President Richard M. Nixon met with his personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, in the Oval Office to dictate a series of memoranda for the executive record. This brief encounter served as a routine administrative session for the President to formalize notes or instructions for his files. The meeting concluded when Sanchez departed the office shortly before 9:00 am.
On April 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:36 am and 8:58 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 709-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 709-7
Date: April 17, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:36 am and 8:58 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
Tape of memoranda for the file
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:58 am.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.