{"conversationCode":"439-012","tapeNumber":439,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-439-012","startDateTime":"1973-05-21T17:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-05-21T19:23:00.000Z","startDate":"21-May-1973","startTime":"1:10 PM","endDate":"21-May-1973","endTime":"3:23 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On May 21, 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 1:10 pm and 3:23 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 439-012 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":"5.5","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part V","chronReleaseDate":"21-Aug-2013","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 439-12\n\nDate: May 21, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 1:10 pm and 3:23 pm\nLocation: Old Executive Office Building\n\nPresident met with Manolo Sanchez.\n\n       President’s schedule\n              -Telephone call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s secretary\n                      -Draft of President’s Watergate statement\n\nSanchez left at an unknown time before 3:23 pm.","filename":["439-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"439-011","nextCode":"439-013","transcript":[{"start":4.76,"end":13.62,"text":"General Hague's Secretary of Commerce and I go and inspect my paper for three o'clock."},{"start":13.64,"end":15.95,"text":"And I told them to prepare the paper for three o'clock before they should bring it."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, to facilitate logistical arrangements regarding the President’s daily schedule. During the brief interaction, Nixon provided instructions to contact the secretary of Alexander M. Haig, Jr. to coordinate the delivery of a draft statement concerning the Watergate scandal. The primary objective of the meeting was to ensure that the document was prepared and ready for the President's review by his three o'clock appointment.","topics":["Watergate scandal","Presidential schedule","Alexander M. Haig Jr.","White House administration","Manolo Sanchez"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T20:12:18.056Z"},"topicSlugs":["watergate-scandal","presidential-schedule","alexander-m-haig-jr","white-house-administration","manolo-sanchez"],"audioDurationSec":21,"audioFiles":[{"file":"439-012.mp3","bytes":675840,"durationSec":21.01,"bitrate":257299,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:04.739Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/439-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/439-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/439/conversation-439-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}