Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 666 › Conversation 666-005
Sanchez on Oval Office and informal interaction
Monday, February 7, 1972 · 11:54 AM–12:23 PM ET · Oval Office · 2 min
AI Summary
Manolo Sanchez engaged in a brief, informal interaction with an unidentified individual within the Oval Office. The participants exchanged comments regarding physical stature, though the conversation remained largely unintelligible and lacked any substantive policy discussion. No significant administrative decisions or action items resulted from this brief encounter.
- Manolo Sanchez
- Oval Office
- informal interaction
- physical appearance
Audio
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Position in tape: 02:42:30 – 02:43:59
part B, 40:20
NARA Description
On February 7, 1972, Manolo Sanchez and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:54 am and 12:23 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 666-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 666-5
Date: February 7, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:18 pm and 12:23 pm
Location: Oval Office
Manolo Sanchez met with an unknown person.
[Unintelligible]
Sanchez and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:23 pm.Transcript (AI-generated)
No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The recording contains only background room noise, shuffling sounds, and distant unintelligible murmurs with no decipherable speech.
Also recorded on February 7, 1972
- 020-047 11:41 AM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:41 am and 3:41 pm.
- 090-001 11:54 AM · 24 min — President Richard M. Nixon, United States Attorneys, Treasury Department officials, and Justice Department officials, including Whitney N. Seymour, Jr., William D. Keller, James R. Thompson, Jr., Harold H. Titus, Jr., Louis C. Bechtle, Ralph Guy, Jr., Joseph L. Tauro, James L. Browning, Jr., Richard L. Thornburgh, George Beall, Herbert J. Stein, Anthony J. P. Farris, Eldon B. Mahon, Stan Pitkin, John W. Stokes, Jr., Donald O'Connor, Harry D. Steward, Robert W. Rust, James L. Treece, Gerald J. Gallinghouse, Daniel Bartlett, Frederick Coleman, Sidney I. Lezak, William Smitherman, William W. Milligan, David J. Cannon, John L. Briggs, Wayman G. Sherrer, James M. Sullivan, Jr., F. L. Peter Stone, Richard G. Kleindeinst, Myles J. Ambrose, Henry E. Petersen, Jerris Leonard, John E. ("Jack") Ingersoll, Harlington Wood, Jr., Eugene T. Rossides, John F. Hanlon, Egil ("Bud") Krogh, Jr., Geoffrey C. Shepard, the White House photographer, and members of the press, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House from 11:54 am to 12:18 pm.
- 666-003 11:54 AM · 2 min — Stephen B. Bull and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:54 am and 12:23 pm.
- 666-004 11:54 AM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:54 am and 12:23 pm.
- 090-004 12:18 PM · 2 min — Unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 12:18 pm on February 7, 1972 and 11:22 am on February 9, 1972.
- 666-009 12:18 PM · 1 min — Stephen B. Bull and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:18 pm and 12:23 pm.
- 666-010 12:18 PM · 49 sec — Stephen B. Bull and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:18 pm and 12:23 pm.
- 666-006 12:42 PM · 48 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Manolo Sanchez, Stephen B. Bull, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:42 pm to 1:30 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 666-005, February 7, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/666-005 (accessed November 2, 2026).