-Haig's trip
-Kissinger
-Announcement
-Dates
-Contents
-Kissinger
-Thieu
-Leak
-Resistance
-1973 Inauguration
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 401-31/402-1 (cont’d)
-Importance
-Ziegler's public statements
-Consultation
-Florida trip
-Kissinger
Watergate
-Congressional Resolutions
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. investigation
-Watergate trial
-Edward M. Kennedy, Henry M. Jackson
-Ervin
-Legislative priorities
-Trial
-G. Gordon Liddy
-Donald H. Segretti
-Length
Congressional relations
-Legislative priorities
-Confirmation testimony
-Rogers’s testimony
-Adm. Issac Kidd’s testimony
-William Proxmire
-Roy L. Ash
The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 4:35 pm. An unknown portion of the
conversation was not recorded while the tape was changed.Also recorded on January 11, 1973
- 035-137 3:15 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:15 pm and 3:19 pm.
- 401-027 3:15 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:15 pm and 3:19 pm.
- 401-028 3:15 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:15 pm and 3:19 pm.
- 035-138 3:19 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 3:19 pm to 3:20 pm.
- 401-029 3:19 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:19 pm to 3:20 pm.
- 401-031 3:24 PM · 1 hr 8 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:24 pm to 4:35 pm.
- 035-139 3:55 PM · 17 sec — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone from 3:55 pm to 3:56 pm.
- 035-140 3:57 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:57 pm and 4:15 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 401-030, January 11, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/401-030 (accessed October 1, 2026).