President Nixon and George Shultz's Telephone Conversations Assembled in Single Collection for First Time

Shultz one of few in history to have held four cabinet posts

For the first time, the complete telephone conversations between President Nixon and George Shultz, as captured by the Nixon taping system, are assembled here in a single, easy-to-use collection. These files include every phone conversation Shultz took part in, either placed or received, in which at least one party was using a telephone that was recorded as part of the Nixon taping system. That included telephones in the Oval Office, Nixon's suite in the Executive Office Building, the White House residence, and Camp David. 

This collection does not include conversations that Shultz initiated or received in other locations. This collection contains conversations from April 13, 1971 to June 9, 1972, which represents all such telephone conversations from the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA's) declassified and released portion of the Nixon tapes, even though the Nixon taping system contains telephone recordings through the spring of 1973 which will become available to the public at a later date. For more information on the timeline of future Nixon tape releases, click here. 

Shultz served in both the Nixon and Reagan administrations in a variety of roles, including as Secretary of Labor (1969-1970), the first Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1970-1972), Secretary of the Treasury (1972-1974), and Secretary of State (1982-1989). He continues to be very active as of this writing, and even recently served as an emissary to Russia for the Obama administration, along with former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and James Baker.

The participants are as follows:

P = President Richard Nixon

GPS = George P. Shultz