President Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, in the Oval Office to coordinate logistics regarding the President's personal belongings. The primary focus of the discussion concerned the location and retrieval of a briefcase currently held in the Executive Office Building. Sanchez subsequently departed the office to address these administrative arrangements.
On August 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:26 pm and 4:12 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 566-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 566-16
Date: August 17, 1971
Time: Unknown between 3:26 pm and 4:12 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
Briefcase
-Location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:12 pm.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.