{"conversationCode":"559-004","tapeNumber":559,"conversationNumber":4,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-559-004","startDateTime":"1971-08-10T14:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-10T15:59:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Aug-1971","startTime":"10:05 AM","endDate":"10-Aug-1971","endTime":"11:59 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"[Unknown person(s)]; Sanchez, Manolo; United States Secret Service agents;","description":"On August 10, 1971, unknown person(s), Manolo Sanchez, and United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:05 am and 11:59 am. 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Segment cleared for release.]\n[Federal Statute]\n[559-004-w002]\n[Duration: 4s]\n\n     Placement of unknown object\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n     The President’s location\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous non-historical (H) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 06/14/2019. Segment\ncleared for release.]\n[Non-Historical Returnable]\n[559-004-w001]\n[Duration: 1m 54s]\n\n     General conversation\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nThe unknown man and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:59 am.","filename":["559-004.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:03:00","tapeEnd":"01:06:42","participantsList":["[Unknown person(s)]","Sanchez, Manolo","United States Secret Service agents"],"prevCode":"559-003","nextCode":"559-005","transcript":[{"start":0.67,"end":23.73,"text":"It's over here."},{"start":23.75,"end":24.26,"text":"Yes, thank you very much."},{"start":24.28,"end":24.66,"text":"Do you feel better?"},{"start":24.68,"end":25.2,"text":"Yeah, I feel better, yeah."},{"start":25.22,"end":26.28,"text":"Good, because I said, and that's the thing, you know."},{"start":26.3,"end":26.74,"text":"Start right here, two."},{"start":26.76,"end":27.22,"text":"You have to stay there."},{"start":27.24,"end":27.7,"text":"You have a good ground."},{"start":27.72,"end":28.62,"text":"And then you just set the screen and stop it."},{"start":28.99,"end":44.17,"text":"and that you passed off the one who said that they wasn't the cause of the table, but the one who suffered no hatred."},{"start":44.19,"end":49.05,"text":"Well, but you can put nothing in the mirror, although we can put you in more tables, but how you can pass to certain countries?"},{"start":49.07,"end":49.17,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":51.13,"end":75.32,"text":"Just one question, would they, would they put in here a G or a J, a G, the way you can serve?"},{"start":75.34,"end":76,"text":"And would you not put it in here?"},{"start":76.02,"end":77.88,"text":"I don't have papers and a pencil in my hands, and sometimes I can't even put it in the floor."},{"start":77.9,"end":78.53,"text":"I don't know if that's the law."},{"start":78.55,"end":78.89,"text":"Well, it depends."},{"start":78.91,"end":79.43,"text":"It's one of the standards."},{"start":79.45,"end":80.09,"text":"Sometimes it's a vision of them."},{"start":80.11,"end":80.85,"text":"I don't have a place to put the card."},{"start":105.67,"end":130.04,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Manolo Sanchez and an unknown individual met with Secret Service agents in the Oval Office to coordinate the physical placement of specific objects within the room. 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