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Sanchez & United States Secret Service agents on unemployment and labor force

Tuesday, April 11, 1972 · 5:05 PM–11:59 PM ET · Oval Office

ParticipantsUnited States Secret Service agents; Sanchez, ManoloConversation706-006 on Tape 706 (tape position 05:13:53–05:15:01)StartTuesday, April 11, 1972 at 5:05 PMEndTuesday, April 11, 1972 at 11:59 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 706-006 ↗

AI Summary

Secret Service agents and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office to discuss the current state of the American labor market and employment statistics. The participants addressed public misconceptions regarding unemployment and emphasized the record-breaking number of new jobs created. The discussion focused on contextualizing economic growth and social change, specifically highlighting that over 81 million people were employed at the time.

unemployment
labor force
employment statistics
economic policy
social change

Audio

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NARA Description

On April 11, 1972, United States Secret Service agents and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:05 pm and 11:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 706-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 706-6

Date: April 11, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:05 pm and 11:59 pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service] and Manolo Sanchez met.

     [Unintelligible]

     Stephen B. Bull
          -Door
               -Alarm

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.

Transcript (AI-generated)

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Now, I leave the impression that that's a bunch of welfare workers.

But that's not completely true either.

I said, many of them were entering the labor force for the first time.

Let's take the other side of the picture.

Last month, we had found jobs for 620,000 new people.

That's the second biggest month since 1900.

That is the biggest month since 1967.

We employed more people last month than we have in any month since 1967.

There's a total of 81,200,000 people employed in the United States.

I said, yes, we're not happy with the unemployed, but let's look at it in the perspective of where we are.

The truth of the matter is that more young people want to work, more lives want to work, and we're going to have it.

We're having a great social change in this country.

That's right.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 706-006, April 11, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/706-006 (accessed November 15, 2026).