Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 449 › Conversation 449-019
Kissinger & Sanchez on Oval Office
Tuesday, September 21, 1971 · 5:00 PM–5:02 PM ET · Oval Office · 52 sec
AI Summary
Manolo Sanchez and Henry A. Kissinger met briefly in the Oval Office to conduct a short, largely unintelligible exchange. Due to the lack of audible content in the recording, no substantive policy discussions, decisions, or action items were captured. The encounter concluded within two minutes, providing no significant historical insight into administration activities.
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NARA Description
On September 21, 1971, Manolo Sanchez and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:00 pm and 5:02 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 449-019 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 449-19
Date: September 21, 1971
Time: Unknown between 5:00 pm and 5:02 pm
Location: Oval Office
Manolo Sanchez met with an unknown person[Henry A. Kissinger?].
[Unintelligible]
Sanchez and the unknown person [Kissinger?] left at an unknown time before 5:02 pm.Transcript (AI-generated)
No transcript is available yet for this conversation.
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- 449-018 4:23 PM · 35 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Prince Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz Al Saud, Ibrahim al-Sowayel, Joseph J. Sisco, Camile Nowfels, Harold H. Saunders, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:23 pm to 5:00 pm.
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- 449-021 5:15 PM · 23 sec — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:15 pm and 8:20 pm.
- 009-104 6:45 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:45 pm and 7:33 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 449-019, September 21, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417178981). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/449-019 (accessed November 2, 2026).