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Complete Nixon Tapes
Recorded between November 1972 and July 1973 Can Be Heard Online for the First Time
967.5 Hours Originally Released
By the National Archives between 2007 and 2013 For the first time, the complete set of
publicly released conversations taped between November 1972 and
July 1973--over seven thousand
individual audio files--are freely available to the public. Representing the
fifth chronological
release of Nixon tapes ("Chron 5"), 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
Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California and College Park,
Maryland, a unit of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),
between 2007 and 2013. At the time of the creation of this page the complete
digitized collection, including te Cabinet Room tapes, is not available anywhere else outside of the reading room at
the Nixon Presidential Library.
When these tapes were
originally relased,
nixontapes.org issued an update to note the details of each
sub-release. These have been reproduced here for posterity.
These sub-releases compose the entirety of Chron 5:
-Chronological
Release 5.1: 11.5 hours
of tapes released by the National Archives on July 7, 2007;
recordings were made during November 1972
-Chronological
Release 5.2: 198 hours of tapes released by the National
Archives on December 2, 2008; recordings were made between
November 1972 and January 1973
-Chronological
Release 5.3: 154 hours of tapes released by the National
Archives on June 23, 2009; recordings were made between January
1973 and February 1973
-Chronological Release 5.4: 265
hours of tapes released by the National Archives on December 9,
2010; recordings were made between February 1973 and March 1973
-Chronological Release 5.5:
339 hours of tapes released by the National Archives on August
21, 2013; recordings were made between April 1973 and July 1973
Below is a complete list of all Chron
5 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
(Chrons 1-3),
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:
- November 1-30,
1972 (5.2m)
- December 1-31,
1972 (5.3m)
- January 1-31,
1973 (5.2m)
- February 1-28,
1973 (6.2m)
- March 1-31,
1973 (8.2m)
- April 1-30,
1973 (6.0m)
- May 1-31, 1973 (7.4m)
- June 1-30,
1973 (6.7m)
- July 1-12,
1973 (4.5m)
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- To continue, please select a Chron 5 subseries
from one of the following taping locations:
- White House Telephone
Conversations (WHT): November 3, 1972 - July 12, 1973 (link TBD)
- Camp David Study Table
(CDST): November 19, 1972 - June 21, 1973 (link TBD)
- Camp David Study Desk
(CDSD): November 14, 1972 - February 2, 1973 (link TBD)
- Camp David Hard Wire (CDHW):
November 13, 1972 - March 4, 1973 (link TBD)
- Executive Office Building (EOB):
November 8, 1972 - July 11, 1973 (link TBD)
- Oval Office (OVAL):
November 8, 1972 - July 12, 1973 (link TBD)
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