Complete Nixon Tapes
Recorded between June and November 1972 Can Be Heard Online for the First Time
240 Hours Originally Released
By The National Archives in 2003
For the first time, the complete set of
conversations taped between July 1972 and November 1972--over three thousand
individual audio files--are freely available to the public. Representing the fourth chronological
release of Nixon tapes ("Chron 4"), the recorded conversations took
place across the Executive offices, including the Oval Office, the Executive
Office Building, and various White House telephones.
These audio files were originally released by the
National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) Archives II at College
Park, Maryland, in 2003, but were made available to onsite researchers only on
compact discs (CDs). At the time of the creation of this page this complete
collection is not available anywhere else outside of the reading room at NARA's
Archives II.
Below is a complete list of all "Chron
4" tapes, including 1) the conversation number, 2) the date of the
conversation, 3) the time of the conversation, 4) the participants in the
conversation, 5) and the original audio file available for download, free of
charge, as a service to researchers and the public. While it will be years more
before scholars and researchers transcribe these recordings, this release marks
the first time that the complete collection has been made readily accessible to
the public.
Note: unlike previous chronological releases,
which were blocks of audio that each contained many conversations, these
conversations are already individually clipped. This is the same format in which
they were originally released by the National Archives. When broken out into
individual conversations, this release is too large to appear all on page.
Therefore, it has been broken up according to taping location, as indicated
below.
For a key to participants' names, click here
(176k).
- Also of interest may be the President's Daily
Diary, for:
- July
1-31, 1972 (6.1m)
- August
1-31, 1972 (5.7m)
- September
1-21, 1972 (4.8m)
- September
22-30, 1972 (4.5m)
- October
1-15, 1972 (4.4m)
- October
16-31, 1972 (5.3m)
- November
1-30, 1972 (5.3m)
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- To continue, please select a Chron 4 subseries
from one of the following taping locations:
- White House Telephone
Conversations (WHT): July 18, 1972 - November 3, 1972
- Camp David Study Table
(CDST): August 11, 1972 - October 30, 1972
- Camp David Study Desk
(CDSD): August 15, 1972 - October 30, 1972
- Camp David Hard Wire (CDHW):
July 21, 1972 - October 30, 1972
- Executive Office Building (EOB):
July 19, 1972 - November 2, 1972
- Oval Office (OVAL):
July 1, 1972 - November 1, 1972
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